Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Tegucigalpa
- Region
- Americas, Central America
- Population
- 11,005,850 (2025)
- Area
- 112,090 km²
- Currency
- Honduran lempira (HNL)
- Languages
- Spanish, Garifuna, Mískito
- Calling code
- +504
- Internet domain
- .hn
- ISO codes
- HN, HND, 340
- Time zone
- UTC-6:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- ##### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Honduras covers about 112,090 square kilometres. By area it ranks 104th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Benin and a little larger than Liberia. It shares a land border with 3 neighbours: Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador. Its centre lies at about 15° north, 86° west, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 11 million people live in Honduras (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 87th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 0.13 percent of the world's people. On average there are 98 people to each square kilometre. About 59 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 73 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Spanish, Garifuna, Mískito. A person from Honduras is called Honduran.
Money and economy
The currency is the Honduran lempira (code HNL, symbol L). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 39.6 billion (2025), which is about US$ 3,598 for each person (2025).
Time
Honduras uses one time zone, UTC-6:00 (America/Tegucigalpa). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Tegucigalpa | 850,848 |
| San Pedro Sula | 801,259 |
| Danlí | 233,789 |
| La Ceiba | 222,055 |
| La Ceiba | 215,973 |
| Puerto Cortez | 142,311 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Central America
Belize, Costa Rica, Panama. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.