Bolivia
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Coordinates: 
16°42′43″S 64°39′58″W
| Plurinational State of Bolivia Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia (Spanish) Tetã Hetãvoregua Mborivia (Guarani) Wuliwya Suyu (Aymara) Puliwya Mamallaqta (Quechua) | |
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| FlagCoat of arms | |
| Motto: “La Unión es la Fuerza” (Spanish) “Unity is Strength”[1] | |
| Anthem: “Himno Nacional de Bolivia” (Spanish) | |
| Dual flag Wiphala | |
| Location of Bolivia (dark green)in South America (grey) | |
| Capital | Sucre (constitutional and judicial) La Paz (executive and legislative) |
| Largest city | Santa Cruz de la Sierra17°48′S 63°10′W |
| Official languages[2] | SpanishQuechuaAymaraGuaraniand 33 others (all Indigenous languages) |
| Ethnic groups (2009[3]) | 68% Mestizo (mixed Native and White)20% Native Bolivian5% White Bolivian2% Cholo1% Afro-Bolivian1% Others3% Unspecified |
| Religion (2018)[4] | 88.9% Christianity —70.0% Roman Catholic —17.2% Protestant —1.7% Other Christian 9.3% No religion 1.2% Other religions 0.6% No answer |
| Demonym(s) | Bolivian |
| Government | Unitary presidential constitutional republic |
| • President | Luis Arce |
| • Vice President | David Choquehuanca |
| Legislature | Plurinational Legislative Assembly |
| • Upper house | Chamber of Senators |
| • Lower house | Chamber of Deputies |
| Independence from Spain | |
| • Declared | 6 August 1825 |
| • Recognized | 21 July 1847 |
| • Admitted to the United Nations | 14 November 1945 |
| • Current constitution | 7 February 2009 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1,098,581 km2 (424,164 sq mi) (27th) |
| • Water (%) | 1.29 |
| Population | |
| • 2019[5] estimate | 11,428,245 (83rd) |
| • Density | 10.4/km2 (26.9/sq mi) (224th) |
| GDP (PPP) | 2019 estimate |
| • Total | $89.018 billion[6] (88th) |
| • Per capita | $7,790[6] (123rd) |
| GDP (nominal) | 2019 estimate |
| • Total | $40.687 billion[6] (90th) |
| • Per capita | $3,823[6] (117th) |
| Gini (2018) |  42.2[7]medium |
| HDI (2019) |  0.718[8]high · 107th |
| Currency | Boliviano (BOB) |
| Time zone | UTC−4 (BOT) |
| Date format | dd/mm/yyyy |
| Driving side | right |
| Calling code | +591 |
| ISO 3166 code | BO |
| Internet TLD | .bo |
| ^ While Sucre is the constitutional capital, La Paz is the seat of government and the executive capital. See below. |
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Bolivia[a] /bəˈlɪviə/ (listen), officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia,[b][9][10] is a landlocked country located in western-central South America. The constitutional capital is Sucre, while the seat of government and executive capital is La Paz. The largest city and principal industrial center is Santa Cruz de la Sierra, located on the Llanos Orientales (tropical lowlands), a mostly flat region in the east of the country.
The sovereign state of Bolivia is a constitutionally unitary state, divided into nine departments. Its geography varies from the peaks of the Andes in the West, to the Eastern Lowlands, situated within the Amazon basin. It is bordered to the north and east by Brazil, to the southeast by Paraguay, to the south by Argentina, to the southwest by Chile, and to the northwest by Peru. One-third of the country is within the Andean mountain range. With 1,098,581 km2 (424,164 sq mi) of area, Bolivia is the fifth largest country in South America, after Brazil, Argentina, Peru, and Colombia (and alongside Paraguay, one of the only two landlocked countries in the Americas), the 27th largest in the world, the largest landlocked country in the Southern Hemisphere and the world’s seventh largest landlocked country, after Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Chad, Niger, Mali and Ethiopia.