North America · Central America

Honduras

Honduras covers about 112,000 km² (43,300 mi²), the 105th largest of the 246 places listed here. That is close to Bulgaria, at about 113,000 km².

112,000km²Area, main territory
8.3 millionPopulation
3.66In Belgiums

200 km

Honduras

Facts

Area, main territory	112,000 km²43,300 mi²
Official area	112,000 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure
In Belgiums	3.66
Capital	Tegucigalpa
Population	8.3 millionWikidata, 2013
Density	74 people per km²
Latitude range	13°N to 17°N
In other languages	ホンジュラス日本語 · 洪都拉斯中文 · 온두라스 한국어
Continent	North America#6 of 27 countries by area

What the numbers say about Honduras

Russia, the largest place listed, is 151× the size of Honduras.
At 74 people per km², Honduras is the 89th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
Honduras lies at 15°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.1×.
Laid out flat, Honduras's main territory stretches about 393 km north to south and 670 km east to west.
Wikidata's official figure of 112,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 112,000 km², to within 2%.

How Honduras measures up

Honduras holds 0.5% of the land area and 1.4% of the people of the 27 countries listed for North America. In Central America it is the 3rd largest of 8.

Where it ranks	Figure	Position
Area	112,000 km²	104th of 239
Population	8.3 million	100th of 237
Density	74 per km²	89th of 185
Farthest north	14.8°N	122nd of 212

Compared with	Its area	Honduras is
Belgium	30,700 km²	3.66× its size
United Kingdom	244,000 km²	0.46× its size
Germany	358,000 km²	0.31× its size
Japan	374,000 km²	0.30× its size
France	548,000 km²	0.20× its size
India	3,151,000 km²	0.04× its size
Brazil	8,473,000 km²	0.01× its size
United States	9,447,000 km²	0.01× its size
Russia	16,980,000 km²	0.01× its size

Where Honduras sits

Honduras's centre lies at 14.8°N, 86.6°W, in the northern and western hemispheres, about 1,650 km from the equator.
Its main territory spans 13°N to 17°N, about 490 km from its southern edge to its northern.

Closest neighbours, by distance between centres

On the same latitude, elsewhere in the world

If Honduras had other densities

At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Honduras would have 140.6 million people. It has 8.3 million.
At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Honduras would have 417,000 people. It has 8.3 million.
At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 8.1 million.

About the same size as

Largest in North America

Compare Honduras

Sources and method

Outline: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 - Countries, public domain
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outline, shown rounded
Official figures: Area, population and capital from Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-11
Population: Wikidata, 2013; covers the whole country, overseas territory included
Data built: 2026-11-11

Full method