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Colombia: map and facts
Colombia is in South America. It has about 53.4 million people (2025), the 28th largest population. It covers 1,140,619 km², the 25th largest by area. That is about 47 people per km². Its highest point is Pico Cristóbal Colón, at 5,730 m. The longest river on its map is the Japura, 2,820 km from source to mouth.
Facts
- Population: 53,425,635 (2025, World Bank)
- Area: 1,140,619 km² (2024, World Bank)
- Capital: Bogota
- Highest point: Pico Cristóbal Colón, 5,730 m (Gilbertson & Gilbertson's GPS surveys of national high points)
- Forest: 53.7% of the land (2024, World Bank)
Rivers
The longest rivers on the map of Colombia, with the length of each whole river (Wikidata):
- Japura: 2,820 km
- Negro: 2,250 km
- Orinoco: 2,140 km
- Putumayo: 1,610 km
- Magdalena: 1,528 km
- Meta: 1,000 km
- Cauca: 965 km
- Apaporis: 770 km
- Atrato: 644 km
- Mira: 400 km
Also on the map: Amazon, Caqueta, Guainía and Uaupés.
Mountains and landscapes
Its highest peaks:
- Pico Cristóbal Colón: 5,730 m (its highest point)
- Ritacuba Blanco: 5,410 m
- Nevado del Ruiz: 5,279 m
- Volcan Galeras: 4,276 m
- Alto de Buey: 1,046 m
Mountain ranges: Andes, Selvas, Cordillera Central, Cordillera Occidental and Cordillera Oriental.
Plateaus, plains, deserts and other regions: Llanos and Guajira Peninsula.
Land
Land cover seen from satellites (NASA MODIS, 2024): evergreen broadleaf forest 53.3%, savanna 24.5%, wooded savanna 13.3%, grassland 6.3%.
Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): plains 62.8%, mountains 20.5%, hills 9.4%, high mountains 5.4%, plateaus 1.9%.
Forests covered 53.7% of its land in 2024, down from 58.7% in 1990 (World Bank).
Neighbours
Colombia shares land borders with Brazil, Ecuador, Panama, Peru and Venezuela on this map.
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Sources
India’s boundaries are drawn according to India’s official position, simplified for small-scale maps (data: Natural Earth, India view). Each figure shows its year and source; some are rounded. Data release 2026.2.
- Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com), public domain. Boundaries follow India's official position (Natural Earth's India point of view). Terms
- GMTED2010 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (Danielson and Gesch 2011, USGS Open-File Report 2011-1073). Terms
- Friedl, M., Sulla-Menashe, D. (2022). MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. doi:10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.061. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL): UN Population Division, national statistical offices (2025 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Surface area (AG.SRF.TOTL.K2): FAO (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Forest area (% of land area) (AG.LND.FRST.ZS): FAO, FAOSTAT (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Wikidata (CC0): names, capitals, peak heights and river lengths, checked by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Landforms worked out by Make Me Smarter from GMTED2010.
- Some figures corrected by Make Me Smarter from published references: Australian Bureau of Statistics; Atlas of Canada; CIA World Factbook (archived); FAO; FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025; FSM Statistics; GeoNames; Gilbertson & Gilbertson's GPS surveys of national high points; INEGI (Mexico); Peaklist.org; PeakVisor; Government of the Pitcairn Islands; Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program; Statistics Finland; UN Demographic Yearbook; UN World Population Prospects 2024; Wikidata; Wikipedia.
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