Honduras - Introduction

Here, let us take a look at some of the important facts about the country Honduras. Here, we have some interesting facts about Honduras. Honduras (officially: Republic of Honduras) is a country in Americas, precisely in Central America, with a population of about 10.8 Millions inhabitants today (2024-11-02). The capital city of Republic of Honduras is Tegucigalpa, and the official country TLD code is .hn. Honduras has cca2, cca3, cioc, ccn3 codes as HN, HND, HON, 340 respectively. Check some other vital information below.

Once part of Spain's vast empire in the New World, Honduras became an independent nation in 1821. After two and a half decades of mostly military rule, a freely elected civilian government came to power in 1982. During the 1980s, Honduras proved a haven for anti-Sandinista contras fighting the Marxist Nicaraguan Government and an ally to Salvadoran Government forces fighting leftist guerrillas. Hurricane Mitch devastated the country in 1998, killing about 5,600 people and causing approximately $2 billion in damage. Since then, the economy has slowly rebounded, despite COVID-19 and severe storm-related setbacks in 2020 and 2021.
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Honduras is found in Central America