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Bolivia

[ buh-liv-ee-uh, boh-; Spanish baw-lee-vyah ]

noun

  1. a republic in western South America. 404,388 sq. mi. (1,047,370 sq. km). : La Paz and Sucre.


Bolivia

/ bəˈlɪvɪə /

noun

  1. an inland republic in central S America: original Aymará Indian population conquered by the Incas in the 13th century; colonized by Spain from 1538; became a republic in 1825; consists of low plains in the east, with ranges of the Andes rising to over 6400 m (21 000 ft) and the Altiplano, a plateau averaging 3900 m (13 000 ft) in the west; contains some of the world's highest inhabited regions; important producer of tin and other minerals. Official languages: Spanish, Quechua, and Aymara. Religion: Roman Catholic. Currency: boliviano. Capital: La Paz (administrative); Sucre (judicial). Pop: 10 461 053 (2013 est). Area: 1 098 580 sq km (424 260 sq miles)


Bolivia

  1. Republic in western South America , bordered by Chile and Peru to the west, Brazil to the north and east, Paraguay to the southeast, and Argentina to the south. Sucre is its constitutional capital and its largest city; La Paz is its administrative capital.


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Notes

The Bolivian government has long fought widespread drug production and trafficking in the country.
Simón Bolívar founded Bolivia in 1825 after winning independence from Spanish rule.

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Other Words From

  • an·ti-Bo·liv·i·an adjective noun
  • Bo·liv·i·an adjective noun
  • pro-Bo·liv·i·an adjective noun
  • pseu·do-Bo·liv·i·an adjective noun

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Example Sentences

Group A features Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay, and Group B includes Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.

Now, it hopes to produce the J&J vaccine for Bolivia through a compulsory license.

In 2019, public anger rattled governments in countries as different from one another as Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador and Haiti.

From Time

On her LinkedIn page, Moawad-Barrientos claims she followed the State Senate run with one for the presidency of Bolivia, her native country.

President Jeanine Añez Chávez of Bolivia is also scheduled to deliver an address this afternoon.

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In 2009, I was a young backpacker in Bolivia looking for adventure.

Its continued existence still sparks national debates on corruption, a broken correctional system and tourism in Bolivia.

And without Neymar, this Brazil team is no better than… Bolivia.

Castro was accompanied by only three other Heads-of-State: Nicaragua, Bolivia and Suriname.

After the war he escaped to Bolivia, from which he was eventually extradited to face trial in France in the mid-1980s.

Very shortly after the conclusion of the first war a second broke out between Bolivia and Peru.

It is said that from 1825 to 1898 more than sixty revolutions burst out in Bolivia, to say nothing of intermittent foreign wars!

Of the remaining countries of the north, Bolivia is, it scarcely need be said, by far the most important.

I learned that an altruistic group had offered reflecting parabolas to the people living at the Altiplano in Bolivia.

It is only in Peru and Bolivia that any prehistoric monuments exist.

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