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bolivia

UK/bəˈlɪvi.ə/US/boʊˈlɪvi.ə/
nounB1+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #8,727 of 15,258leans written

Bolivia is the high Andean country of La Paz and the great salt flats. Travel to Bolivia, born in Bolivia, the west of Bolivia.

La Paz is the highest seat of government in the world, at over three and a half thousand metres, and visitors take days to adjust to the air. The salt flat at Uyuni is the largest on earth and so flat that satellites use it to calibrate their instruments.

Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0

Definitions of bolivia

  1. 1nounboliviaA country in South America.B1+

    “Bolivia has no coastline, but it shares Lake Titicaca with Peru.”

bolivia is a country.

Where it comes from

  1. Spanish

    Bolivia

  2. English

    Bolivia

  3. English, today

    bolivia

Built from

  • ibar · Basque — valley

Bolivia Borrowed from Spanish Bolivia. Spanish Bolivia (“land of Bolivar”), from the South American revolutionary leader Simón Bolívar + -ia, from the Spanish - surname Bolívar, from Basque Bolibar, a village in Álava, Basque Country, Spain, from Basque bolu (“windmill”) + ibar (“valley”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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