Territories
The largest country in South America by far, in both area and population, is Brazil. Regions in South America include the Andean States, the Guianas, the Southern Cone, and Eastern South America.
| Name of territory, with flag |
Area (km²) |
Population (July 2009 est.) |
Population density (per km²) |
Capital |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argentina | 2,766,890 | 40,913,584 | 14.8 | Buenos Aires |
| Bolivia | 1,098,580 | 9,775,246 | 8.9 | La Paz, Sucre |
| Brazil | 8,511,965 | 198,739,269 | 23.3 | Brasília |
| Chile | 756,950 | 16,601,707 | 21.9 | Santiago |
| Colombia | 1,138,910 | 45,644,023 | 40.1 | Bogotá |
| Ecuador | 283,560 | 14,573,101 | 51.4 | Quito |
| Falkland Islands (UK) | 12,173 | 3,140 | 0.26 | Stanley |
| French Guiana (France) | 83,534 | 221,500 | 2.7 | Cayenne |
| Guyana | 214,970 | 772,298 | 3.6 | Georgetown |
| Paraguay | 406,750 | 6,995,655 | 17.2 | Asunción |
| Peru | 1,285,220 | 29,546,963 | 23.0 | Lima |
| South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands (UK) |
3,903 | 0 | 0 | Grytviken |
| Suriname | 163,270 | 481,267 | 2.9 | Paramaribo |
| Uruguay | 176,220 | 3,494,382 | 19.8 | Montevideo |
| Venezuela | 912,050 | 26,814,843 | 29.4 | Caracas |
Read more about this topic: Geography Of South America
Famous quotes containing the word territories:
“For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a world into which I make occasional and transient forays only, and my patriotism and allegiance to the state into whose territories I seem to retreat are those of a moss-trooper.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Curiosity doesn’t matter any more. These days people don’t want to be transported to emotional territories where they don’t know how to react.”
—Hector Babenko (b. 1946)
“Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capitalism is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed.”
—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924)