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title: "Venezuela — capital, area, population and currency"
description: "Venezuela: capital Caracas, area 912,050 km², population 28,516,896 (2025), currency Venezuelan bolívar soberano. Languages, time zones and calling code."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country/venezuela/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Venezuela

**Venezuela: Capital Caracas**

912,050 km² · 28,516,896 people (2025) · Venezuelan bolívar soberano

Angel Falls drops 979 m from the top of Auyán-tepui, the highest uninterrupted waterfall in the world — so high that in the dry season much of the water turns to mist before it lands. The tepuis are flat-topped sandstone table mountains, each an island of species cut off for millions of years. Lake Maracaibo sees more lightning than anywhere else on Earth, around 250 strikes per km² a year.

## The facts

- **Capital:** Caracas
- **Area:** 912,050 km² — 352,144 sq mi
- **Population:** 28,516,896 (2025)
- **Density:** 31.3 people per km²
- **Currency:** Venezuelan bolívar soberano (VES, Bs.S.)
- **Official language:** Spanish
- **Time zone:** UTC-04:00
- **Calling code:** +58
- **Drives on the:** right
- **ISO codes:** VE · VEN
- **Continent:** South America

## How it compares

- **By area:** 33 of 200
- **By population:** 53 of 200

> Population is the only figure on this page that dates — it is a 2025 estimate and will drift. Area, capital, currency, languages, calling code and driving side change rarely or never.

## Countries of a similar size

| Country | Area (km²) | Population |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Tanzania | 947,300 | 70,545,865 |
| Nigeria | 923,768 | 237,527,782 |
| Venezuela ← | 912,050 | 28,516,896 |
| Namibia | 824,292 | 3,092,816 |
| Mozambique | 799,380 | 35,631,653 |

## Common questions

### What is the capital of Venezuela?

Caracas

### What currency does Venezuela use?

The Venezuelan bolívar soberano (VES).

### How big is Venezuela?

912,050 km², or 352,144 square miles — 33 of 200 by area.

### Which side of the road does Venezuela drive on?

The right.

## Related pages

- [Tanzania](https://atoneplace.net/country/tanzania/)
- [Nigeria](https://atoneplace.net/country/nigeria/)
- [Namibia](https://atoneplace.net/country/namibia/)
- [Mozambique](https://atoneplace.net/country/mozambique/)
- [Brazil](https://atoneplace.net/country/brazil/)
- [Colombia](https://atoneplace.net/country/colombia/)
- [Argentina](https://atoneplace.net/country/argentina/)
- [Peru](https://atoneplace.net/country/peru/)
- [Chile](https://atoneplace.net/country/chile/)
- [Ecuador](https://atoneplace.net/country/ecuador/)
- [Bolivia](https://atoneplace.net/country/bolivia/)
- [Paraguay](https://atoneplace.net/country/paraguay/)

## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]