{"id":9205,"date":"2022-06-16T04:00:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/?p=9205"},"modified":"2022-06-16T08:57:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T15:57:00","slug":"venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"
Venezuela, officially the\u00a0Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a\u00a0continental<\/a>\u00a0landmass and many\u00a0islands and islets<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0Caribbean Sea<\/a>. It has a territorial extension of 916,445\u00a0km2<\/sup>\u00a0(353,841 sq mi), and the population of Venezuela was estimated at 28 million in 2019.<\/sup>\u00a0The capital and largest urban agglomeration is the city of\u00a0Caracas<\/a>.<\/p>\n The continental territory is bordered on the north by the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by\u00a0Colombia<\/a>,\u00a0Brazil<\/a>\u00a0on the south,\u00a0Trinidad and Tobago<\/a>\u00a0to the north-east and on the east by\u00a0Guyana<\/a>. The Venezuelan government maintains a claim against Guyana to\u00a0Guayana Esequiba<\/a>.<\/sup>\u00a0Venezuela is a\u00a0federal<\/a>\u00a0presidential republic<\/a>\u00a0consisting of\u00a023 states<\/a>, the\u00a0Capital District<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0federal dependencies<\/a>\u00a0covering Venezuela’s offshore islands. Venezuela is among the most urbanized countries in Latin America;<\/sup><\/sup>\u00a0the vast majority of Venezuelans live in the cities of the north and in the capital.<\/p>\n