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HONDURAS

GEOGRAPHY

Area

Total: 112,090 sq km

Land: 111,890 sq km

Water: 200 sq km

Climate

subtropical in lowlands, temperate in

mountains

Natural Resources

timber, gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, iron ore,

antimony, coal, fish, hydropower

GOVERNMENT

Chief of State

President Juan Orlando HERNANDEZ Alvarado

Head of Government

President Juan Orlando HERNANDEZ Alvarado

Government Type

presidential republic

Capital

Tegucigalpa

Legislature

unicameral National Congress or Congreso

Nacional (128 seats)

Judiciary

Supreme Court of Justice or Corte Suprema de

Justicia (15 principal judges - including the court

president - and 7 alternates; court organized into

civil, criminal, constitutional, and labor chambers)

Ambassador to US

Ambassador Maria Dolores AGUERO

US Ambassador

Ambassador (vacant); Charge d’Affaires Colleen A.

HOEY PEOPLE & SOCIETY

Population

9.2 million (July 2020 est.)

Population Growth

1.27% (2020 est.) Ethnicity

mestizo (mixed Amerindian

and European) 90%,

Amerindian 7%, black 2%,

white 1%

Language

Spanish (official), Amerindian dialects

Religion Roman Catholic 46%, Protestant 41%, atheist 1%, other 2%, none

9% (2014 est.)

Urbanization

urban population: 58.4% of total population (2020)

rate of urbanization: 2.75% annual rate of change (2015-20 est.)

Literacy

87.2% (2016)

ECONOMY

Economic Overview

one of the poorest countries in Latin America; traditionally

depended on the export of bananas and coffee and suffers from

highly unequal distribution of income, as well as significant

underemployment

GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)

$46.3 billion (2017 est.)

GDP per capita (Purchasing Power Parity)

$5,600 (2017 est.)

Exports

$8.675 billion (2017 est.)

partners: US 34.5%, Germany 8.9%, Belgium 7.7%, El Salvador

7.3%, Netherlands 7.2%, Guatemala 5.2% (2017)

Imports

$11.32 billion (2017 est.)

partners: US 40.3%, Guatemala 10.5%, China 8.5%, Mexico

6.2%, El Salvador 5.7% (2017)

as of September 2020