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Encyclopedia > Administrative regions of Venezuela

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
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