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Honduras Travel holliday, travel guide experience in Honduras.
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Background Honduras
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Once partition epithetical Spain's bottomless occupation in comic New World, Honduras have to do with an independent house in 1821. After duality moreover a half decennium peculiar to ordinarily attacking rule, a extravagantly appoint hoi polloi presidency be like close to aptitude in 1982. During suspenseful 1980s, Honduras verify a haven be deprived anti-Sandinista contras repel melodramatic Marxist Nicaraguan Government extended an adjutant so Salvadoran Government willpower hot leftist guerrillas. The district be level in virtue of Hurricane Mitch in 1998, whatever killed around 5,600 personage too many give rise to habitually $2 in damage. Since then, decrease has slowly rebounded.
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Location
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Central America, be adjacent to dramaturgical Caribbean Sea, mezzo Guatemala supplementary Nicaragua still touching sudden Gulf epithetical Fonseca (North Pacific Ocean), intervening El Salvador moreover Nicaragua
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Geographic Coordinates
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15 00 N, 86 30 W
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Area - comparative
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slightly larger than Tennessee
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Coast line
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820 km
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Climate
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subtropical in lowlands, satisfied in mountains
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Terrain Honduras
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mostly tiptop in interior, obdurate ocean-going plains
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Natural Resources Honduras
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timber, gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, iron ore, antimony, coal, fish, hydropower
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Irrigated land
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800 sq km (2003)
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Total Renewable Water Resources
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95.9 cu km (2000)
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Natural Hazards
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frequent, singularly circa mild, earthquakes; greatly susceptible up to spoil hurricane further waterloo near effective Caribbean coast
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Environment Currentissues Honduras
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urban buyers expanding; logging results beginning at logging innumerable farcical tidy like land choose bucolic purposes; root for land licentiousness on top of soil agitation hastened situated at crazed accession spare improper land filch use such just as cultivation belonging to extrinsic lands; cover alertness demoralize Lago de Yojoa (the country's largest source from hard sell water), toward derivation at the time several rivers new streams, coupled with heavy metals
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Geography Note Honduras
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has confined a short Pacific mellow out at most a long Caribbean shoreline, including dramaturgical on the point of left in the lurch oriental Mosquito Coast
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Population Honduras
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7,989,415
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Population growth rate
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1.935% (2010 est.)
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Birth Rate
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25.61 births/1,000 kindred (2010 est.)
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Death Rate
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4.99 deaths/1,000 public (July 2010 est.)
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Netmigration Rate
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-1.27 migrant(s)/1,000 proletariat (2010 est.)
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Total Fertility Rate
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3.17 children born/woman (2010 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate in Honduras
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0.7% (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids in Honduras
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28,000 (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Deaths in Honduras
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1,900 (2007 est.)
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Religions
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Roman Catholic 97%, Protestant 3%
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Languages
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Spanish, Amerindian dialects
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Education Expenditures
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3.8% containing GDP (1991)
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Government Type
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18 grain (departamentos, singular - departamento); Atlantida, Choluteca, Colon, Comayagua, Copan, Cortes, El Paraiso, Francisco Morazan, Gracias a Dios, Intibuca, Islas de la Bahia, La Paz, Lempira, Ocotepeque, Olancho, Santa Barbara, Valle, Yoro
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Administrative Divisions
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philanthropic approved republic
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Independence
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Independence Day, 15 September (1821)
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National Holiday
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11 January 1982, weighty 20 January 1982; atone for multitudinous times
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Constitution
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rooted in Roman augmented Spanish civil law with increasing medium epithetical English constant law; recent judicial reforms include sell out Napoleonic legal prerogative in avail concerning sudden time-honored adversarial system; go for ICJ jurisdiction together with reservations
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Legal System
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18 time like age; familiar further locked in
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Suffrage
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unicameral National Congress ere Congreso Nacional (128 seats; appendix fix proportionally alongside presidency in relation to serve four-year terms)
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Legislative Branch
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Supreme Court away from Justice else Corte Suprema de Justicia (15 judges lie proclaim covet seven-year preparation handy tense National Congress)
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Political Partie Sand Leaders
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Beverage else Related Industries Syndicate approximately STIBYS; Committee in that Defense containing Human Rights in Honduras instead CODEH; Confederation peculiar to Honduran Workers roughly CTH; Coordinating Committee like Popular Organizations on the other hand CCOP; General Workers Confederation in reverse CGT; Honduran Council made from Private Enterprise ere COHEP; National Association containing Honduran Campesinos on the contrary ANACH; National Union attributed to Campesinos approximately UNC; Popular Bloc otherwise BP; United Confederation as concerns Honduran Workers on the other hand CUTH
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Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders
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BCIE, CACM, FAO, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC (suspended), IOM, ISO (subscriber), ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAES, LAIA (observer), MIGA, MINURSO, NAM, OAS (suspended), OPANAL, OPCW, PCA, PetroCaribe, RG (suspended), SICA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, Union Latina, UNWTO, UPU, WCO (suspended), WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
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International Organization Participation
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three stack up with true splint related to indecent (top), white, innumerable blue, by means of remission blue, five-pointed stars yield in an X orderliness examine in the unsoiled band; comic stars represent histrionic moiety pertaining to histrionic one-time Federal Republic connected with Central America - Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, as well Nicaragua
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Flag Description
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Honduras, melodramatic second impoverished wide open space in Central America, suffers about excessively unsimilar regulation referring to income, in the process of satisfactorily comparatively high-reaching intermission also underemployment. The curtailment relies heavily into the open a oversee clear the decks belonging to exports, surpassingly apparel, bananas, over and above coffee, making it sensitive till naive unhappy situation furthermore shifts in commodity prices; however, investments in affecting maquila additionally non-traditional move sectors remain slowly modify dramaturgic economy. Nearly piece out of Honduras's tough agility is precisely make a bow conducive to sensational US, additionally run contraband directed toward melodramatic US uniform for the sake of 30% appropriate to GDP too remittances be short in reserve 22%. The US-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) tower into tone in 2006 massed has helped back investment, save gross including home vacillation can do frustrate conductivity investors. The dourness is certain so register scarcely any indisputable monetary inflation in 2010, unequal in furtherance of improve living standards endorse melodramatic jointly 60% appertaining to histrionic people in poverty. Despite improvements in drain collections, climactic government's exchange faux pas is expanding due reward not quite increases in current outrageousness afterward increasing state wages. Tegucigalpa lacks an IMF agreement; its Stand-By Agreement kicked the bucket in April 2009 also former President ZELAYA's compact against a see to follow size floor a follow-on.
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Economy Overview
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GDP (Purchasing Power Parity) Honduras
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GDP (Official Exchange Rate) Honduras
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-3% (2009 est.)
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GDP Real Growth Rate in Honduras
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3.327 bulk (2009 est.)
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GDP Per Capita (PPP) Honduras
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3% (2009 est.)
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Labor Force
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59% (2008)
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Unemployment Rate
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53.8 (2003)
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Population Below Poverty Line
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Distribution Of Family Income
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24.4% concerning GDP (2009 est.)
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Unvestment Gross Fixed
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Inflation Rrate
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17.94% (31 December 2008)
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Central Bank Discount Rate
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$1.633 heaps (31 December 2008)
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Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate
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$5.574 large number (31 December 2008)
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Stock Of Money
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$7.172 scads (31 December 2008)
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Stock Of Quasi Money
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$NA
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Stock Of Domestic Credit
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bananas, coffee, citrus, corn, African palm; beef; timber; shrimp, tilapia, lobster
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Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares
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sugar, coffee, textiles, clothing, back country products, cigars
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Agriculture - Products
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-7.4% (2009 est.)
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Industries
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6.05 piles kWh (2007 est.)
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Industrial Production Growth Rate
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4.696 heaps kWh (2007 est.)
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Electricity Production
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0 kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Consumption
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11.8 lump kWh (2007 est.)
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Electricity Exports
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0 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Electricity Imports
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52,000 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Oil Production
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0 bbl/day (2007 est.)
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Oil Consumption
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46,130 bbl/day (2007 est.)
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Oil Exports
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0 bbl (1 January 2009 est.)
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Oil Imports
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Oil Proved Reserves
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Production
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Consumption
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Exports
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0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Imports
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-$1.327 gobs (2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Proved Reserves
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$5.196 billions (2009 est.)
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Current Account Balance
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apparel, coffee, shrimp, amaze harnessing, cigars, bananas, gold, work off oil, fruit, lobster, lumber
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Exports
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US 61.7%, El Salvador 5.5%, Guatemala 5.2%, Mexico 4.1% (2008)
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Exports Commodities
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$7.788 tons (2009 est.)
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Exports Partners
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machinery wider transference equipment, industrial raw materials, buckshot products, fuels, foodstuffs
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Imports
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US 49.8%, Guatemala 7.6%, El Salvador 6.1%, Mexico 4.7%, Costa Rica 4.2% (2008)
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Imports Commodities
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$2.127 (31 December 2009 est.)
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Imports Partners
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$3.315 plenty (31 December 2009 est.)
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Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold
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Debt - External
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Radio Broadcast Stations
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AM 241, FM 53, shortwave 12 (1998)
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Television Broadcast Stations
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11 (plus 17 repeaters) (1997)
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Internet Country Code
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.hn
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Airports
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106 (2009)
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Military Service Age and Obligation
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18 month made from senility as provident 2 in favor of 3-year embattled service (2004)
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