Nicaragua Country Info - 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.

Nicaragua s a country in Central America. It has coastlines on both the Caribbean Sea, in the east, and the North Pacific Ocean, in the west, and has Costa Rica to the southeast and Honduras to the northwest. Tourism in Nicaragua is growing at 15% to 20% annually. Tourists are coming for the beauty and richness this country has to offer. From eco-tourism, adventure, beach, colonial cities, nightlife, and a low cost of living, Nicaragua has experienced a booming number of tourists from around the world. The places where tourists are hanging out and having a good time are in the colonial cities of Granada and Leon, the Pacific Coast, hiking on the volcanoes, and in the Caribbean coast in the Corn Islands.

Pictures from Capital (Managua)

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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 Nicaragua 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 following list are the 17 regions/states in Nicaragua we know off.

Demographic Statistics

In the year 2010, the total Nicaraguan population grew at a rate of 1.74% (or by 104,329 citizens). With 25,663 deaths and 136,527 babies born, the natural increase rate lies at 1.85%. -6,536 persons more in total emmigrated from the country than immigrated.

An overview of 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.

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.