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Bolivia: Landlocked Bolivia
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Bolivia is known as the 'Tibet of the Americas', the highest and most remote of the countries in South America. It is a landlocked region with two Andean mountain ranges binding the Altiplano, or High Plain, between them. This plain has an altitude ranging from 9,000ft to 13,000ft (3,000m to 4,000m) and is where the majority of the population live.
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The geography of Bolivia is unique among the nations of South America. Bolivia is one of two landlocked countries on the continent and ... has the highest altitudes. The main features of Bolivia's geography include the Altiplano, a highland plateau of the Andes, and Lake Titicaca (Lago Titicaca), the largest lake in South America and the highest commercially navigable lake on Earth.
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Landlocked between Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Chile and Argentina, Bolivia is the highest, and in some respects the most isolated country in Latin America. It is ... one of the most culturally diverse. 80% of its 8.6 million inhabitants are descended from indigenous Amerindian peoples.
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Bolivia is the only landlocked Andean country. It has a largely indigenous Indian population that has preserved its native languages and much of its traditional way of life. It borders Peru and Chile in the west, Brazil in the east, and Paraguay and Argentina in the south
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Bolivia is today a landlocked nation. Until 1884 it had a coastline on the Pacific Ocean. That territory was surrendered to Chile in 1884 as a result of a truce that ended the fighting in the War of the Pacific.
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Bolivia is a landlocked country in Central South America. It is surrounded by Brazil to the northeast, Peru to the northwest, Chile to the southeast, Argentina and Paraguay to the south. more
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