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The Nations and Major Cities of South America

Nation
Capital
Population
Land

(square miles)
Pop.
Den-
sity
(per sq. mile)
Cities
with more than one million people
Argentina
Buenos Aires

36,265,890
1,068,298

32.45
Buenos Aires (12,960,976) 
Córdoba (1,148,305) 
La Matanza (1,111,811)
Bolivia
La Paz and Sucre

7,826,352
424,162

 16.89
La Paz (1,115,403)
Brazil
Brasilia

169,806,470
3,286,475

 49.49
São Paulo (9,842,059) 
Rio de Janeiro (5,547,033) 
Belo Horizonte(2,060,804) 
Brasília (1,673,151)
Chile
Santiago

14,787,781
292,259

 49.61
Gran Santiago (5,076,808)
Colombia
Bogota

38,580,949
439,734

 85.09
Bogota (5,237,635) 
Cali (1,718,871) 
Medellín (1,621,356)
Ecuador
Quito

12,336,572
109,483

 110.57
Guayaquil (1,877,031) 
Quito (1,401,389)
French
Guiana
Cayenne

162,547
35,135

 4.46
none
Guyana
Georgetown

707,954
83,000

 8.51
none
Paraguay
Asuncion

5,291,020
157,046

 35.99
none
Peru
Lima

26,111,110
496,224

 51.53
Lima  (6,414,500) 
Suriname
Paramaribo

427,980
63,039

 6.74
none
Uruguay
Montevideo

3,284,841
68,039

 48.07
Montevideo (1,246,500)
Venezuela
Caracas

22,803,409
352,144

 63.46
Caracas (3,435,795) 
Valencia (1,400,643)


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To cite this page:
Dowling, Mike., "The Electronic Passport to the Nations of South America," available from http://www.mrdowling.com/712-nations.html; Internet; updated Wednesday, May 1, 2002

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