Bolivia

Facts

What the numbers say about Bolivia

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 15.6× the size of Bolivia.
• Bolivia ranks 28th of 239 by area but only 79th of 237 by population: it holds fewer people than its size suggests.
• At 11 people per km², Bolivia is the 166th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• Bolivia lies at 17°S, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.1×.
• Laid out flat, Bolivia's main territory stretches about 1,470 km north to south and 1,300 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 1,099,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 1,087,000 km², to within 2%.

How Bolivia measures up

Bolivia holds 6.2% of the land area and 2.8% of the people of the 13 countries listed for South America.

Where Bolivia sits

• Bolivia's centre lies at 16.7°S, 64.7°W, in the southern and western hemispheres, about 1,850 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 23°S to 10°S, about 1,470 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Bolivia had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Bolivia would have 1.36 billion people. It has 12.2 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Bolivia would have 4.0 million people. It has 12.2 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 78.6 million.

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