.svg) Colombia borders with its neighbours, since 1810 | |
| Continent | South America |
|---|---|
| Area | |
| • Total | 6,672 km2 (2,576 sq mi) |
| Coastline | 3,208 km (1,993 mi) |
| Borders | Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Panama |
Colombia is located in the northwestern corner of South America, confined between the vast Amazon rainforest and the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and also crossed by the great Andes mountain range. Due to this territorial conformation, it has both natural and political boundaries; as a complement to the latter definition, there are the so-called borders. The country exercises its sovereignty within the territory comprised by these.[1][2]
Colombia has 6,342 km2 (2,449 sq mi) of land borders and, additionally, has maritime boundaries in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. Its continental territory borders five countries: Venezuela and Brazil to the east, Ecuador and Peru to the south and Panama to the northwest. The maritime boundaries are a little wider: Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Honduras, Panama, Venezuela and Jamaica in the Caribbean; Ecuador, Panama and Costa Rica in the Pacific.
- ^ Sociedad Geográfica de Colombia. "Definición de Límite". Retrieved 29 January 2018.
- ^ Sociedad Geográfica de Colombia. "Definición de Frontera". Retrieved 29 January 2018.