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Colombia)
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| Location
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| Capital
| Bogotá
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| Language
| Spanish
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| Internet TLD
| .co
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| Calling Code
| +57
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| Religion
| Roman Catholic 90%
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| Area
| 1,138,910 km2
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| Population
| 43,593,035 (July 2006 est.)
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| Government
| Republic; executive branch dominates government
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| Currency
| Colombian peso (COP)
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| Time Zone
| UTC -5
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Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia is a constitutional republic in northwestern South America. The only South American country with both a Caribbean and a Pacific coastline, Colombia is bounded on the northwest by Panama, on the northeast by Venezuela, on the south by Ecuador and Peru, and on the southeast by Brazil.
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Colombia also shares maritime borders with Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Bogotá is the capital and largest city. Population: 44,400,000. Colombia has the 29th largest population in the world and the second largest in South America, after Brazil. Colombia has the third largest Spanish-speaking population in the world after Mexico and Spain. The population is overwhelmingly Roman Catholic. About 60% of Colombia's population are mestizos, and some one fifth are of European descent. Indigenous peoples, who account for only about 1% of today's population, live on the edge of some of the major cities and in remote areas. About 15% of the people are of mixed African and European descent. Agriculture has traditionally been the chief economic activity in Colombia. Colombia has both torrid jungles and majestic, snowcapped mountains. Of the three principal Andean ranges, the Western Cordillera is of the least economic importance. One of Colombia's major cities, Cali, lies just east of the range, in the upper Cauca valley. The Central Cordillera has a towering chain of volcanoes and is the divide between the valleys of the Magdalena and the Cauca rivers.
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