Honduras
Honduras (officially Republic of Honduras) is a country in Central America, with its capital at Tegucigalpa, and is home to roughly 10.8M people.
Spanish is the official language; the currency in circulation is Honduran lempira (L); people from here are called Honduran.
- »The Bay Islands sit on the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef, the second largest reef system in the world.
Honduras touches three neighbours: El Salvador to the southwest, Guatemala to the west and Nicaragua to the southeast. Directions run from one centre to the other.
Tegucigalpa was founded as a silver mining settlement in 1578, and its name is usually traced to an indigenous phrase about silver hills.
113,468 km² (43,810 sq mi), 101st largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Bulgaria.
Population 10,825,703, 89th of 198 on file. That averages 95 per km² (247 per sq mi).
The five stars stand for the five states of the old Federal Republic of Central America, in the hope they might one day reunite.