HONDURAS
(Republic of Honduras)

Capital: Tegucigalpa

Flag: national flag consists of a white horizontal strip between two blue horizontal strips with five blue stars on the white strip representing five members of the former union of the Central American provinces.

SLOGAN: Himno Nacional, since "Tu bandera es un lampo de cielo" ("Your flag - heavenly light").

MONETARY BLOCK: Leppira (l) also famous as peso, is paper currency in 100 cents. There are coins of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 and 50 sentav and also notes of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 lempir. l1 = $0,0585 (or $1 = 1,18,92) as of 2005.

WEIGHT AND MEASURES: the metric system is the legal standard; some old Spanish measures are still used.

HOLIDAYS: New year, on January 1; Day of America, on April 14; Labor Day, on May 1; Independence Day, on September 15; Birthday of Francisco Morazan, on October 3; Day of Columbus, on October 12; Day of army, on October 21; Christmas, on December 25. Moveable religious feasts include the Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Sacred Saturday.

TIME: 6th mornings = midday of GMT.

ARRANGEMENT, SIZE AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Located in Central America, Honduras has the total area of 112 090 sq.km (43 278 quarter. Miles), 663 km long (412 miles) en-wsw and 317 km (197 miles) of nnw-sse. Rather, the area occupied with Honduras is a little more, than the State of Tennessee. He is limited on n and e by the Caribbean Sea, to Nisharagua and Fonseca Bay, in the southwest of El Salvador and on Guatemala with a total length of border of 2340 km (1,454 miles) from which 820 km (509 miles) - the coastline.

Under the terms of the arbitral award of Alphonso XIII of Spain in 1906 Honduras received a part of the coast of Moskito (Miskito) or La-Mosquitia, to the North and to the west from the Koko River (Segovia). Referring to inability of Honduras to integrate the territory, Nicaragua renewed the claims to all coast of mosquitoes in the 1950th years and I submitted the case to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). In February, 1957 Honduras created the new department of Grasias di Dios consisting of the former territory of Moskitiya. In 1960 the MU defined that Nicaragua was obliged to make the arbitral award of 1906 on border of this country with Honduras. Judges decided 14-1 voices that after in the international dispute the relevant arbitral award was made, it came into force and remained such in spite of the fact that at its carrying out it didn't pass.

Two tiny Islands of Lebed (Islas del Cisne) lying in 17 ° 23 'n and 83 ° 56' w in the western Caribbean Sea, approximately in 177 km (110 miles) from Patuka-Poynta were officially conceded by the United States in Honduras on November 20, 1971. In the administrative purposes they are included in the structure of Department of Islas de la Bahia which capital is Roatan on the island of Roatan. The island of Lebedya effectively were kept by the United States which approved the requirement in 1863 to use a guano and had a meteorological station and aviation to a post.