Colombia is South America's only country with coastlines on both the Pacific and Caribbean. Home to extraordinary biodiversity, it is the world's top premium coffee producer.
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These figures are calculated from the data on this page and compared with the other 195 countries Beelad covers.
| Population density | 46 people per km² rank 139 of 196 (highest first); the average across all 196 countries is 60 per km² |
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| Share of world population | 0.647 % world total: 8,091,734,930 (UN, 1 July 2023) |
| Share of South America | 12.1% of its people, 6.4% of its land area |
| Area in square miles | 440,831 1 km² = 0.386 sq mi |
| Closest in size | Ethiopia (1,104,300 km²) |
| Closest in population | South Korea (51,748,739 people) |
Colombia is the only country in our list that uses COP.