Venezuela

Más allá de la capital, las principales ciudades son Maracaibo, Valencia, Barquisimeto — cada una un centro de cultura regional, economía e historia. Caracas sits in a narrow valley at 900 metres altitude just 40 kilometres from the Caribbean coast — a geography that produces a spring-like climate year-round despite its tropical latitude — and the city's 1960s modernist architecture, commissioned during the oil boom, includes Carlos Raúl Villanueva's University City, a UNESCO World Heritage Site integrating murals by Alexander Calder and Fernand Léger.

El idioma oficial es español, que refleja el patrimonio cultural del país y lo conecta con una amplia comunidad internacional. Internacionalmente, Venezuela se contacta mediante el código +58. Venezuela has won more Miss Universe and Miss World titles than any other country — a record 8 Miss Universe and 6 Miss World crowns — producing a beauty pageant industry with professional academies, nationwide televised competitions and a cultural status that makes pageant winners as recognisable as football players.

Venezuela comparte sus fronteras con Guyana, Brasil, Colombia. El tráfico rodado circula por la derecha, en consonancia con la convención de

La vida económica y cotidiana se rige por la zona horaria de UTC-04:00, alineando el país con sus vecinos regionales.

Venezuelan baseball sent Miguel Cabrera to the major leagues — a player who achieved the first Triple Crown since 1967 in 2012 — and the country has produced over 300 MLB players, making the sport not merely a pastime but an export industry, with academies funded by major league teams operating across the Llanos region.

Angel Falls in Canaima National Park drops 979 metres in an uninterrupted cascade from the top of Auyán-tepui, a sandstone tabletop mountain — the world's highest waterfall, fed by cloud forest so consistently mist-covered that the tepui summits constitute isolated ecological islands that evolved independently from the lowlands below.