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Patron Saints: Our Lady of Mount Carmel (July 16), Saint Francis Solanus

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Continent: South America

Capital: Sucre

Area: 1,083,301 km²

Population: 11,138,234

Former Name: Upper Peru

Neighbouring Countries: ↙ Chile , ← Peru , → Brazil , ↘ Paraguay , ↓ Argentina

Religions: Roman Catholic 76.8%, Evangelical and Pentecostal 8.1%, Protestant 7.9%, other 1.7%, none 5.5%

Languages: Spanish (official) 60.7%, Quechua (official) 21.2%, Aymara (official) 14.6%, foreign languages 2.4%, Guarani (official) 0.6%, other native languages 0.4%, none 0.1%

Ethnic Groups: mestizo (mixed white and Amerindian ancestry) 68%, indigenous 20%, white 5%, cholo/chola 2%, black 1%, other 1%, unspecified 3% ; 44% of respondents indicated feeling part of some indigenous group, predominantly Quechua or Aymara

Motto: La Unión es la Fuerza (Spanish) (Unity is Strength)

Area: 1,098,581 km²

Catholic Population: 10,531,000 Catholics (86.5% of 12,170,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 623 parishes, 300 mission stations (without resident priest), 144 other centres

Clergy: 38 bishops (14 diocesan, 24 titular), 1,074 priests (585 diocesan, 489 religious), 110 permanent deacons (105 diocesan, 5 religious)

Non-Clergy: 2,014 religious (140 brothers, 1,874 sisters), 80 members of secular institutes (6 brothers, 74 sisters), 366 major seminarians, 1,413 missionaries, 14,838 catechists