Colón Department

Colón is one of the 18 departments into which is divided. It was created in 1881. The departmental capital is , and the other main city is .
  • Type: department of Honduras with 320,000 residents
  • Description: department of Honduras
  • Also known as: Colón”, “Departamento de Colon”, and “El Colón de Cristóbal

Colón Department

Latitude
15.75° or 15° 45′ north
Longitude
-85.6667° or 85° 40′ west
Population
320,000
Elevation
81 metres (266 feet)
Open location code
767PQ82M+28
Geo­Names ID
3613358
Wiki­data ID
Q867117
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Colón Department” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: إدارة كولون
  • Asturian: Departamentu de Colón
  • Basque: Colón
  • Bengali: কোলন বিভাগ
  • Breton: Departamant Colón (Honduras)
  • Breton: Departamant Colón
  • Bulgarian: Колон
  • Catalan: departament de Colón
  • Catalan: Departament de Colón
  • Cebuano: Departamento de Colón
  • Chinese: Colón Koān
  • Chinese: 科隆省
  • Danish: Colón Department
  • Dutch: Colón
  • Esperanto: Colon
  • Esperanto: Colón
  • Esperanto: departemento Colón
  • Esperanto: Departemento Colón
  • Esperanto: departemento Kolumbo
  • Finnish: Colón
  • French: Colón
  • French: Departement de Colon
  • French: Département de Colón
  • Galician: Departamento de Colón
  • Georgian: კოლონის დეპარტამენტი
  • German: Colón
  • German: Departamento Colón
  • Greek: Κολόν
  • Gujarati: કોલોન વિભાગ
  • Hindi: कोलन विभाग (होंडुरास)
  • Hindi: कोलन विभाग
  • Hungarian: Colón megye
  • Indonesian: Departemen Colón
  • Italian: dipartimento di Colón
  • Italian: Dipartimento di Colón
  • Japanese: コロン県
  • Kannada: ಕೊಲೊನ್ ಡಿಪಾರ್ಟ್ಮೆಂಟ್
  • Korean: 콜론주
  • Ladino: Colón
  • Latvian: Kolonas departaments
  • Lithuanian: Kolono departamentas
  • Low German: Departamento Colón
  • Malay: Colon Department
  • Marathi: कॉलोन विभाग
  • Marathi: कोलोन प्रांत
  • Min Nan Chinese: Colón Koān
  • Northern Frisian: Colón
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Colon department
  • Persian: استان کولون
  • Polish: Colón
  • Portuguese: Colón
  • Portuguese: Departamento de Colón
  • Quechua: Colón (Unduras) suyu
  • Quechua: Colón suyu
  • Quechua: Colón
  • Romanian: Colon
  • Romanian: Colón
  • Romanian: Departamentul Colón
  • Russian: Колон
  • Serbian: Колон (Хондурас)
  • Serbian: Колон
  • Serbo-Croatian: Departman Colón (Honduras)
  • Serbo-Croatian: Departman Colón
  • Sinhala: කොලෝන් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, හොන්ඩුරාස්
  • Sinhala: කොලෝන් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව
  • Spanish: Colón
  • Spanish: Departamento de Colón
  • Spanish: El Colón de Cristóbal
  • Swedish: Colón
  • Swedish: Departamento de Colón
  • Tamil: கோலோன் துறை
  • Telugu: కోలోన్ డిపార్ట్మెంట్
  • Telugu: కోలోన్ విభాగం
  • Thai: จังหวัดโกลอน
  • Turkish: Colon Departmanı
  • Ukrainian: Колон
  • Urdu: کولون ڈیپارٹمنٹ
  • Urdu: کولون محکمہ
  • Vietnamese: Colón
  • Waray (Philippines): Colón
  • Tlālxeliuhcāyōtl Colón

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