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.

States o Venezuela

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.

Banner	Coat o Airms	States	Caipital ceety	Population (2010 est.)	Aurie	Region	Location
		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

Freemit airtins

• CityMayors feature