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Venezuela's states, capital district, and federal dependencies have been grouped into administrative regions since a 1969 decree on regionalization that institutionalized a process of region development. The regions thereby created have been successively modified until attaining their present shape. Map of Venezuela Venezuela is divided into 23 states (estados), 1 Capital District (Distrito Capital) and the Federal Dependencies (Dependencias Federales de Ultramar) that consist on a large number of Venezuelan islands. ...
| Administrative Region | Population | Area | States | | Andean | 3,046,427 | 65,000 km² | Barinas, Mérida, Táchira, Trujillo; Páez Municipality of Apure | | Capital | 2,628,981 | 9,446 km² | Miranda, Vargas, Capital District (Caracas) | | Central | 3,634,889 | 26,464 km² | Aragua, Carabobo, Cojedes | | Central-Western | 3,544,384 | 66,900 km² | Falcón, Lara, Portuguesa, Yaracuy | | Guayana | 1,383,297 | 458,344 km² | Bolívar, Amazonas, Delta Amacuro | | Insular | 712,626 | 28,930 km² | Nueva Esparta, Federal Dependencies | | Llanos | 899,423 | 141,486 km² | Apure (excluding Páez Municipality), Guárico | | North-Eastern | 2,721,334 | 84,030 km² | Anzoátegui, Monagas, Sucre | | Zulian | 2,983,679 | 63,100 km² | Zulia | Administrative regions of Venezuela |