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Road Traffic:right side
Electricity:
Voltage:110V
Frequency:60Hz
Plug types:A & B,
TV Systems:
System:NTSC M
DVD-Region: 4
Geography
Bordering countries:
Location:
Northern South America, bordering the Caribbean Sea, between Panama and Venezuela, and bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between Ecuador and Panama
Area:
total: 1,138,910 sq km
land: 1,038,700 sq km
water: 100,210 sq km
Climate:
tropical along coast and eastern plains; cooler in highlands
Terrain:
flat coastal lowlands, central highlands, high Andes Mountains, eastern lowland plains
Economy
GDP: $337.5 billion (2005 est.)
GDP growth rate: 5.1% (2005 est.)
GDP per capita: $7,900 (2005 est.)
Inflation rate: 5% (2005 est.)
Currency: Colombian peso (COP)
Exchange rates:
Colombian pesos per US dollar - 2,320.75 (2005), 2,628.61 (2004), 2,877.65 (2003), 2,504.24 (2002), 2,299.63 (2001)
People
Population: 43,593,035 (July 2006 est.)
Growth rate: 1.46% (2006 est.)
Religions:
Roman Catholic 90%, other 10%
Languages:
Spanish
Government
Capital:
name: Bogota
time difference: UTC-5 (same time as Washington, DC during Standard Time)
Independence:
20 July 1810 (from Spain)
Note: Information on Colombia was mainly sourced from CIA's World Factbook and may represent an American point of view. To learn more about Colombia, please visit one of the links below.
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