Estado Zulia
State flag State Coat of Arms
Zulia State Anthem
Motto: none
Location within Venezuela
Created (given current status)	1864
State capital	Maracaibo
Area    •%	63,100 km² 6,92   (Ranked 5th)
Population    •%	3,620,200 hab. The anthem of the State of Zulia, “Riding the Waves” becomes official by Executive Order of August 15th 1909 A motto (from the Italian word motto, meaning witticism sentence is a phrase meant to formally describe the general motivation or intention of a social group Venezuela (ˌvɛnəˈzweɪlə) officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Spanish República Bolivariana de Venezuela) is a country on the Year 1864 ( MDCCCLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Maracaibo is the second-largest city in Venezuela after the national capital Caracas and is the capital of Zulia state These are ranked lists of the States of Venezuela sorted by population area and density (2007 est. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ) 13,87   (Ranked 1st)
Emblematic tree	The Cocotero (Cocos nucifera)
ISO 3166-2	VE-V
Governor	Manuel Rosales 2004 - 2008
Website: Gobernación del Zulia

Municipalities of Zulia

Estado Zulia is one of Venezuela's 23 states (estados). These are ranked lists of the States of Venezuela sorted by population area and density Below is a list of Trees that symbolise Venezuela and each state of the country See also National Symbols of Venezuela, List of trees. The Coconut Palm ( Cocos nucifera) is a member of the Family Arecaceae (palm family ISO 3166-2VE is an ISO standard which defines Geocodes it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to Venezuela. Manuel Antonio Rosales Guerrero (b December 12 1952, in Santa Bárbara del Zulia) is a Venezuelan politician and current governor of the "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Venezuela (ˌvɛnəˈzweɪlə) officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Spanish República Bolivariana de Venezuela) is a country on the Venezuela is divided into 23 states (estados, 1 Capital District (Distrito Capital and the Federal Dependencies (Dependencias Federales The state capital is Maracaibo. Maracaibo is the second-largest city in Venezuela after the national capital Caracas and is the capital of Zulia state In 2007 had an estimated population of 3,620,200, giving it the largest population among Venzuela's states. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. It is located in the northwestern part of the country.

Geography

Lake Maracaibo, the largest lake in South America, lies within Zulia. Lake Maracaibo is a large Brackish Lake in Venezuela at. It is connected to the Gulf of Venezuela by Tablazo Strait (55km on the northern edge South America is a Continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a The Lake Maracaibo Basin covers one of the largest oil and gas reserves in the western hemisphere. Petroleum ( L petroleum, from Greek πετρέλαιον, lit This page is about the physical properties of gas as a state of matter A long and mostly uninhabited border separates Venezuela from Colombia to the north and west from the Guajira Peninsula to the mountains of Perijá. Colombia (kəˈlʌmbɪə officially the Republic of Colombia () is a country in northwestern South America. Guajira Peninsula (Peninsula de La Guajira is a Peninsula in northern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela in the Caribbean sea. Venezuela's Andean states of Tachira, Mérida and Trujillo border Zulia State at the Southern end of Lake Maracaibo and finally the states of Lara and Falcón complete the boundaries of Zulia. The Andes form the world's longest exposed Mountain range. They lie as a continuous chain of highland along the western coast of South America. Estado Mérida is one of the 23 states ''(estados'' into which Venezuela is divided Estado Trujillo is one of the 23 states ''(estados'' into which Venezuela is divided Estado Lara is one of the 23 states ''(estados'' into which Venezuela is divided

The name Venezuela also comes from the Lake Maracaibo area. Spanish Conquistadors sailing into this area found the indigenous peoples living in communities of huts supported by stilts along the shores of the Lake over 500 years ago and promptly named this new territory "Little Venice" (Pequeña Venecia) or Venezuela. Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. This article is about the Spanish explorer soldiers of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuriesfor other uses see Conquistador (disambiguation A Conquistador Venice ( Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venesia or Venexia) is a city in Northern Italy, the capital of the

Municipalities and municipal seats

Zulia is comprised by 21 municipalities (municipios):