委内瑞拉玻利瓦尔共和国（西班牙语：la República Bolivariana de Venezuela），简称委内瑞拉，是一个位于南美洲北部的热带国家，为南美洲国家联盟的成员国。首都为卡拉卡斯。西与哥伦比亚接壤，东与圭亚那毗邻，南与巴西交界。海岸线包括北部加勒比海及东北部大西洋岛屿总长约2,800公里。委内瑞拉生物多样性丰富，为西至安地斯山脉、南至亚马逊盆地、东至奥里诺科河三角洲物种的生物栖息地。

Venezuela (/ˌvɛnəˈzweɪlə/ VEN-ə-ZWAYL-ə; Spanish: [βeneˈswela]), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Spanish:República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a federal republic located on the northern coast of South America. It is bordered by Colombia on the west, Brazil on the south, Guyana on the east, and the islands of Trinidad and Tobago to the north-east. Venezuela's territory covers around 916,445 km (353,841 sq mi) with an estimated population around 33,221,865. Venezuela is considered a state with extremely high biodiversity (currently ranks 7th in the world's list of nations with the most number of species), with habitats ranging from the Andes Mountains in the west to the Amazon Basin rain-forest in the south, via extensive llanos plains and Caribbean coast in the center and the Orinoco River Delta in the east.