Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Caracas
- Region
- Americas, South America
- Population
- 28,516,896 (2025)
- Area
- 912,050 km²
- Currency
- Venezuelan bolívar soberano (VES)
- Languages
- Spanish
- Calling code
- +58
- Internet domain
- .ve
- ISO codes
- VE, VEN, 862
- Time zone
- UTC-4:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- #### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Venezuela covers about 912,050 square kilometres. By area it ranks 34th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Nigeria and a little larger than Namibia. It shares a land border with 3 neighbours: Brazil, Colombia, Guyana. Its centre lies at about 8° north, 66° west, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 28.5 million people live in Venezuela (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 53rd most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 0.35 percent of the world's people. On average there are 31 people to each square kilometre. About 89 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 73 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Spanish. A person from Venezuela is called Venezuelan.
Money and economy
The currency is the Venezuelan bolívar soberano (code VES, symbol Bs.S.). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 99.7 billion (2025), which is about US$ 3,495 for each person (2025).
Time
Venezuela uses one time zone, UTC-4:00 (America/Caracas). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Caracas | 3,000,000 |
| Maracaibo | 1,752,602 |
| Valencia | 1,619,470 |
| Barquisimeto | 1,240,714 |
| Ciudad Guayana | 978,202 |
| Barcelona | 815,141 |
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, Ecuador, Falkland Islands, French Guiana, Paraguay, Peru. 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.