Using quantum Monte Carlo simulations, results of a strong-coupling expansion, and Luttinger liquid theory, we determine quantitatively the ground state phase diagram of the one-dimensional extended Hubbard model with on-site and nearest-neighbor repulsions U and V . We show that spin frustration stabilizes a bond-ordered (dimerized) state for U ≈ V /2 up to U/t ≈ 9, where t is the nearest-neighbor hopping. The transition from the dimerized state to the staggered charge-densitywave state for large V /U is continuous for U < ∼ 5.5 and first-order for higher U . The one-dimensional Hubbard model, which describes electrons on a tight-binding chain with single-particle hopping matrix element t and on-site repulsion U , has a charge-excitation gap for any U > 0 at half-filling [1]. In the spin sector, the low-energy spectrum maps onto that of the S = 1/2 Heisenberg chain; the spin coupling J = 4t 2 /U for U → ∞. The spin spectrum is therefore gapless and the spin-spin correlations decay with distance r as (−1) r /r [2]. Hence, the ground state is a quantum critical staggered spin-density-wave (SDW). In the simplest extended Hubbard model, a nearest-neighbor repulsion V is also included. The Hamiltonian is, in standard notation and with t = 1 hereafter,The low-energy properties for V < ∼ U/2 are similar to those at V = 0. For higher V the ground state is a staggered charge-density-wave (CDW), where both the charge and spin excitations are gapped. The transition between the critical SDW and the long-rangeordered CDW has been the subject of numerous studies [3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14]. Until recently, it was believed that the SDW-CDW transition occurs for all U > 0 at V > ∼ U/2 and that it is continuous for small U ( < ∼ 5) and first-order for larger U . However, based on a study of excitation spectra of small chains, Nakamura argued that there is also a bond-order-wave (BOW) phase [10], where the ground state has a staggered modulation of the kinetic energy density (dimerization), in a narrow region between the SDW and CDW phases for U smaller than the value at which the transition changes to first order. Previous studies [6,7,8,9] had indicated an SDW state in this region. Nakamura's BOW-CDW boundary coincides with the previously determined SDW-CDW boundary. The presence of dimerization and the accompanying spin gap were subsequently confirmed using quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations [11,12]. The BOW phase now also has a weak-coupling theory [13].The existence of an extended BOW phase has recently been disputed. Jeckelmann argued, on the basis of density-matrix-renormalization-group (DMRG) calculations, that the BOW exists only on a short segment of the first-order part of the SDW-CDW boundary [14], i.e., that the transition always is SDW-CDW and that BOW order is only induced on part of the coexistence curve. However, QMC calculations demonstrate the existence of BOW order well away from the phase boundary [12].Although several studies agree on the existence of an extended BOW phase [10,11,12,13], the shape of ...