Honduras
Coordinates: 15°00′N 86°30′W / 15.000°N 86.500°W
Republic o Honduras República de Honduras (Spaingie) | |
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| Caipital and largest city | Tegucigalpa 14°6′N 87°13′W / 14.100°N 87.217°W |
| Offeecial leids | Spaingie |
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| Govrenment | Presidential republic |
• Preses | Xiomara Castro |
| Salvador Nasralla | |
| Luis Redondo | |
| Legislatur | Naitional Congress |
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• Declaredb frae Spain | 15 September 1821 |
• Declared frae the First Mexican Empire | 1 Julie 1823 |
• Declared, as Honduras, frae the Federal Republic o Central Americae | 5 November 1838 |
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• Total | 112,492 km2 (43,433 sq mi) (102nt) |
| Population | |
• 2018 estimate | 9,587,522 (95t) |
• 2022 census | 9,540,539 |
• Density | 84.72/km2 (219.4/sq mi) (128t) |
| GDP (PPP) | 2021 estimate |
• Total | 58,340 millones[2] |
• Per capita | $8,792[2] |
| GDP (nominal) | 2021 estimate |
• Tot | 26,325 millones[2] |
• Per capita | $2,655[2] |
| Gini (2018) | 52.1 heich |
| HDI (2023) |  0.645[3]medium · 139th |
| Currency | Lempira (HNL) |
| Time zone | UTC−6 (CST) |
| Drivin side | right |
| Cawin code | +504 |
| ISO 3166 code | HN |
| Internet TLD | .hn |
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Honduras (pronounced /hɒnˈdʊərəs/ (deprecatit template), Spaingie: República de Honduras, pronoonced: [reˈpuβlika ðe onˈduɾas]), kent officially as the Republic o Honduras, is a republic in Central Americae. It wis umwhile kent as Spainyie Honduras tae differentiate it frae Breetish Honduras (nou Belize). The kintra mairches Guatemala, El Salvador an Nicaragua.
Honduras wis hame tae mony important Mesoamerican culturs, maist notably the Maya, afore the Spainish invadit in the saxteent century. The Spainish introduced Roman Catholicism an the nou predominant Spainish leid, alang wi mony customs that hae blendit wi the indigenous cultur. Honduras becam independent in 1821 an haes syne been a republic, awtho it haes consistently endured muckle social strife an poleetical instability, an remeens ane o the puirest kintras in the Wastren Hemisphere. In 1960, the northren pairt o whit wis the Mosquito Coast wis transferred frae Nicaragua tae Honduras bi the Internaitional Coort o Juistice.[4]
The naition's economy is primarily agricultural, makkin it vulnerable tae naitural disasters sic as Hurricane Mitch in 1998.[5] The lawer cless is primarily agriculturally based whilk walth is concentratit in the kintra's urban centres.[6] Honduras haes a Human Development Index o 0.625, classifeein it as a naition wi medium development.[7] Whan the Index is adjuistit for income inequality, its inequality-adjusted Human Development Index is 0.443.[7]
Honduran society is predominantly Mestizo; houiver, American Indian, black an white individuals bide in Honduras an aa.[8] The naition haed a relatively heich political stability till its 2009 coup an again wi the 2017 presidential election.[9] Honduras haes the warld's heichest murther rate an heich levels o sexual violence.[10][11]
Honduras spans aboot 112,492 km2 (43,433 sq mi) an haes a population ower 9 million.[12] Its northren portions are pairt o the Wastren Caribbean Zone, as reflectit in the area’s demograpics an cultur. Honduras is kent for its rich naitural resoorces, includin meenerals, coffee, tropical fruit, an succar cane, as weel as for its growin textiles industrie, that serves the internaitional mercat.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ "Honduras". The World Fact Book. 5 Januar 2016. Archived frae the original on 15 Mey 2020. Retrieved 9 Februar 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 "Honduras Data Sets". IMF.
- ↑ "Human Development Report 2023/2024" (in Inglis). United Nations Development Programme. 6 Mey 2025. Retrieved 6 Mey 2025.
- ↑ "Mosquito Coast". Encyclopædia Britannica. Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. Archived frae the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 3 August 2007. Unknown parameter
|deadurl=ignored (help) - ↑ McSweeney, Kendra, et al. "Climate-Related Disaster Opens a Window of Opportunity for Rural Poor in Northeastern Honduras." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 108, no. 13, 2011, pp. 5203–5208. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41125677.
- ↑ Merrill, Tim, ed. (1995). "War with El Salvador". Honduras. Library of Congress Country Studies. Retrieved 9 Februar 2016.
- 1 2 "Human Development Report 2016: Human Development for Everyone" (PDF). Archived frae the original (PDF) on 25 Februar 2021.
- ↑ "The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency". www.cia.gov (in Inglis). Archived frae the original on 15 Mey 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ↑ Ruhl, J. Mark. "Agrarian Structure and Political Stability in Honduras." Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, vol. 26, no. 1, 1984, pp. 33–68. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/165506.
- ↑ Parkinson, Charles (21 Apryle 2014). "Latin America is World's Most Violent Region: UN". InSight Crime. Retrieved 9 Februar 2016.
- ↑ Hawkins, Darren, and Melissa Humes. "Human Rights and Domestic Violence." Political Science Quarterly, vol. 117, no. 2, 2002, pp. 231–257. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/798182.
- ↑ "World Population Prospects: The 2017 Revision". ESA.UN.org (custom data acquired via website). United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
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