Colombia

[ kuh-luhm-bee-uh; Spanish kaw-lawm-byah ]

noun

1. a republic in northwestern South America. 439,828 sq. mi. (1,139,155 sq. km). : Bogotá.

Colombia

/ kəˈlɒmbɪə /

noun

1. a republic in NW South America: inhabited by Chibchas and other Indians before Spanish colonization in the 16th century; independence won by Bolívar in 1819; became the Republic of Colombia in 1886; violence and unrest have been endemic since the 1970s. It consists chiefly of a hot swampy coastal plain, separated by ranges of the Andes from the pampas and the equatorial forests of the Amazon basin in the east. Language: Spanish. Religion: Roman Catholic majority. Currency: peso. Capital: Bogotá. Pop: 45 745 783 (2013 est). Area: 1 138 908 sq km (439 735 sq miles)

Colombia

1. Republic in northwestern South America , bordered by Panama to the northwest, Venezuela to the northeast, Ecuador and Peru to the south, and Brazil to the southeast. Its capital and largest city is Bogotá .

Notes

Trafficking of marijuana and cocaine remains a problem in Colombia. With support from the United States, the Colombian government has attacked drug traffickers, but the country continues to be torn by civil war between left-wing and right-wing factions.

Its major legal crop is coffee.

Other Words From

• Co·lom·bi·an adjective noun

Example Sentences

The refugees come from Panama, Paraguay, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, and Puerto Rico.

From The Daily Beast

BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Most Latin Americans celebrated the rapprochement between the United States and Cuba.

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In Colombia, it was perceived more like a coincidence or perhaps even an opportunistic play by the FARC.

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Pan Am was granted landing rights at Camp Colombia, an army base near Havana.

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Now the question in Colombia, is, will a bilateral ceasefire be announced in coming days?

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His excellency proceeded to that town, and, under his auspices, the provisional government annexed the province to Colombia.

From Project Gutenberg

Colombia and Venezuela are of great importance, far more so commercially than the republics of the Andes.

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Here and there a pair of blue rock-pigeons (Colombia intermedia) is busy with eggs or young ones.

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Thus revolutions against his authority broke out in Venezuela, and even in parts of Colombia itself.

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Captain Cochrane in his Journal in Colombia, says that they obtain the poison from a small frog called the rana de veneno.

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