Honduras
country
Tegucigalpa
capital city
Spanish
language(s)
HNL
currency
112,090 km²
area
6,975,204
population
62.23 people/km²
population density
Honduras
Regions of Honduras
- Departamento de Atlántida
- Departamento de Choluteca
- Departamento de Colón
- Departamento de Comayagua
- Departamento de Copán
- Departamento de Cortés
- Departamento de El Paraíso
- Departamento de Gracias a Dios
- Departamento de Intibucá
- Departamento de Islas de la Bahía
- Departamento de Lempira
- Departamento de Ocotepeque
- Departamento de Olancho
- Departamento de Santa Bárbara
- Departamento de Valle
- Departamento de Yoro
- Departmento de Francisco Morazán
- Departmento de La Paz
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Honduras description
Honduras in Spanish, República de Honduras Spanish pronunciation: [re̞'puβ̞lika ð̞e̞ õ̞n̪ˈd̞uɾas]) is a democratic republic in Central America. It was formerly known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras (now Belize). The country is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras, a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea. Honduras borders the Caribbean Sea on the north coast and the Pacific Ocean on the south through the Gulf of Fonseca. The climate varies from tropical in the lowlands to temperate in the mountains. The central and southern regions are relatively hotter and less humid than the northern coast. The Honduran territory consists mainly of mountains (~81%), but there are narrow plains along the coasts, a large undeveloped lowland jungle La Mosquitia region in the northeast, and the heavily populated lowland Sula valley in the northwest. In La Mosquitia, lies the UNESCO world-heritage site Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, with the Coco River which divides the country from Nicaragua. Natural resources include timber, gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, iron ore, antimony, coal, fish, shrimp, and hydropower. The Islas de la Bahía and the Swan Islands (all off the north coast) are part of Honduras. Misteriosa Bank and Rosario Bank, 130 to 150 km (80-93 miles) north of the Swan Islands, fall within the EEZ of Honduras.
