Explore Nicaragua in North America
Description and Basic Information
Nicaragua with its capital Managua is located in North America (Central America, bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean). It covers some 129,495 square kilometres (slightly smaller than New York state) with 5,780,000 citizens. Spanish and English are the the languages spoken by people in Nicaragua. It is charing borders with Costa Rica and Honduras.
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About Nicaragua
The topography features extensive Atlantic coastal plains rising to central interior mountains with narrow Pacific coastal plain interrupted by volcanoes. The average density of population is about 44 per km². The climate in can be described as tropical in lowlands, cooler in highlands. Potential natural disasters are destructive earthquakes or volcanoes, landslides or extremely susceptible to hurricanes.
To reach someone in Nicaragua dial +505 prior to a number. There are 255,000 installed telephones. And there are 3,204,000 registered mobile phones. The cellular networks operate on frequencies of 1900 Mhz. Websites typically end with the top level domain ".ni". If you want to bring electric appliances (e.g. battery charger), keep in mind the local 120V - 60Hz.
The country consists of 17 regions/states which are listed below.
Regions/States of Nicaragua
Tourism Information
Official Tourism Office
Website: Nicaragua Tourism
Apartado Postal A-122
Managua
Nicaragua
Phone: +505 2223333
Unesco World Heritage Properties
León Cathedral
Built between 1747 and the early 19th century to the design of Guatemalan architect Diego José de Porres Esquivel, the monument expresses the transition from Baroque to Neoclassical...
Ruins of León Viejo
León Viejo is one of the oldest Spanish colonial settlements in the Americas. It did not develop and so its ruins are outstanding testimony to the social and economic structures of the...
Demographic Information
Age Distribution in Nicaragua
Each pair of bars represents a single age group (male/female). Each group is spanning 5 years. E.g. 0 to 5 years, 5 to 10 etc. and group "0 to 5" being at the left end and "100 +" at the right end of the chart.
Birthrate
The number of people born in Nicaragua has declined over the last 10 years by 4.5 births per thousand from 27.3 in 2001 to 22.8 in 2010. Currently, 136,527 children are born each year.
Natural Deathrate
The number of people naturally dying in Nicaragua has declined over the last 10 years by 0.4 deaths per thousand from 4.7 in 2001 to 4.3 in 2010. Currently, 25,663 people die each year.
Natural Population Growth
Population, Migration and Growth: The population in Nicaragua is growing at an rate of 1.74% (or by 104,329 citizens). Each year 6,536 people leave this country (or 1.10 per thousand citizens) - making it an emmigration country. This leads to an absolute natural increase rate of the population of 1.85%. Or an total increase of 110,865 citizens.
Based on content from wikitravel.org. The original article can be found here based on the work of these users.
Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.
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