Bolivia

Introduction

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Bolivia bōlĭvˈēə, Span. bōlēˈvyä [key], officially Plurinational State of Bolivia, republic (2020 est. pop. 11,670,000), 424,162 sq mi (1,098,581 sq km), W South America. One of the two inland countries of South America, Bolivia is shut in from the Pacific in the W by Chile and Peru; in the E and N it borders on Brazil, in the SE on Paraguay, and in the S on Argentina. Sucre is the constitutional capital and seat of the judiciary, but La Paz is the largest city, political and commercial focus of the nation, and the administrative capital and seat of government.

Sections in this article:

Introduction
Twentieth-Century Bolivia
Independence and the Nineteenth Century
Early History
Government
Economy
Land and People
Bibliography

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