Honduras

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This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.

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Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.

Locator map of Honduras. Honduras is filled; surrounding countries are drawn in a dimmer tone and nothing is hidden behind them. No contested area from this source overlaps it. 2 parts of it are too small to draw at this scale and are not shown. View spans 89.9°W to 82.6°W and 12.6°N to 17.8°N. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m.

Honduras is filled. The 5 other countries reaching this view are drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.

Nothing is hatched because no disputed area in this source overlaps Honduras. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.

2 parts of Honduras in this source are smaller than a pixel at this scale and are not drawn. Nothing larger than that is missing, and they have not been enlarged to make them visible.

Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 15.2°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 89.9°W–82.6°W, 12.6°N–17.8°N.

Disputed areas

none listedNo disputed area in this source overlaps Honduras. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.

  1. News sources

    not yet researchedNo news source from this country is in Aletheia's registry yet. Nobody has assessed the media landscape here — that is a gap in our work, not a finding about this country.

    Know a news source for Honduras? Tell us where to look.

    A person checks who runs an outlet before we describe it, so nothing you send appears here straight away — and nothing appears at all until that check is done.

  2. Official alerts

    no source connectedNo official alerting source is connected for this country yet. Its own authorities may well publish warnings — Aletheia simply does not carry them.

  3. National legislature

    National Congress of Honduras ↗

    Wikidata P856 · authoritative source, but our checker could not reach it (many government sites block automated requests)

  4. Local time

    One time zone.

    The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.

  5. Conditions at the capital

    Right now in Tegucigalpa

    20°C / 69°FOvercastwind 2 km/h / 1 mph

    Checked 12 minutes ago

    Conditions at the capital, not across the country.

    Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)

    Tegucigalpa, 2026-09-20Sunrise 5:37 AM · sunset 5:46 PM12h 09m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit

  6. At a glance

    ISO code
    HNDuncited
    Driving side
    rightcited
    Mains voltage
    110 Vcited
    Capital
    Tegucigalpauncited
    Official language
    Spanishcited
    Plug types
    Type A (NEMA 1-15), Type B (NEMA 5-15)cited · letters are the IEC classification
    Official website
    presidencia.gob.hn ↗We could not reach this from our checker. Many government sites refuse automated requests, so this is not a report that the site is down.Recorded by us, not by the source: Presidency of Honduras — in the government's own namespace, recorded 2026-08-07. We have not tested whether it loads.No bare gob.hn homepage was found. DIGER's tramites.diger.gob.hn is the whole-of-government services hub. ⚠ This host's content read as older than the DIGER portals' and is worth re-testing.cited
    Tourism board
    honduras.travel ↗Not a government portal.

  7. Population and economy

    Population

    Population of Honduras: the UN's 2025 estimate is 11,005,850 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 21 more an hour. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.

    Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.

    Where this number comes from
    Base figure
    11,005,850 people
    For the year
    2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
    Compared with
    10,825,703 people in 2024
    Rate applied
    about 21 more an hour (180,267 a year)
    How that rate was found
    The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
    Carried forward
    0 days beyond the base figure's date
    Source
    UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
    The source's own definition
    The values shown are midyear estimates.

    THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.

    Population
    11,005,8502025
    GDP
    39,601,409,1032025
    GDP per capita
    3,5982025
    Life expectancy at birth
    73.0 years2024
    Exports
    35.0%2025
    Imports
    56.5%2025

    Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source

  8. In this country's own words

    Libre, Soberana e Independiente
    the state's official mottovia Wikidata (CC0)
    Founded
    1821
    National anthem
    National Anthem of Honduras

    Everything in this section is quoted, with its source. Aletheia does not write about a country's history, culture or religion in its own words — where there is nothing to quote, there is no section.

  9. World Heritage Sites

    2 World Heritage Sites

    1. Copán · inscribed 1980
    2. Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve · inscribed 1982

    Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO

  10. Emergency numbers

    • 198listed as: fire department
    • 199listed as: emergency medical services
    • 199listed as: police

    Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.

    Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.

  11. Explore this country

  12. Regions

    First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates

  13. Currency

    HNL

News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.

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