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