Map of Bolivia

Bolivia is located in South America. Its territory lies in the southern and western hemispheres, centred near 17.0° S, 65.0° W. Bolivia is landlocked, enclosed on every side by its 5 neighbours — Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Peru — with no coastline of its own. Within South America, a continent of 12 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, Bolivia is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Landlocked Bolivia is surrounded by the following 5 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Bolivia covers about 1,098,581 km² (424,164 sq mi). That makes it the 27th-largest country in the world by area and the 5th-largest in South America, larger by area than 7 of the continent’s 12 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 11,365,333, the 85th-largest in the world and the 8th-largest in South America, accounting for about 2.6% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Bolivia has an average population density of about 10 people per km². Among the 12 countries of South America it stands 8th by population and 5th by area.

The seat of government is Sucre, and the official currency is the Bolivian boliviano (BOB, Bs.), and the main official languages are Aymara, Guaraní, Quechua and Spanish. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC-04:00.

Bolivia carries the ISO country codes BO and BOL, dials on the international calling code +591 and uses the .bo internet domain.

Bolivia shares its land borders with 5 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Brazil (capital Brasília, about 213,421,037 people), Argentina (capital Buenos Aires, about 46,735,004 people), Peru (capital Lima, about 34,350,244 people), Chile (capital Santiago, about 20,206,953 people) and Paraguay (capital Asunción, about 6,109,644 people).

By area, Bolivia is larger than 2 of these neighbours and smaller than 3 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 17.0° S, 65.0° W and opens at zoom level 4, framing Bolivia within South America. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Sucre. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Bolivia lies about 1,887 km from the equator, in the southern and western hemispheres of the globe. As a landlocked country, every direction from its borders leads onto neighbouring land rather than the open sea.

Bolivia keeps a single standard time zone, UTC-04:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit -04:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Bolivian boliviano (BOB, Bs.).

The official languages are Aymara, Guaraní, Quechua and Spanish, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +591 and websites commonly use the .bo internet domain.

In short, Bolivia is a landlocked country in South America, sharing land borders with 5 countries. Its capital is Sucre. Bolivia has a population of about 11,365,333 and covers around 1,098,581 km² (424,164 sq mi), ranking it 85th in the world by population and 27th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Bolivia.

The flag of Bolivia is composed of three equal horizontal bands of red, yellow and green, with the national coat of arms centered in the yellow band.

The flag of Bolivia is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.