World summary ---Venezuela

Summary information

Names
ISO3-Code	VEN
Continent	South America
Country Name	Venezuela
Administrative
Admin Level Used	2
Level1 Type	Entidad Federal
Level2 Type	Municipio
Number of Units	285
Population Estimates
Ref. Year First	1990
Ref. Year Last	1995
Pop '90 (estimated) ('000)	19,410
Pop '95 (estimated) ('000)	21,887
Pop '90 (UN) ('000)	19,502
Pop '95 (UN) ('000)	21,844
Difference '90	0.5%
Difference '95	-0.2%
Spatial Estimates
Area (sq km)	912,050
Resolution (km)	57
PopPerUnit ('000)	77
Resources
Web Site 1	http://www.ocei.gov.ve/
Web Site 2	http://gis.ciat.cgiar.org

Data sources Boundaries generated by the GIS facility of the Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT). Contact: Glenn Hyman Reference: Jones, P. G. and Bell, W. C. (1997) Coverage of Latin America Administrative Divisions. Version 1.1 Apr 1997 ÝÝÝ digital dataset. CIAT Cali Colombia Census population figures for 1990 and official estimates for 1995 from: El Censo 90 de Venezuela, Resultados Basicos, Oficina Central de Estadistica e Informatica, OCEI, Septiembre de 1992, Caracas. Similar information is available at the OCEI web site http://www.ocei.gov.ve . However, there are a number of new municipios for which no boundaries were available. Their population totals were added to the original municipios from which they were split off.

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