Bogotá is located in the southeastern part of the Bogotá savanna (''Sabana de Bogotá'') at an average altitude of  above sea level. The Bogotá savanna is popularly called "savannah" (''sabana''), but constitutes actually a high plateau in the Andes mountains, part of an extended region known as the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, which literally means "high plateau of Cundinamarca and Boyacá". Bogotá is the largest city in the world at its elevation; there is no urban area that is both higher and more populous than Bogotá.