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    Colombia is a sovereign state located in northwestern South America, with territories in Central America. It is ethnically and linguistically diverse due to influences from indigenous civilizations, European colonization, African slave trade, and immigration. Colombia has a long history, with human settlement dating back over 12,000 years and was later colonized by the Spanish beginning in 1499. It gained independence in 1820 and has experienced political violence and armed conflict but has seen significant security improvements since 2005. Colombia has high biodiversity and varied terrain, containing Amazon rainforest, mountains, grasslands, and both Caribbean and Pacific coastlines. It has a diversified economy and is part of several international organizations.

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    Colombia is a sovereign state located in northwestern South America, with territories in Central America. It is ethnically and linguistically diverse due to influences from indigenous civilizations, European colonization, African slave trade, and immigration. Colombia has a long history, with human settlement dating back over 12,000 years and was later colonized by the Spanish beginning in 1499. It gained independence in 1820 and has experienced political violence and armed conflict but has seen significant security improvements since 2005. Colombia has high biodiversity and varied terrain, containing Amazon rainforest, mountains, grasslands, and both Caribbean and Pacific coastlines. It has a diversified economy and is part of several international organizations.

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    Colombia is a sovereign state located in northwestern South America, with territories in Central America. It is ethnically and linguistically diverse due to influences from indigenous civilizations, European colonization, African slave trade, and immigration. Colombia has a long history, with human settlement dating back over 12,000 years and was later colonized by the Spanish beginning in 1499. It gained independence in 1820 and has experienced political violence and armed conflict but has seen significant security improvements since 2005. Colombia has high biodiversity and varied terrain, containing Amazon rainforest, mountains, grasslands, and both Caribbean and Pacific coastlines. It has a diversified economy and is part of several international organizations.

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    Colombia (/ kəˈlʌmbiə / ( listen) kə-LUM-bee-ə, /- ˈlɒm -/ -LOM-;[11] Spanish: [koˈlombja] (

    listen)), officially the Republic of Colombia (Spanish: República de Colombia (help·info)),


    [Note 1] is a sovereign state largely situated in the north of South America, with land,
    and territories in North America. Colombia is bounded on the north by the Caribbean
    Sea and the west by the Pacific. It comprises thirty-two departments, with the capital
    in Bogotá.

    Colombia is ethnically and linguistically diverse, with its rich cultural heritage reflecting
    influences by various Amerindian civilizations, European settlement, forced African labor,
    and immigration from Europe and the greater Middle East. Urban centres are concentrated
    in the Andean highlands and the Caribbean coast.

    Colombia has been inhabited by various American Indian peoples since at least 12,000
    BCE, including the Muisca, Quimbaya, and the Tairona, along with the Inca Empire that
    expanded to the southwest of the country. Spaniards arrived in 1499 and by the mid-16th
    century annexed part of the region, establishing the New Kingdom of Granada,
    with Santafé de Bogotá as its capital. Independence from Spain was achieved in 1819, but
    by 1830 the Gran Colombia Federation was dissolved, with what is now Colombia and
    Panama emerging as the Republic of New Granada. The new nation experimented with
    federalism as the Granadine Confederation (1858), and then the United States of
    Colombia (1863), before the Republic of Colombia was finally declared in 1886. Panama
    seceded in 1903, leading to Colombia's present borders. Beginning in the 1960s, the
    country suffered from an asymmetric low-intensity armed conflict and political violence,
    both of which escalated in the 1990s. Since 2005, there has been significant improvement
    in security, stability, and rule of law.[12]
    Colombia is the country with the second-highest biodiversity in the world,[13] and is one of
    the world's 17 megadiverse countries; its territory encompasses Amazon
    rainforest, highlands, grasslands, deserts, islands and coastlines along both
    the Atlantic and Pacific (the only country in South America).
    Colombia is the only NATO Global Partner in Latin America.[14] It is part of
    the CIVETS group of leading emerging markets and a member of the UN, the WTO,
    the OAS, the Pacific Alliance, and other international organizations.[15] Colombia's
    diversified economy is the third largest in South America, with macroeconomic stability
    and favorable long-term growth prospects.

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