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Venezuela: map and facts
Venezuela is in South America. It has about 28.5 million people (2025), the 53rd largest population. It covers 912,050 km², the 32nd largest by area. That is about 31 people per km². Its highest point is Pico Bolívar, at 4,978 m. The longest river on its map is the Negro, 2,250 km from source to mouth.
Facts
- Population: 28,516,896 (2025, World Bank)
- Area: 912,050 km² (2024, World Bank)
- Capital: Caracas
- Highest point: Pico Bolívar, 4,978 m (Wikidata)
- Forest: 53.4% of the land (2024, World Bank)
Rivers
The longest rivers on the map of Venezuela, with the length of each whole river (Wikidata):
- Negro: 2,250 km
- Orinoco: 2,140 km
- Meta: 1,000 km
- Apure: 820 km
- Caroní: 765 km
- Cuyuni: 618 km
- Guarico: 525 km
- Ventuari: 520 km
- Casiquiare: 326 km
Also on the map: Cojedes.
Mountains and landscapes
Its highest peaks:
- Pico Bolívar: 4,978 m (its highest point)
- Pico da Neblina: 2,994 m
- Cerro Marahuaca: 2,832 m
- Mount Roraima: 2,810 m
- Pico Naiguata: 2,765 m
- Cerro Raya: 2,070 m
- Cerro El Copey: 957 m
Mountain ranges: Cordillera Oriental, Guiana Highlands, Cordillera de Mérida, Pakaraima Mountains and Serra de Curupira.
Plateaus, plains, deserts and other regions: Llanos, Guiana Shield and Lesser Antilles.
Land
Land cover seen from satellites (NASA MODIS, 2024): evergreen broadleaf forest 46.2%, savanna 20.9%, grassland 19%, wooded savanna 9%, deciduous broadleaf forest 1.5%, water 1%.
Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): plains 52.2%, hills 22.9%, mountains 20.4%, plateaus 3.8%.
Forests covered 53.4% of its land in 2024, down from 57.2% in 1990 (World Bank).
Neighbours
Venezuela shares land borders with Brazil, Colombia and Guyana 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.
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