Nome official de Honduras

Answer 1

National name: > República de HondurasCurrent government officials

Languages: Spanish (official), Amerindian dialects; English widely spoken in business

Ethnicity/race: mestizo 90%, Amerindian 7%, black 2%, white 1%

Religions: Roman Catholic 97%, Protestant 3%

National Holiday: Independence Day, September 15

Literacy rate: 80% (2001 est.)

Economic summary: GDP/PPP (2011 est.): $36.15 billion; per capita $4,400. Real growth rate: 3.6%. Inflation: 7%. Unemployment: 4.8%. Arable land: 9.53%. Agriculture: bananas, coffee, citrus; beef; timber; shrimp. Labor force: 3.461 million; agriculture 39.2%, industry 20.9%, services 39.8% (2005 est.). Industries: sugar, coffee, textiles, clothing, wood products. Natural resources: timber, gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, iron ore, antimony, coal, fish, hydropower. Exports: $6.839 billion (2011 est.): apparel, coffee, shrimp, automobile wire harnesses, cigars, bananas, gold, palm oil, fruit, lobster, lumber. Imports: $10.04 billion (2011 est.): machinery and transport equipment, industrial raw materials, chemical products, fuels, foodstuffs. Major trading partners: U.S., Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala (2011).

Communications: Telephones: main lines in use: 669,500 (2009); mobile cellular: 9.505 million (2009). Broadcast media: multiple privately-owned terrestrial TV networks, supplemented by multiple cable TV networks; Radio Honduras is the lone government-owned radio network; roughly 300 privately-owned radio stations (2007). Internet hosts: 27,074 (2010). Internet users: 731,700 (2009).

Transportation: Railways: total: 75 km (2009). Roadways: total: 14,239 km; paved: 3,159 km; unpaved: 11,080 km (2009 est.). Waterways: 465 km (most navigable only by small craft) (2012). Ports and harbors: La Ceiba, Puerto Cortes, San Lorenzo, Tela. Airports: 104 (2012).

International disputes: International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on the delimitation of "bolsones" (disputed areas) along the El Salvador-Honduras border in 1992 with final settlement by the parties in 2006 after an Organization of American States survey and a further ICJ ruling in 2003; the 1992 ICJ ruling advised a tripartite resolution to a maritime boundary in the Gulf of Fonseca with consideration of Honduran access to the Pacific; El Salvador continues to claim tiny Conejo Island, not mentioned in the ICJ ruling, off Honduras in the Gulf of Fonseca; Honduras claims the Belizean-administered Sapodilla Cays off the coast of Belize in its constitution, but agreed to a joint ecological park around the cays should Guatemala consent to a maritime corridor in the Caribbean under the OAS-sponsored 2002 Belize-Guatemala Differendum.