Lake Nicaragua is the only freshwater lake in the world with a resident shark population.
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Nicaragua
Republic of Nicaragua
North America
ยท Central America
0Population
130.37Kkmยฒ of land
$1.91KGDP / person
ManaguaCapital
- ISO codes
- NI ยท NIC
- Density
- 50 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Spanish
- Currency
- Nicaraguan cรณrdoba (NIO)
- Dial code
- +505
- Internet domain
- .ni
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 12.6710ยฐ N, 85.0690ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Nicaraguan
- UN region
- Americas ยท Central America
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Lower middle income
- Total GDP
- $12.52B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 2
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By the numbers
How Nicaragua stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
110th
of 242 ยท 0.09% of world population
Land area
99th
of 242 ยท 0.09% of world land
GDP per person
189th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
154th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Nicaragua
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 6,545,502 people, the 110th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 1,173 of everyone alive.
Covers 130,373 kmยฒ, making it the 99th largest country here - about 4.3 times the size of Belgium.
Population density is about 50 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Managua, at 12.15ยฐ N, 86.27ยฐ W, with a metropolitan population of about 920,000.
Shares land borders with 2 countries: Costa Rica and Honduras.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, America/Managua.
The currency is the Nicaraguan cรณrdoba (NIO, symbol C$).
The official language is Spanish.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
America/Managua
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UTCโ06:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
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Managua
Managua
12.1550ยฐ N, 86.2704ยฐ W
920K
Land neighbours
2 countries share a border with Nicaragua.