Full country name: Republic of Venezuela
Area: 912,050 sq km (355,700 sq mi)
Population: 21,051,000
Capital city: Caracas
People: 67% mestizo; 21% European descent; 10% African descent; 2% Indian.
There are approximately 200,000 Amerindians, remnants of a number of diverse
semi-nomadic hunter-gather societies.
Language: Spanish is the official language, but more than 30 Amerindian
languages still survive, predominantly belonging to the Arawak, Cariban and
Chibcha ethnolinguistic categories.
Religion: 96% Roman Catholic, 2% Protestant
Government: Democracy
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