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Road Traffic:right side
Electricity:
Voltage:220/230V*
Frequency:50 Hz
Plug types:A, C,
Note:*La Paz & Viacha 115V
TV Systems:
System:NTSC M
DVD-Region: 4
Geography
Bordering countries:
Location:
Central South America, southwest of Brazil
Area:
total: 1,098,580 sq km
land: 1,084,390 sq km
water: 14,190 sq km
Climate:
varies with altitude; humid and tropical to cold and semiarid
Terrain:
rugged Andes Mountains with a highland plateau (Altiplano), hills, lowland plains of the Amazon Basin
Economy
GDP: $25.95 billion (2005 est.)
GDP growth rate: 4% (2005 est.)
GDP per capita: $2,900 (2005 est.)
Inflation rate: 5.4% (2005 est.)
Currency: boliviano (BOB)
Exchange rates:
bolivianos per US dollar - 8.0661 (2005), 7.9363 (2004), 7.6592 (2003), 7.17 (2002), 6.6069 (2001)
People
Population: 8,989,046 (July 2006 est.)
Growth rate: 1.45% (2006 est.)
Religions:
Roman Catholic 95%, Protestant (Evangelical Methodist) 5%
Languages:
Spanish (official), Quechua (official), Aymara (official)
Government
Capital:
name: La Paz (adminstrative capital)
time difference: UTC-4 (1 hour ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
note: Sucre (constitutional capital)
Independence:
6 August 1825 (from Spain)
Note: Information on Bolivia was mainly sourced from CIA's World Factbook and may represent an American point of view. To learn more about Bolivia, please visit one of the links below.
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