Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia (Spanish: República de Colombia),undefinedis a transcontinental country largely situated in the northwest of South America, with territories in Central America. Colombia shared a border to the northwest with Panama, to the east with Venezuela and Brazil, to the south with Ecuador and Peru. It shared its maritime limits with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti. Colombia was the only South American country which bordered both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

It is a unitary, constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The territory of what is now Colombia was originally inhabited by indigenous peoples including the Muisca, Quimbaya, and Tairona.

The Spanish arrived in 1499 and initiated a period of conquest and colonization ultimately creating the Viceroyalty of New Granada, with its capital at Bogotá. Independence from Spain was won in 1819, but by 1830 the "Gran Colombia" Federation was dissolved. What is now Colombia and Panama emerged as the Republic of New Granada. The new nation experimented with federalism as the Granadine Confederation (1858), and then the United States of Colombia (1863), before the Republic of Colombia was finally declared in 1886. Panama seceded in 1903. Starting in the 1960s until the Terran Ascent, the country has suffered from an asymmetric low-intensity armed conflict, which escalated in the 1990s, but then decreased from 2005 onward. Colombia is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse countries in the world giving rise to a rich cultural heritage. This has also been influenced by Colombia's varied geography, and the imposing landscape of the country has resulted in the development of very strong regional identities. The urban centres are mostly located in the highlands of the Andes mountains.

Colombian territory also encompasses Amazon rainforest, tropical grassland and both Caribbean and Pacific coastlines. Ecologically, it is one of the world's 17 megadiverse countries, and the most densely biodiverse of these per square kilometer. Colombia was a middle power and a regional actor with the fourth largest economy in Latin America, and was part of the CIVETS group of six leading emerging markets and is an accessing member to the OECD.

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Colombia's government remained neutral during the Terran WWIII, although documents discovered in 2195 OTT revealed that it was actually a puppet government controlled by the Venezuela though it's "Ambassador". Most of the former country is part of the Amazon Park, with exception of a strip 25 to 100 km wide along the Atlantic coast.