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Country profilesBolivia

Capital: La Paz
Currency: Boliviano (BOB)
Time zone: GMT -4
International dialling code: +591
Driving: Right
Area size: 1,098,580 km²

At a glance / quick facts

Common Definition: Plurinational State of Bolivia
Language: The official languages are Spanish, Quechua and Aymara. Guarani is also spoken.
Region: Latin America
Latitude: -17.0000000
Longitude: -65.0000000
Religion: Mainly Catholic (95 percent), with syncretism in indigenous communities. There are Protestant and Jewish minorities.
Climate: Humid and tropical in the northern and eastern lowlands to cool and cold in the Andes mountains above 3,500 meters; rainfalls between November and March.
Ethnic Group: More than half of the population are Quechua and Aymara. Some 25 percent are of mixed Spanish and indigenous descent.

Humanitarian profile

Bolivia is a landlocked country in central South America, two thirds of whose people are indigenous rather than descendants of Spanish colonisers. While it is abundant in energy and mineral reserves, it is one of the region’s poorest countries with most wealth held by an elite, mostly of Spanish ancestry. The country has the second-largest reserves of natural gas in South America. Exploiting these has been a source of tension.

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