Outline of Venezuela

[1] It comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea.

The country borders Guyana to the east, Brazil to the south, and Colombia to the west.

Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, St. Lucia, Barbados, Curaçao, Bonaire, Aruba, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and the Leeward Antilles lie just north, off the Venezuelan coast.

Falling within the tropics, Venezuela sits close to the equator, in the Northern Hemisphere.

[2] Today, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is known widely for its petroleum industry, the environmental diversity of its territory, and its natural features.