Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Bogotá
- Region
- Americas, South America
- Population
- 53,425,635 (2025)
- Area
- 1,138,910 km²
- Currency
- Colombian peso (COP)
- Languages
- Spanish
- Calling code
- +57
- Internet domain
- .co
- ISO codes
- CO, COL, 170
- Time zone
- UTC-5:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- ###### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Colombia covers about 1,138,910 square kilometres. By area it ranks 27th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than South Africa and a little larger than Ethiopia. It shares a land border with 5 neighbours: Brazil, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Venezuela. Its centre lies at about 4° north, 72° west, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 53.4 million people live in Colombia (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 28th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 0.65 percent of the world's people. On average there are 47 people to each square kilometre. About 79 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 78 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Spanish. A person from Colombia is called Colombian.
Money and economy
The currency is the Colombian peso (code COP, symbol $). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 457 billion (2025), which is about US$ 8,562 for each person (2025).
Time
Colombia uses one time zone, UTC-5:00 (America/Bogota). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Bogotá | 7,674,366 |
| Cali | 2,392,877 |
| Medellín | 1,999,979 |
| Barranquilla | 1,206,319 |
| Cartagena | 914,552 |
| Cúcuta | 777,106 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in South America
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Falkland Islands, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Suriname. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.