Honduras

Country name: conventional long form: Republic of Honduras
conventional short form: Honduras

local long form: Republica de Honduras
local short form: Honduras

Capital:: Tegucigalpa
geographic coordinates: 14 06 N, 87 13 W
time difference: UTC-6 (1 hour behind Washington, DC during Standard Time)
daylight saving time: none scheduled for 2012

Government type: democratic constitutional republic

Location	Central America, bordering the Caribbean Sea, between Guatemala and Nicaragua and bordering the Gulf of Fonseca (North Pacific Ocean), between El Salvador and Nicaragua
Geographic coordinates	15 00 N, 86 30 W
Map references	Central America and the Caribbean
Area	total: 112,090 sq km land: 111,890 sq km water: 200 sq km
Area – comparative	slightly larger than Tennessee
Land boundaries	total: 1,520 km border countries: Guatemala 256 km, El Salvador 342 km, Nicaragua 922 km
Coastline	Caribbean Sea 669 km; Gulf of Fonseca 163 km
Maritime claims	territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: natural extension of territory or to 200 nm
Climate	subtropical in lowlands, temperate in mountains
Terrain	mostly mountains in interior, narrow coastal plains
Elevation extremes	lowest point: Caribbean Sea 0 m highest point: Cerro Las Minas 2,870 m
Natural resources	timber, gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, iron ore, antimony, coal, fish, hydropower
Land use	arable land: 9.53% permanent crops: 3.21% other: 87.26% (2005)
Irrigated land	800 sq km (2003)
Total renewable water resources	95.9 cu km (2000)
Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural)	total: 0.86 cu km/yr (8%/12%/80%) per capita: 119 cu m/yr (2000)
Natural hazards	frequent, but generally mild, earthquakes; extremely susceptible to damaging hurricanes and floods along the Caribbean coast
Environment - current issues	urban population expanding; deforestation results from logging and the clearing of land for agricultural purposes; further land degradation and soil erosion hastened by uncontrolled development and improper land use practices such as farming of marginal lands; mining activities polluting Lago de Yojoa (the country's largest source of fresh water), as well as several rivers and streams, with heavy metals
Environment - international agreements	party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography – note	has only a short Pacific coast but a long Caribbean shoreline, including the virtually uninhabited eastern Mosquito Coast