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Bolivia keeps its constitution in Sucre
Sucre is the legal capital, while La Paz holds the presidency and the legislature The two cities have shared the role since the late nineteenth century, after a short civil war over where government should sit. Sucre keeps the Supreme Court and the written constitution. Its whitewashed colonial centre is a UNESCO World Heritage site. It sits in Mondo's world geography collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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Bolivia keeps its constitution in Sucre: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- Sucre is the legal capital, while La Paz holds the presidency and the legislature. The figure is taken from CIA World Factbook, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a world geography fact?
- Yes. It sits on the World Geography shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
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