BoliviaGeography
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Location:
| Central South America, southwest of Brazil
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Geographic coordinates:
| 17 00 S, 65 00 W
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Map references:
| South America
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Area:
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total: 1,098,580 sq km
land: 1,084,390 sq km
water: 14,190 sq km
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Area - comparative:
| slightly less than three times the size of Montana
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Land boundaries:
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total: 6,743 km
border countries: Argentina 832 km, Brazil 3,400 km, Chile 861 km, Paraguay 750 km, Peru 900 km
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Coastline:
| 0 km (landlocked)
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Maritime claims:
| none (landlocked)
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Climate:
| varies with altitude; humid and tropical to cold and semiarid
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Terrain:
| rugged Andes Mountains with a highland plateau (Altiplano), hills, lowland plains of the Amazon Basin
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Elevation extremes:
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lowest point: Rio Paraguay 90 m
highest point: Nevado Sajama 6,542 m
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Natural resources:
| tin, natural gas, petroleum, zinc, tungsten, antimony, silver, iron, lead, gold, timber, hydropower
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Land use:
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arable land: 2.67%
permanent crops: 0.19%
other: 97.14% (2001)
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Irrigated land:
| 1,280 sq km (1998 est.)
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Natural hazards:
| flooding in the northeast (March-April)
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Environment - current issues:
| the clearing of land for agricultural purposes and the international demand for tropical timber are contributing to deforestation; soil erosion from overgrazing and poor cultivation methods (including slash-and-burn agriculture); desertification; loss of biodiversity; industrial pollution of water supplies used for drinking and irrigation
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Environment - international agreements:
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party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: Environmental Modification, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection
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Geography - note:
| landlocked; shares control of Lago Titicaca, world's highest navigable lake (elevation 3,805 m), with Peru |
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