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Definition: Honduras |
HondurasNoun1. A republic in Central America; achieved independence from Spain in 1821; an early center of Mayan culture. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Honduras" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Honduras is a nation of northern Central America, bordered to the north by Guatemala and El Salvador, to the south by Nicaragua, to the west by the Pacific Ocean and to the east by the Gulf of Honduras and the Caribbean Sea. The nation of Belize (formerly "British Honduras") is some 75 km away across the Bay of Honduras at the two nation's closest points.
República de Honduras
coat of arms (In Detail) (Full size) National motto: Official language Spanish Capital Tegucigalpa Capital's coordinates 14° 6' N, 87° 13' W
President Ricardo Maduro Area
- Total
- % water
Ranked 101th
112,090 km²
xx% / NegligiblePopulation
- Total (2000)
- Density96th
6,249,598
xxx/km²
Independence
- Declared
- Recognised(from Spain)
1821
1823
Currency Lempira
Time zone UTC -6 (DST, yes or not)
National anthem Tu bandera es un lampo de cielo
Internet TLD .HN
Calling Code 504
History
Main article: History of HondurasPart of Spain's vast empire in the New World, Honduras became a state of the nation of Central America in 1821, and became an independent republic at the demise of the union in 1840.
After two and one-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 Nicaraguan government and an ally to Salvadoran government forces fighting against leftist guerrillas.
Politics
Main article: Politics of Honduras
Departments
Main article: Departments of HondurasHonduras is divided into 18 departments:
- Atlántida
- Choluteca
- Colón
- Comayagua
- Copán
- Cortés
- El Paraíso
- Francisco Morazán
- Gracias a Dios
- Intibucá
- Islas de la Bahía
- La Paz
- Lempira
- Ocotepeque
- Olancho
- Santa Bárbara
- Valle
- Yoro
Geography
Main article: Geography of Honduras
Honduras borders the Caribbean Sea and North Pacific Ocean. The climate varies from subtropical in lowlands to temperate in mountains.
Honduran terrain consists mainly of mountains, but there are narrow plains along the coasts.
Natural resources include: timber, gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, iron ore, antimony, coal, fish, hydropower
Economy
Main article: Economy of HondurasHonduras spent 1999 primarily recovering from Hurricane Mitch, which killed more than 5,000 people and caused about $3 billion in damage. Although it is slated to receive about $2.76 billion in international aid, the economy shrank 3% with widening current account and fiscal deficits in 1999. It nevertheless met most of its macroeconomic targets. Honduras may also get relief from its $4.4 billion external debt under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative.
Demographics
Main article: Demographics of HondurasThe population of Honduras is predominantly of Mestizo decent and Roman Catholic faith.
Culture
Main article: Culture of Honduras
Miscellaneous topics
Note: Some of these articles are based on text from the CIA World Factbook 2000 and the U.S. Department of State website.
- List of places in Honduras
- Politics of Honduras
- Communications in Honduras
- Transportation in Honduras
- Military of Honduras
- Foreign relations of Honduras
Countries of the world | North America
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Honduras."
Synonym: HondurasSynonym: Republic of Honduras (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Honduras |
| English words defined with "Honduras": centavo ♦ Honduran, Honduran capital, Honduran monetary unit ♦ lempira ♦ Palenque ♦ San Pedro Sula, Second World War ♦ Tegucigalpa ♦ World War II. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Honduras": Central American Common Market. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Honduras" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (Honduras), Czech (Honduras), Dutch (Honduras), French (Honduras), German (Honduras, Honduras (hn)), Hungarian (Honduras), Italian (Honduras), Papiamen (Honduras), Portuguese (honduras, Republic of Honduras), Serbo-Croatian (honduras), Spanish (Honduras), Turkish (Honduras). |
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Lyrics | I'm hiding in Honduras (Lawyers, Guns And Money; performing artist: Warren Zevon; writing credit: Warren Zevon) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Appointment in Honduras (1953) The Honduras Hurricane (1938) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Hurricane Mitch approaching Honduras on 1998 October 26, 13:15 UT. Credit: NASA. |  | At astro station on Honduras - Guatemala border L. to R. - Honduras commissioner, Joseph Lushene, recorder Recorder later died of malaria Astro party of Joseph Lushene. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Station Eskimo on Honduras - Guatemala border Border determination a combination of astro and triangulation work Astro party of Joseph Lushene. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Guards accompanying Guatemala - Honduras boundary surveyors Astro party of Joseph Lushene. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Sponge on a deep reef in the British Honduras. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | Guanajo, British Honduras, Caribbean Sea 1987 August. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
 | "Blown down" in Honduras on a United Fruit Company Farm / Unifruitco. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Five men with handcar alongside train of the Tela Railroad Co., Honduras. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Pan American Highway, as it runs thru El Salvador from Guatemala to Honduras / C.I.A.A. photo. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Cycloramic birds-eye views of Belize, British Honduras. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Chagas disease is locally transmitted in Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela. (references) | |
Business | A "major" market is defined as a country where Honduras represents a substantially large share of either imports or exports. (references) | |
From these figures, rankings are calculated to allow managers to prioritize Honduras compared to other major country markets. (references) | ||
GENOR plans to upgrade its generating capacity to 80 MW by mid 2001 in order to supply electricity to large users in neighboring Honduras. (references) | ||
Economic History | Honduras | Harwood Honduras Company, S. de R.L. (references) |
Honduras | Tiburcio Carias Andino controlled Honduras. (references) | |
Honduras | However, milled rice is also imported into Honduras. (references) | |
Political Economy | Honduras | A republic since 1821, Honduras has a history of political instability and military rule. (references) |
HONDURAS | On July 12, 2001, a Bilateral Investment Treaty between the United States and Honduras went into force. (references) | |
HONDURAS | Well-known trademarks are protected under the Pan American Convention (1927), to which Honduras is a party. (references) | |
Political Rights | Honduras | Any citizen born in Honduras or abroad of Honduran parentage may hold office, except for members of the clergy, the armed forces, and the police. (references) |
Trade | Honduras | Legally, products cannot be imported into Honduras with just the standard U.S. label. (references) |
Honduras | Overall, the new legislation is a major step toward modernizing financial intermediation in Honduras. (references) | |
Travel | Honduras | Spanish is the official language of Honduras. (references) |
Honduras | The security situation in Honduras requires caution. (references) | |
Honduras | Additionally, telex service is extensively used in Honduras. (references) | |
Worker Rights | El Salvador | The majority of trafficked victims transiting El Salvador are from Nicaragua, Honduras, and South America. (references) |
Honduras | However, in 2000 the Government inaugurated two centers in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula to assist citizens deported from other countries to relocate in Honduras. (references) | |
Canada | These persons come primarily from East Asia (especially China and Korea; also Malaysia), Eastern Europe, Russia, Latin America (including Mexico, Honduras, and Haiti), and South Africa. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Honduras held a free election for installation of a constituent assembly. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Honduras" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 98.58% of the time. "Honduras" is used about 211 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 98.58% | 208 | 21,075 |
| Noun (plural) | 1.42% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 211 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Honduras": british honduras ♦ honduras mahogany ♦ Honduras rosewood ♦ Republic of Honduras. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Honduras": honduras-based, Honduras-ei, Honduras-el, honduras-style. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
honduras | 4,759 | futbol de honduras | 51 |
roatan honduras | 505 | flag of honduras | 51 |
honduras hotel | 402 | travel to honduras | 51 |
tegucigalpa honduras | 323 | de honduras la tribuna | 49 |
san pedro sula honduras | 301 | com honduras | 46 |
honduras newspaper | 254 | tela honduras | 46 |
honduras map | 213 | bay island honduras | 43 |
la prensa honduras | 176 | honduras history | 41 |
de honduras periodicos | 163 | de historia honduras | 37 |
de honduras la prensa | 123 | la ceiba honduras | 36 |
honduras radio | 103 | information on honduras | 32 |
la tribuna honduras | 99 | comayagua honduras | 31 |
honduras news | 90 | honduras real estate | 31 |
honduras picture | 90 | de honduras noticias | 30 |
de diarios honduras | 88 | honduras girl | 27 |
de honduras radio | 70 | america honduras radio | 27 |
airport ceiba honduras la | 67 | futbol honduras | 26 |
honduras weather | 61 | de honduras mapa | 25 |
cortes honduras puerto | 57 | food honduras | 25 |
honduras chat | 55 | honduras this week | 24 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Honduras"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Honduras. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Хондурас. (various references) | |
Chinese | 洪都拉斯. (various references) | |
Czech | Honduras. (various references) | |
Danish | Honduras (Republic of Honduras, The Republic of Honduras), HN (Republic of Honduras), republikken Honduras (Republic of Honduras, The Republic of Honduras). (various references) | |
Dutch | Honduras (Republic of Honduras, The Republic of Honduras). (various references) | |
Esperanto | Honduraso. (various references) | |
Finnish | Hondurasin tasavalta (Republic of Honduras), Honduras (Republic of Honduras), HN (Republic of Honduras). (various references) | |
French | Honduras (Republic of Honduras, The Republic of Honduras). (various references) | |
German | Honduras (Honduras (hn)). (various references) | |
Greek | HN (Republic of Honduras), Ονδούρα (Republic of Honduras), Δημοκρατία της Ονδούρας (Republic of Honduras). (various references) | |
Hungarian | Honduras. (various references) | |
Italian | Honduras (Republic of Honduras, The Republic of Honduras). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ホルモン療法 (14 March, holocaust, hologram, holograph, holographic, holography, Honda, honky-tonk, hormone therapy, horn, horoscope, phon, short-sleeved dress shirt, white, White Day, white gasoline, white gold, White House, white liquor, white meat, white noise, white pepper, white sauce, white space, white tie, whiteboard, white-collar, Whitehall). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ホンジェラス . (various references) | |
Korean | 혼드라스. (various references) | |
Papiamen | Honduras. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ondurashay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | Honduras (Republic of Honduras). (various references) | |
Russian | гондурас, Гондурас. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | honduras. (various references) | |
Spanish | Honduras (Republic of Honduras). (various references) | |
Swedish | Honduras (Republic of Honduras), HN (Republic of Honduras), Republiken Honduras (Republic of Honduras). (various references) | |
Turkish | Honduras. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Honduras" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ondras. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-h-n-o-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: dhurnas, dourahs, hadrons. | |
-2 letters: adorns, around, dhurna, dourah, douras, hadron, hoards, hondas, hounds, onrush, radons, rounds, shoran, shroud, soudan, unshod. | |
-3 letters: adorn, arson, darns, donas, dorsa, doura, duras, durns, duros, hands, hards, hoard, hoars, honda, horas, horns, hound, hours, hurds, nards, nodus, nurds, radon, rands, roads, roans, round, sadhu, sarod, shard, sharn, shorn. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-h-n-o-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: anhydrous. | |
+3 letters: punchboards. | |
+4 letters: dreadnoughts, housetrained, malnourished, nonhazardous, subarachnoid. | |
+5 letters: boardinghouse, diathermanous, disharmonious, hazardousness, hyaluronidase, quadraphonics, quadriphonics. | |
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