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This is a list of Colombian departments by population according to a general census taken in 2018, the 2005 census, and by estimates for 2020 made by the National Administrative Department of Statistics (Spanish: Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística). The five most populous departments contain almost half of the total population.
Very high human development 1 Bogotá, D.C. 0.804 High human development 2 Valle del Cauca: 0.782 3 San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina: 0.780 4 Atlántico: 0.777 5 Quindío: 0.775 6 Caldas: 0.769 7 Meta: 8 Santander: 0.768 9 Cundinamarca: 0.765 10 Antioquia: 0.763 – Colombia (average) 0.758: 11 Risaralda: 0.752 12 Boyacá: 0.751 13 ...
Distrito Capital y los Departamentos de Colombia ; Category: Unitary state: Location: Republic of Colombia: Number: 32 Departments 1 Capital District: Populations: 48,932 – 8,906,342 (Capital District) Areas: 50 km 2 (19.3 sq mi) (San Andrés) – 109,665.0 km 2 (42,341.89 sq mi) Government
The urban population increased from 29% of the total population in 1938, to 52% in 1964 and about 70% by 1990. Currently the figure is about 77%. The list of the most populated cities in the country only contains the population living in the urban area of the municipalities, according to the results of the 2018 population census. [17]
Colombia is divided into 32 departments. These in turn are divided into municipalities , though some receive the special category of district . However, there are also provinces , a generic name applied to provinces, districts, regions and subregions.
In the United States of Colombia they were called "sovereign states" (though they were not at all sovereign states in the modern sense of the word). In 1886, Colombia was reorganized into a unitary republic (i.e. present-day Republic of Colombia), by abolishing the states and dividing the country into somewhat less autonomous departments with ...
Colombia, [b] officially the Republic of Colombia, [c] is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuela to the east and northeast, Brazil to the southeast, Peru and Ecuador to the south and southwest, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and Panama to the northwest.
Map of Colombia Bogotá, Capital of Colombia Medellín Cali Barranquilla Cartagena Cúcuta Santa Marta. This article lists cities and towns in Colombia by population, according to the 2005 census. A city is displayed in bold if it is a capital city of a department.