Located on the Northern South America, bordering the North Pacific Ocean between Ecuador and Panama and bordering the Caribbean Sea between Panama and Venezuela
The ethnic groups that the population of Colombia includes are Mestizo 58%, White 20%, Mulatto 14%, Black 4%, Mixed-Black American 3% and Amerindian 1%. They mostly speak in Spanish, which is the official language. English, Italian, German, French are also used. People above 15 years old can read and write. 95.5% people are literate.
Colombia population lives under the Republican government. Bogotá, the capital is the center of Colombia life. People depend on natural resources like petroleum, natural gas, coal, iron ore, gold, copper, nickel, emeralds, hydro power etc.
9,000 sq km of the land is irrigated. So people can well depend on farming. The agricultural products of Colombia are coffee, cut flowers, bananas, rice, tobacco, corn, sugarcane, cocoa beans, oilseed, and vegetables. Forest products are also very useful to them. Population in Colombia is engaged in a number of industries like textile, food processing, oil, clothing and footwear, beverages, chemicals, cement, gold, coal, emeralds and many others. They depend a lot on the reservation of oil and natural gas.
Colombia population export products like petroleum, coffee, coal, nickel, emeralds, apparel, bananas, cut flowers etc. in return export industrial equipment, transportation equipment, consumer goods, chemicals, paper products, fuels, electricity etc.
