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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: 10,247,000 Catholics (86.5% of 11,842,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 613 parishes, 316 mission stations (1 with resident priest, 315 without resident priest), 144 other centres

Clergy: 37 bishops (16 diocesan, 21 titular), 1,150 priests (619 diocesan, 531 religious), 117 permanent deacons (113 diocesan, 4 religious)

Non-Clergy: 2,162 religious (144 brothers, 2,018 sisters), 80 members of secular institutes (6 brothers, 74 sisters), 384 major seminarians, 4,053 missionaries, 15,003 catechists