States o Venezuela

Template:Politics of Venezuela Venezuela is dividit intae 23 states (estados), 1 Caipital Destrict (Distrito Capital) an the Federal Dependencies (Dependencias Federales) that conseest o a muckle nummer o Venezuelan islands. Venezuela claims the Guayana Esequiba territory which comprises sax destricts in the independent naition o Guyana an aw.

Historical states

Prior tae the Federal War (1859–1863), Venezuela wis dividit intae provinces rather than states (see Provinces o Venezuela). The victorious forces wur supposed tae grant mair autonomy tae the individual states, but this wis no implementit.

Frae 1863 tae the early 1900s thare wur numerous territorial chynges, includin the merger an splittin o states, but frae then till the 1990s the states wur left unchyngit. States that existit durin this time includit Guzmán Blanco State (1873–1889). Oreeginally a renamit Aragua State, in 1881 the states o Miranda, Guárico, Nueva Esparta an the Vargas depairtment o the Federal Destrict wur mergit intae the state. This wis pairt o a territorial reorganisation reducin the nummer o states frae 20 tae 9, which wis reversed in 1901.

Recent years hae seen the creation o three new states: Delta Amacuro (1991), Amazonas (1994), an Vargas (1998).

States

Belaw is a leet o the 23 states o Venezuela. The states are leetit alang wi thair correspondent emblems, data an location.

States	Caipital ceety	Population (2010 est.)	Aurie	Region
Amazonas	Puerto Ayacucho	142,200	180,145 km²	Guayana
Anzoátegui	Barcelona	1,654,900	43,300 km²	Nor - Oriental
Apure	San Fernando de Apure	499,900	76,500 km²	Llanos
Aragua	Maracay	1,665,200	7,014 km²	Central
Barinas	Barinas	756,600	35,200 km²	Andean
Bolívar	Ciudad Bolívar	1,852,800	238,000 km²	Guayana
Carabobo	Valencia	2,531,000	4,650 km²	Central
Cojedes	San Carlos	340,300	14,800 km²	Central
Delta Amacuro	Tucupita	159,700	40,200 km²	Guayana
Falcón	Coro	961,500	24,800 km²	Central - Occidental
Guárico	San Juan De Los Morros	745,100	64,986 km²	Llanos
Lara	Barquisimeto	1,999,100	19,800 km²	Central - Occidental
Mérida	Mérida	895,800	11,300 km²	Andean
Miranda	Los Teques	3,010,900	7,950 km²	Capital
Monagas	Maturín	999,300	28,930 km²	Nor - Oriental
Nueva Esparta	La Asunción	508,900	1,150 km²	Insular
Portuguesa	Guanare	919,400	15,200 km²	Central - Occidental
Sucre	Cumaná	945,600	11,800 km²	Nor - Oriental
Táchira	San Cristóbal	1,225,300	11,100 km²	Andean
Trujillo	Trujillo	747,400	7,400 km²	Andean
Vargas	La Güaira	337,900	1,496 km²	Capital
Yaracuy	San Felipe	640,700	7,100 km²	Central - Occidental
Zulia	Maracaibo	4,020,200	63,100 km²	Zulian

Special status auries

Banner	Coat o Airms	Aurie!Caipital ceety	Population (2007 est.)	Aurie	Location
		Caipital Destrict	Caracas	2,085,500	433 km²
		Federal Dependencies	Los Roques	15,420	342 km²

Namin

Several states are namit for historical figurs:

Anzoátegui for José Antonio Anzoátegui
Bolívar for Simón Bolívar
Falcón for Juan Crisóstomo Falcón
Lara for Jacinto Lara
Miranda for Francisco de Miranda
Monagas for José Tadeo Monagas an José Gregorio Monagas
Sucre for Antonio José de Sucre
Vargas for José María Vargas

Several states are namit for naitural features:

Amazonas is namit for the Amazon River
Apure is namit for the Apure River
Aragua for the Aragua River
Barinas for the Barinas River
Cojedes for the Cojedes River
Delta Amacuro for the river delta o the Amacuro River
Guárico for the Guárico River
Portuguesa for the Portuguesa River
Táchira for the Táchira River
Yaracuy for the Yaracuy River

Ither namin oreegins:

Carabobo, namit for an ethnic veelage
Caracas, namit for the Caracas indigenous group
Mérida, for the caipital ceety, Mérida, itsel namit for Mérida in Spain.
Nueva Esparta ("New Sparta") is namit for the heroism shawn bi its indwallers during the Venezuelan War o Unthirldom, deemed seemilar tae that o the Spartan soldiers o Auncient Greece.
Trujillo, for the caipital ceety, Trujillo, itsel namit for Trujillo in Spain.
Zulia's name stems frae a vocal transliteration frae the Chibcha leid, bein the name thay cried an exotic blue-flouered plant kent as "Edging Lobelia" (Lobelia erinus).

See an aw

ISO 3166-2:VE

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