Location: Middle America, bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean, between Costa Rica and Honduras

Language: Spanish (official) English- and Amerindian-speaking minorities on Atlantic coast

Currency: 1 gold cordoba (C$) = 100 centavos

Population: 4,717,132

Natural Hazards: destructive earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, and occasionally severe hurricanes

Import: consumer goods, machinery and equipment, petroleum products

Export: coffee, seafood, meat, sugar, gold, bananas

Industries: food processing, chemicals, metal products, textiles, clothing, petroleum refining and distribution, beverages, footwear

Transportation:
Highways:
total: 16,382 km
paved: 1,818 km
unpaved: 14,564 km

Waterways: 2,220 km, including 2 large lakes

Ports & Harbors: Bluefields, Corinto, El Bluff, Puerto Cabezas, Puerto Sandino,
Rama, San Juan del Sur

Location: Middle America, bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean, between Colombia and Costa Rica

Language: Spanish (official), English 14%

Currency: 1 balboa (B) = 100 centesimos

Population: 2,778,526

Natural Hazards: NA

Import: capital goods 21%, crude oil 11%, foodstuffs 9%,
consumer goods, chemicals

Export: bananas 43%, shrimp 11%, sugar 4%, clothing 5%,
coffee 2%

Industries: construction, petroleum refining, brewing, cement and other construction materials, sugar milling

Transportation:
Railways:
total: 355 km
broad gauge: 76 km 1.524-m gauge
narrow gauge: 279 km 0.914-m gauge

Highways:
total: 11,100 km
paved: 3,730 km (including 30 km of expressways)
unpaved: 7,370 km

Waterways: 800 km navigable by shallow draft vessels; 82 km Panama Canal

Ports & Harbors: Balboa, Cristobal, Coco Solo, Manzanillo (part of Colon area), Vacamonte