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Colombia

The Republic of Colombia is a country in north-western South America. It is bound by earth, to the north and north west by the Caribbean Sea, to the east by Venezuela and Brazil, to the south by Ecuador and Peru, and to the west by Panama and the Atlantic Ocean. And is also bounded by sea with Costa Rica at the west, with Nicaragua, Puerto Rico and Honduras, at northwest; República Dominicana, Jamaica and Haiti at north.

Colombia geography

The western half of Colombia is dominated by the Andes, which split into three great mountain ranges, the Western, Central and Eastern Cordillera. The eastern half is characterised by lowland plains, often densily forested, which contain many rivers . Colombia controls the islands of Archipelago de San Andres y Providencia in the Caribbean and the other in the Pacific Ocean.

The local climate is tropical along both coasts and in the eastern plains, whereas the mountain ranges and highlands can be considerably cooler. Colombia's largest city is its capital Bogotá, other major cities include Medellín, Cali, Cartagena, and Barranquilla. Colombia is the only South American country to touch both The Pacific and Atlantic Ocean

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