Paris Exhibition of 1889 - Venezuela - Two Towered stone buildings - ornate doorways. Part of Box 119 Boswell Collection. Officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Spanish: Rep???lica Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America. Venezuela's territory covers around 916,445 km2 (353,841 sq mi) with an estimated population around 33,221,865. Venezuela is considered a state with extremely high biodiversity, with habitats ranging from the Andes Mountains in the west to the Amazon Basin rainforest in the south, via extensive llanos plains and Caribbean coast in the center and the Orinoco River Delta in the east.