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Honduras, a great country in the middle of Central America, where you can enjoy the smell of pineapple fields or dive in the bay islands.

Honduras is a republic in Central America. It was formerly known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras (now Belize). The country is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras, a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea.

Its size is just over 112,000 km² with an estimated population of almost 8 million. Its capital is Tegucigalpa but equally important is San Pedro Sula a vital travel hub linking La Ceiba and finally by ferry the Bay Islands off the north coast into the Caribbean Sea.