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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 |
|
32.45
|
Buenos Aires (12,960,976)
Córdoba (1,148,305)
La Matanza (1,111,811) |
Bolivia
La Paz and Sucre |
|
16.89
|
La
Paz (1,115,403) |
Brazil
Brasilia |
|
49.49
|
São
Paulo (9,842,059)
Rio de Janeiro (5,547,033)
Belo Horizonte(2,060,804)
Brasília
(1,673,151) |
Chile
Santiago |
|
49.61
|
Gran Santiago (5,076,808) |
Colombia
Bogota |
|
85.09
|
Bogota (5,237,635)
Cali (1,718,871)
Medellín (1,621,356) |
Ecuador
Quito |
|
110.57
|
Guayaquil (1,877,031)
Quito (1,401,389) |
French
Guiana
Cayenne |
|
4.46
|
none |
Guyana
Georgetown |
|
8.51
|
none |
Paraguay
Asuncion |
|
35.99
|
none |
Peru
Lima |
|
51.53
|
Lima (6,414,500) |
Suriname
Paramaribo |
|
6.74
|
none |
Uruguay
Montevideo |
|
48.07
|
Montevideo (1,246,500) |
Venezuela
Caracas |
|
63.46
|
Caracas (3,435,795)
Valencia (1,400,643) |
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