!!!Bolivia: Geography
||Location|Central South America, southwest of Brazil
||Geographic Coordinates|17 00 S, 65 00 W[{GoogleMap location='-17.0,-65.0' zoom='4'}]
||Area |''total: ''1,098,581 sq km\\''land: ''1,083,301 sq km\\''water: ''15,280 sq km\\[[__''Verified in 8 databases''__]
||Land boundaries|''total: ''7,252 km\\''border countries: ''Argentina 942 km, Brazil 3,403 km, Chile 942 km, Paraguay 753 km, Peru 1,212 km
||Coastline|0 km (landlocked)
||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''Rio Paraguay 90 m\\''highest point: ''Nevado Sajama 6,542 m
||Highest Mountains| Sajama  6530 m;  Illimani  6460 m;  Ancohuma  6430 m;  Illampu  6362 m;  Nevado Parinacota  6342 m\\[[__Verified__]\\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] \\[Important Mountains|Geography/America/Bolivia/Geography/Important_Mountains]
||Terrain|rugged Andes Mountains with a highland plateau (Altiplano), hills, lowland plains of the Amazon Basin
||Natural Hazards|flooding in the northeast (March to April) volcanism: volcanic activity in Andes Mountains on the border with Chile; historically active volcanoes in this region are Irruputuncu (elev. 5,163 m), which last erupted in 1995, and Olca-Paruma
||Natural Resource|tin, natural gas, petroleum, zinc, tungsten, antimony, silver, iron, lead, gold, timber, hydropower
||Land Use|''arable land: ''3.49%\\''permanent crops: ''0.2%\\''other: ''96.31% (2011)
||Climate|varies with altitude; humid and tropical to cold and semiarid
||Irrigated Land|1,282 sq km (2003)
||Renewable Water Resources|622.5 cu km (2011)
||Environment_CurrentIssues|the clearing of land for agricultural purposes and the international demand for tropical timber are contributing to deforestation; soil erosion from overgrazing and poor cultivation methods (including slash-and-burn agriculture); desertification; loss of biodiversity; industrial pollution of water supplies used for drinking and irrigation
||Environment - international agreements|''party to: ''Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands\\''signed, but not ratified: ''Environmental Modification, Marine Life Conservation
||Large Cities|__Due to difference in city rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Santa Cruz; El Alto; La Paz; Cochabamba; Sucre\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Santa Cruz de la Sierra; Cochabamba; La Paz; Sucre; Oruro\\\\\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] \\[Important Cities|Geography/America/Bolivia/Geography/Important_Cities]
||Geography-note|landlocked; shares control of Lago Titicaca, world's highest navigable lake (elevation 3,805 m), with Peru