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Bogota is a flat city for the most part, with uneven land in the slope of the eastern hills (Cerros Orientales) and some other hills and hillocks. Its area is 300 kms² (more than 186 mi²) in its urban space, about 170 kms² (more than 105 mi²) of city outskirts and about 1.300 kms² (more than 807 mi²) of rural area. The population is about 8 million in the urban space and 9 million in the whole metropolitan area.
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It is divided in 20 localities, some of them larger and populated than some capital cities in Colombia. Although not official, Bogota's metropolitan area is conformed by the city and the towns which sorruond it, most of them in the Bogota's savannah (Sabana de Bogotá).
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The temperature is cold, although sometimes it varies. So cold that some Colombians coming from the warmer regions of the country call it “The Refrigerator (La nevera)”. Its air is less contaminated than the other large cities in the world's. The vehicle traffic is complicated, due to the huge amount of motor vehicles in the city, about 2 million, and the slow development of the road network. Incredibly, it does not have a metro train.
The people from Bogota are known for being cold, compared to the people from regions of the country. but they are warm like most of Colombians. Bogota's people are multicultural, conformed by emigrants from other regions of the country and the world. Many have been born in other places of the country or inmigrant descendants.
