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| Location | Central South America, southwest of Brazil |
| Geographic coordinates | 17 00 S, 65 00 W |
| Map references | south_america |
| Area |
total: 1,098,580 sq km water: 14,190 sq km land: 1,084,390 sq km |
| Area comparative | slightly less than three times the size of Montana |
| Land boundaries |
total: 6,743 km border countries: argentina 832 km, brazil 3,400 km, chile 861 km, paraguay 750 km, peru 900 km |
| Coastline | 0 km (landlocked) |
| Maritime claims | none (landlocked) |
| Climate | varies with altitude; humid and tropical to cold and semiarid |
| Terrain | rugged Andes Mountains with a highland plateau (Altiplano), hills, lowland plains of the Amazon Basin |
| Elevation extremes |
lowest point: rio paraguay 90 m highest point: nevado sajama 6,542 m |
| Natural resources | tin, natural gas, petroleum, zinc, tungsten, antimony, silver, iron, lead, gold, timber, hydropower |
| Land use |
arable land: 2.67% permanent crops: 0.19% other: 97.54% (2001) |
| Irrigated land | 1,280 sq km (1998 est.) |
| Natural hazards | flooding in the northeast (March-April) |
| Environment - current issues | 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, ozone layer protection |
| Geography note | landlocked; shares control of Lago Titicaca, world's highest navigable lake (elevation 3,805 m), with Peru |
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