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Central America

Area
Population

7

Demonym

Central American, American

Languages

•

77 /km2 (200 /sq mi)

Countries

•

41,739,000 (2009 est.)

Density

•

523,780 km2 (202,233 sq mi)

Spanish, English, Mayan languages, Garifuna and many
others.

Is the centralgeographic region of the Americas.
It is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American
continent, which connects with South America on the southeast.
It is bordered by Mexico to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the east,
the North Pacific Ocean to the west, and Colombia to the south-east.

Central America
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Consists of the seven states of Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador,Guatemala,
Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.

Name of
territory

Area
(Kms2)

Population

Capital

Official
Language

Belize

22,966

307,000

Belmopan

English

Guatemala

108,890

14,027,000

Guatemala City

Spanish

El Salvador

21,040

6,163,000

San Salvador

Spanish

Honduras

112,090

7,466,000

Tegucigalpa

Spanish

Nicaragua

130,3735,743,000

Managua

Spanish

Costa Rica

51,100

4,579,000

San José

Spanish

Panama

78,200

3,454,000

Panama City

Spanish

Total

523,780

41,739,000

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Countries Facts
Country

GDP
Exchange (Real
Local
rate
Growth
Currency (per USD Rate)
1.00)
(2011
est.)

Guatemala Quetzales

QTZ
7.799

El Salvador US Dollars USD 1.00

HondurasLempiras HNL 18.9

Nicaragua Cordobas

Costa Rica

Panama

Colones

NIO
22.45

CRC
503.5

Balboas &
PAB 1.00
US Dollars

3.8%

GDP
(per
Capita)
(PPP)
(2001
est.)

USD
5,001

2.0%

USD
7,600

3.5%

USD
4,300

4%

4%

10.6%

USD
3,200

USD
11,500

USD
13,600

Investment Inflation
(gross
Rate
Top
fixed)
(consumer Agriculture
of GDPprices)
Products
(2011 est.) (2011 est.)

15.0%

13.4%

24.9%

28.2%

19.6%

29.1%

Top
Industries

6.2%

Sugar, textiles
Sugarcane,
and clothing,
corn, bananas,
furniture,
coffee, beans,
chemicals,
cardamom,
petroleum,
cattle, sheep,
metals, rubber,
pigs, chickens
tourism

5.1%

Coffee, sugar,
corn, rice,
beans, oilseed,
cotton,
sorghum; beef,
dairy products7%

8%

Food
processing,
beverages,
petroleum,
chemicals,
fertilizer,
textiles,
furniture,
light metals

Bananas,
coffee, citrus,
Sugar, coffee,
corn, African woven and knit
palm; beef;
apparel, wood
timber; shrimp, products, cigars
tilapia, lobster
Coffee,
bananas,
sugarcane,
cotton, rice,
corn, tobacco,
sesame, soya,
beans; beef,
veal, pork,
poultry, dairyproducts;
shrimp,
lobsters

Food
processing,
chemicals,
machinery and
metal products,
knit and woven
apparel,
petroleum
refining and
distribution,
beverages,
footwear, wood

5.3%

Microprocessors
Bananas,
, food
pineapples,
processing,
coffee, melons,
medical
ornamental
equipment,
plants, sugar,
textiles and
corn, rice,
clothing,
beans,
construction
potatoes; beef,materials,
poultry, dairy;
fertilizer, plastic
timber
products

5.9%

Construction,
Bananas, rice,
brewing,
corn, coffee,
cement and
sugarcane,
other
vegetables;
construction
livestock;
materials, sugar
shrimp
milling

Exports
(2011 Est)

Export
Partners

Imports
(2011 Est)

Import
Partners

USD 10.46
billion

USA 36.8%,
El Salvador 10.3%,
Honduras 8.8%,Mexico 7.5%

USD 16.6
billion

US 34.6%,
Mexico 11.8%,
China 7.9%,
El Salvador 5.3%

USD 5.309
billion

USA 43.7%,
Guatemala 13.9%,
Honduras 13.2%,
Nicaragua 5.6%

USD 10.2
billion

US 37.8%,
Guatemala 9.8%,
Mexico 7.6%,
China 5.7%,
Honduras 4.6%

USD 6.839
billion

USA 65%,
El Salvador 4.4%,
Germany 4%

USD 10.04
billion

USA 50.7%,
Guatemala 8.2%,
Mexico...