Map of Honduras

Honduras is located in North America. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 15.0° N, 86.5° W. It shares land borders with 3 countries — El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua — and also has its own coastline. Within North America, a continent of 23 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, Honduras is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Honduras shares land frontiers with the following 3 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Honduras covers about 112,492 km² (43,433 sq mi). That makes it the 101st-largest country in the world by area and the 5th-largest in North America, larger by area than 18 of the continent’s 23 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 9,892,632, the 95th-largest in the world and the 7th-largest in North America, accounting for about 1.6% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Honduras has an average population density of about 88 people per km². Among the 23 countries of North America it stands 7th by population and 5th by area.

The seat of government is Tegucigalpa, and the official currency is the Honduran lempira (HNL, L), and the main official language is Spanish. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC-06:00.

Honduras carries the ISO country codes HN and HND, dials on the international calling code +504 and uses the .hn internet domain.

Honduras shares its land borders with 3 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Guatemala (capital Guatemala City, about 18,079,810 people), Nicaragua (capital Managua, about 6,803,886 people) and El Salvador (capital San Salvador, about 6,029,976 people).

By area, Honduras is larger than 2 of these neighbours and smaller than 1 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 15.0° N, 86.5° W and opens at zoom level 6, framing Honduras within North America. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Tegucigalpa. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Honduras lies about 1,665 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Honduras keeps a single standard time zone, UTC-06:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit -06:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Honduran lempira (HNL, L).

The official language is Spanish, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +504 and websites commonly use the .hn internet domain.

In short, Honduras is a coastal country in North America, sharing land borders with 3 countries. Its capital is Tegucigalpa. Honduras has a population of about 9,892,632 and covers around 112,492 km² (43,433 sq mi), ranking it 95th in the world by population and 101st by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Honduras.

The flag of Honduras is composed of three equal horizontal bands of turquoise, white and turquoise, with five small five-pointed turquoise stars arranged in a quincuncial pattern at the center of the white band.

The flag of Honduras is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.