Bolivia is over 400 thousand square miles which makes it the world’s 28^th-largest country and the population is the world’s 85th most populated country in the world. This country has been a landlocked nation since 1879, when it lost its coastal department of Litoral to Chile in the War of the Pacific. Bolivia’s resources include much of the Amazon rainforests, highlands in the Andes mountains, and the world largest salt flats the Salar de Uyuni. Bolivia has the lowest GDP per capital in South America and yet the country is rich in it’s natural resources. It has the second largest natural gas reserves in South America and 50 to 70 percent of the worlds lithium. A major part of the population, mostly females are illiterate. Bolivia has major universities although currently there is a project for creating three indigenous universities, sonce education over the last 200 years has been stongly influenced by the Catholic church.