General Data On Nicaragua
| OFFICIAL NAME: | Republic of Nicaragua |
| CAPITAL : | Managua |
| OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: |
Spanish 97.5 % |
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Other Languages 2.5% |
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| RELIGION: | Catholic 58.5% |
| Baptist 21.6%, | |
| Other 19.9% | |
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| ETHNIC COMPOSITION: |
Mestizos 69% |
| Caucasians17% | |
| Blacks 9% | |
| Indigenous 5% | |
| BOUNDARIES: |
NORTH: Honduras |
| SOUTH: Costa Rica | |
| EAST:Atlantic Ocean | |
| WEST: Pacific Ocean | |
| TERRITORIAL EXTENSION: | 130,688 Km (50,458 square miles) |
| Land: 120,355 km | |
| Lakes: 10,333 Km | |
| COAST LINES: | Pacific Ocean: 352 kms. |
| Atlantic Ocean: 541 kms. | |
| GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION: | Midpoint of the Continent of the Americas (Central America) |
| NATIONAL HOLIDAYS: | January First (New Year) |
| Holy Thursday and Good Friday (Easter Week) | |
| May First (Labor Day) | |
| July Nineteenth (Day of the Sandinista´s Revolution) | |
| September Fourteenth and fifteenth (Independence Days) | |
| December Eighth (Feast of the Immaculate Conception) | |
| December Twenty-Fifth (Christmas) |