Where is Honduras?

Where is Honduras Located?

Honduras location map shows the correct geographical location of Honduras. Honduras map shows that the Honduras is located in the Central part of North America continent.

Formerly, Honduras was popularly known with the name of Spanish Honduras in order to differentiate it from British Honduras. However, now British Honduras is an independent country and internationally known as Belize.

Government type of Honduras is Constitutional Republic along with five registered political parties. The economic growth of the country is slow and financial condition is not much good. In the recent past, Honduras was declared one of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund that facilitated it to have debt relief.

Honduras shares its international boundaries with Guatemala in the west, El Salvador in the south west and Nicaragua in the east and south east. Besides, at the south west Gulf of Fonseca and in the north the Gulf of Honduras are the large inlets of the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea respectively.

The climate of the country varies from tropical in the lowlands to temperate in the mountains region. Likewise, the central and southern regions are comparatively hotter and less humid than the northern coast of the Honduras.

Country	Honduras
Continent	North America
Where is Located	Honduras is a country located in the Central America
Coordinates	14.1, -87.216667
Capital	Tegucigalpa
Largest City	Tegucigalpa
Neighboring Countries	Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua
Administrative divisions	18 departments
Area	112,090 sq km
Population	8249574 2010 estimate
Official Language	Spanish
Currency	Lempira (HNL)
ISO Alpha-2 Code	HN
ISO Alpha-3 Code	HND
ISO Numeric Code	340
GDP	$35.697 billion 2011 estimate
Calling code	504
Time Zone	CST (UTC-6)
Internet TLD	.hn