Colombia is the only South American country that has coastline on both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Colombia has the 35th largest Exclusive Economic Zone of 808,158 km 2 (312,032 sq mi).Ĭolombia usually classifies its geography into five natural regions, from the Andes mountain range, a region shared with Ecuador, Venezuela the Pacific Ocean coastal region, shared with Panama and Ecuador the Caribbean Sea coastal region, shared with Venezuela and Panama the Llanos (plains), shared with Venezuela to the Amazon Rainforest region shared with Venezuela, Brazil, Peru and Ecuador. The southern and eastern portions of the country are sparsely inhabited, consisting of tropical rainforest, and inland tropical plains that contain large estates or large livestock farms, oil and gas production facilities, small farming communities, and indigenous tribes with their territories. Colombia's population is not evenly distributed, and most of the people live in the mountainous western portion of the country as well as along the northern coastline the highest number live in or near the capital city of Bogotá. Ĭolombia has a land size of 1,138,910 km 2 (439,740 sq mi) and it is the 25th largest nation in the world and the fourth-largest country in South America (after Brazil, Argentina, and Peru). It is bordered to the northwest by Panama to the east by Venezuela and Brazil to the south by Ecuador and Peru and it shares maritime limits with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti.
The Republic of Colombia is situated largely in the northwest of South America, with some territories falling within the boundaries of Central America.
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