Venezuela
Updated: Sep 9, 2022
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Country Name
Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
Location
Venezuela is a country on the northern coast of South America.
It consists of a continental landmass and many small islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It is bordered on the north by the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Colombia, Brazil by the south, Trinidad and Tobago to the northeast, and to the east by Guyana.

Capital
Caracas.
Reason for Naming the country
According to the most popular and accepted version, in 1499, an expedition led by Alonso de Ojeda visited the Venezuelan coast.
The stilt houses in the area of Lake Maracaibo reminded the Italian navigator, Amerigo Vespucci, of the city of Venice, Italy, so he named the region Veneziola, or "Little Venice".