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Nicaragua is the largest country in by area and the least densely populated. Nicaraguans like to refer to their country as the "país de lagos y volcanes"; the country of lakes and volcanoes.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Managua and León.

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is the capital and largest city of Nicaragua. A city that saw the death of Sandino, the rise of the Somozas, and their fall from power at the hand of the Sandinistas, is full of history and the closest thing to a metropolis Nicaragua has.

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Founded in 1524, is one of the oldest cities in the Americas. With colonial splendor, it is the intellectual center of Nicaragua, renowned for its university, old churches, fine museums, revolutionary history and student life.

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is the oldest colonial city in Nicaragua and the all-time-rival of Leon. It is on the northwest side of the Lago Cocibolca. Its colored colonial buildings, interesting history and relative safety make it an important tourism destination.

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The is the region surrounding , the capital of Nicaragua.

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is a region in Nicaragua known for its surfing beaches and pristine nature. It includes lake coast and islands on the enormous Lake Nicaragua.

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The is a region in Nicaragua which borders in the south to Plains of the North, …

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is a region along the Pacific coast in western Nicaragua. It has beautiful beaches, impressive volcanoes and colonial cities and churches.

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is a mountainous coffee growing region in northern Nicaragua.

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is a region in Nicaragua.

Nicaragua

Latitude of center
12.683° or 12° 40′ 59″ north
Longitude of center
-85.078° or 85° 4′ 41″ west
Population
5,730,000
Area
129,494 km² (49,998 miles²)
Elevation
130 metres (427 feet)
Capital
Currency
Cordoba (NIO)
Phone code
.ni
Internet domain
505
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424316671
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
3617476
Wiki­data ID
Q811
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Nicaragua” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Nikaragua”
  • Adyghe: “Никарагуа”
  • Afrikaans: “Nicaragua”
  • Akan: “Nekaraguwa”
  • Albanian: “Nikaragua”
  • Albanian: “Nikaraguaja”
  • Amharic: “ኒካራጓ”
  • Amis: “Nicaragua”
  • Angika: “निकारागुआ”
  • Arabic: “نيكاراجوا”
  • Arabic: “نيكاراغوا”
  • Aragonese: “Nicaragua”
  • Armenian: “Նիկարագուա”
  • Arpitan: “Nicaragoa”
  • Assamese: “নিকাৰাগুৱা”
  • Asturian: “ni”
  • Asturian: “Nicaragua”
  • Atayal: “Nicaragua”
  • Aymara: “Nikarwa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nikaraqua”
  • Balinese: “Nikaragua”
  • Bambara: “Nikaragwa”
  • Bashkir: “Никарагуа Республикаһы”
  • Bashkir: “Никарагуа”
  • Basque: “Nikaragua”
  • Batak Toba: “Nikaragua”
  • Bavarian: “Nicaragua”
  • Belarusian: “Нікарагуа”
  • Bengali: “নিকারাগুয়া”
  • Bengali: “নিকারাগোয়া”
  • Betawi: “Nikaragua”
  • Bhojpuri: “निकारागुआ”
  • Bishnupriya: “নিকারাগুয়া”
  • Bislama: “Nikaragwa”
  • Bosnian: “Nikaragva”
  • Breton: “Nicaragua”
  • Bulgarian: “Никарагуа”
  • Bulgarian: “Република Никарагуа”
  • Burmese: “နီကာရာဂွာ”
  • Burmese: “နီကာရာဂွါ”
  • Burmese: “နီကာရာဂွါနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Nicaragua”
  • Cebuano: “Nicaragua”
  • Central Bikol: “Nikaragua”
  • Central Kurdish: “نیکاراگوا”
  • Chavacano: “Nicaragua”
  • Chechen: “Никарагуа”
  • Chinese: “Nicaragua”
  • Chinese: “尼加拉瓜”
  • Chinese: “尼加拉瓜共和国”
  • Chuvash: “Никарагуа”
  • Cornish: “Nikaragwa”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Nikaragua”
  • Croatian: “Nikaragva”
  • Czech: “Nikaragua”
  • Dagbani: “Nicaragua”
  • Danish: “Nicaragua”
  • Dhivehi: “ނިކަރާގުއާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Nikaragua”
  • Dotyali: “निकाराग्वा”
  • Dutch: “NI”
  • Dutch: “NIC”
  • Dutch: “Nicaragua”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Nicaragua”
  • Dzongkha: “ནི་ཀྲ་ཝ་ག”
  • Eastern Mari: “Никарагуа”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نيكاراجوا”
  • Erzya: “Никарагуа”
  • Esperanto: “NI”
  • Esperanto: “Nikaragvo”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Nikaragvo”
  • Estonian: “Nicaragua”
  • Estonian: “Nikaraagua”
  • Ewe: “Nicaragua”
  • Ewe: “Nicaraguadukɔ”
  • Extremaduran: “Nicarágua”
  • Faroese: “Nikaragua”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Nicaragua”
  • Fijian: “Nicaragua”
  • Finnish: “Nicaragua”
  • Finnish: “Nicaraguan tasavalta”
  • French: “la République du Nicaragua”
  • French: “NCA”
  • French: “ni”
  • French: “NI”
  • French: “NIC”
  • French: “Nicaragua”
  • French: “République du Nicaragua”
  • French: “République nicaraguayenne”
  • Fulah: “Nikaraaguwa”
  • Fulah: “Nikaraguwaa”
  • Gagauz: “Nikaragua”
  • Galician: “Nicaragua”
  • Ganda: “Nikaraguwa”
  • Georgian: “ნიკარაგუა”
  • German: “Nicaragua”
  • German: “Nikaragua”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Nicaragua”
  • Gilaki: “نيکاراگۊئه”
  • Goan Konkani: “Nicaragua”
  • Goan Konkani: “निकारागुआ”
  • Greek: “Νικαράγουα”
  • Guarani: “Nikaragua”
  • Guarani: “Nikarágua”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Nikaragwa”
  • Gujarati: “નિકારાગુઆ”
  • Haitian: “Nikaragwa”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Nicaragua”
  • Hausa: “NCA”
  • Hausa: “Nicaragua”
  • Hausa: “Nikaraguwa”
  • Hebrew: “ניקאראגואה”
  • Hebrew: “ניקרגואה”
  • Hindi: “निकारागुआ”
  • Hungarian: “Nicaragua”
  • Hungarian: “Nicaraguai Köztársaság”
  • Hungarian: “Nikaragua”
  • Icelandic: “Níkaragva”
  • Ido: “Nikaragua”
  • Igbo: “Nicaragua”
  • Iloko: “Nicaragua”
  • Inari Sami: “Nicaragua täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Nicaragua”
  • Indonesian: “Nicaragua”
  • Indonesian: “Nikaragua”
  • Interlingua: “Nicaragua”
  • Interlingue: “Nicaragua”
  • Irish: “Nicearagua”
  • Italian: “Nicaragua”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Nikaragua”
  • Japanese: “ニカラグァ”
  • Japanese: “ニカラグア”
  • Japanese: “ニカラグア共和国”
  • Japanese: “ニカラグワ”
  • Javanese: “Nikaragua”
  • Kabiyè: “Nikaraguwa”
  • Kabyle: “Nikaragwa”
  • Kalaallisut: “Nicaragua”
  • Kalmyk: “Никарагудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ನಿಕರಾಗುವ”
  • Kannada: “ನಿಕಾರಾಗುವಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Nikaragua”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Никарагуа”
  • Kashmiri: “Nikāraguvā”
  • Kashmiri: “ناکاراگُوا”
  • Kazakh: “Никарагуа”
  • Khmer: “នីការ៉ាក្វា”
  • Khmer: “នីការ៉ាហ្គា”
  • Kikuyu: “Nikaragwa”
  • Kinaray-A: “Nikaragwa”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Nikaragwa”
  • Kirghiz: “Никарагуа”
  • Komi: “Никарагуа”
  • Kongo: “Nikaragwa”
  • Korean: “니까라과”
  • Korean: “니카라과”
  • Kotava: “Nicaragua”
  • Kurdish: “Nîkaragua”
  • Ladin: “Nicaragua”
  • Ladino: “Nikaragua”
  • Lao: “ນິກຄາຣາກົວ”
  • Latin: “Nicaragua”
  • Latvian: “Nikaragva”
  • Ligurian: “Nicaragua”
  • Limburgan: “Nicaragua”
  • Lingala: “Nikalagwa”
  • Lingala: “Nikaragwa”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Nicaragua”
  • Literary Chinese: “尼加拉瓜”
  • Lithuanian: “Nikaragva”
  • Livvi: “Nikaragua”
  • Lojban: “nikaraguas”
  • Lombard: “Nicaragua”
  • Low German: “Nicaragua”
  • Low German: “Nikaragua”
  • Low German: “Republik Nikaragua”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Nikaragua”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Nikaragwa”
  • Luxembourgish: “Nicaragua”
  • Macedonian: “Никарагва”
  • Macedonian: “Никараква”
  • Madurese: “Nikaragua”
  • Malagasy: “Nicaragua”
  • Malagasy: “Nikaragoa”
  • Malagasy: “Nikaragoà”
  • Malay: “Nicaragua”
  • Malayalam: “നിക്കരാഗ്വ”
  • Maltese: “in-Nikaragwa”
  • Maltese: “Nikaragwa”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika tan-Nikaragwa”
  • Manipuri: “ꯅꯤꯀꯥꯔꯒ꯭ꯋꯥ”
  • Manx: “y Nickeraag”
  • Manx: “Yn Nickeraag”
  • Maori: “Nikarāhua”
  • Marathi: “निकाराग्वा”
  • Mazanderani: “نیکاراگوئه”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Nicaragua”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nicaragua”
  • Minangkabau: “Nikaragua”
  • Mingrelian: “ნიკარაგუა”
  • Mirandese: “Ñicarágua”
  • Moksha: “Никарагуа”
  • Mongolian: “Никарагуа”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “نيكاراڭوا”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “نيكاراݣوا”
  • Nauru: “Nikaragua”
  • Navajo: “Naakaii Tábąąhí Bikéyah”
  • Nepali: “निकारागुवा”
  • Nepali: “निकाराग्वा”
  • Newari: “निकारागुआ”
  • North Ndebele: “Nicaragua”
  • Northern Frisian: “Nikaraagua”
  • Northern Sami: “Nicaragua dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Nicaragua”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nicaragua”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Nicaragua”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nicaragua”
  • Norwegian: “Nicaragua”
  • Novial: “Nikaragua”
  • Nyanja: “Nicaragua”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nicaragua”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Nicānlond”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Nicaragua”
  • Oriya: “ନିକାରାଗୁଆ”
  • Oromo: “Nikaraagu’aa”
  • Ossetian: “Никарагуæ”
  • Pali: “निकारगुवा”
  • Pampanga: “Nicaragua”
  • Pampanga: “Nikaragua”
  • Panjabi: “ਨਿਕਾਰਾਗੁਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Nicaragua”
  • Persian: “نیکاراگوآ”
  • Persian: “نیکاراگوئه”
  • Persian: “نیکاراگوا”
  • Picard: “Nicaragua”
  • Piemontese: “Nicaragua”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Nicaragua”
  • Polish: “Nikaragua”
  • Portuguese: “Nicarágua”
  • Portuguese: “República da Nicaragua”
  • Pushto: “NCA”
  • Pushto: “نکاراګوا”
  • Pushto: “نيکاراګوای”
  • Pushto: “نیکاراګوا”
  • Quechua: “Nicaragua”
  • Quechua: “Nikarawa”
  • Rakhine: “နီကာရာဂွာ သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ”
  • Romanian: “Nicaragua”
  • Romansh: “Nicaragua”
  • Rundi: “Nicaragua”
  • Rundi: “Nikaragwa”
  • Russia Buriat: “Никарагуа”
  • Russian: “Никарагуа”
  • Russian: “Республика Никарагуа”
  • Rusyn: “Никарагуа”
  • Sakizaya: “Nicaragua”
  • Samoan: “Nikaragua”
  • Samogitian: “Nėkaragva”
  • Sango: “Nikaragua”
  • Sanskrit: “निकारगुवा”
  • Santali: “ᱱᱤᱠᱟᱨᱟᱜᱩᱣᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Nicaràgua”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Nicaragua”
  • Scots: “Nicaragua”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Niocaragua”
  • Serbian: “Nikaragva”
  • Serbian: “Никарагва”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nikaragva”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းၼီႇၵႃႇရႃႇၵႂႃႇ”
  • Shona: “Nicaragua”
  • Sicilian: “Nicaragua”
  • Silesian: “Ńikaragua”
  • Silesian: “Ńikaraguja”
  • Sindhi: “نڪاراگوا”
  • Sindhi: “نڪراگوا”
  • Sinhala: “නිකරගුවාව”
  • Sinhala: “නිකැරගුවා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Nicaragua tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Nicaragua”
  • Slovak: “Nikaragua”
  • Slovak: “Nikaragujská republika”
  • Slovenian: “Nikaragva”
  • Somali: “Nikaraaguwa”
  • Somali: “Nikaragiwa”
  • Somali: “Nikaragua”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نیکاراقوئه”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نیکاراگوئه”
  • Spanish: “Nicaragua”
  • Spanish: “Republica de Nicaragua”
  • Spanish: “República de Nicaragua”
  • Spanish: “Salve a ti, Nicaragua”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵏⵉⴽⴰⵔⴰⴳⵡⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Nikaragua”
  • Swahili: “Nikaragua”
  • Swahili: “Nikaragwa”
  • Swati: “INikhalaga”
  • Swedish: “Nicaragua”
  • Swiss German: “Nicaragua”
  • Tagalog: “Nicaragua”
  • Tajik: “Никарагуа”
  • Talysh: “Nikaragua”
  • Talysh: “Nikaraqua”
  • Tamil: “நிகரகுவா”
  • Tamil: “நிக்கராகுவா”
  • Taroko: “Nicaragua”
  • Tatar: “Никарагуа”
  • Telugu: “నికరాగువా”
  • Telugu: “నికరాగ్వా”
  • Telugu: “నికారాగువా”
  • Tetum: “Nikarágua”
  • Thai: “นิการากัว”
  • Thai: “นิคารากัว”
  • Thai: “ประเทศนิการากัว”
  • Thai: “สาธารณรัฐนิการากัว”
  • Tibetan: “ནི་ཀ་ར་གུ་ཝ།”
  • Tibetan: “ནི་ཀ་ར་གུ་ཨ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ኒካራጓ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Nikalakua”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Nicaragua”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “نيكاراڨوا”
  • Turkish: “Nikaragua Cumhuriyeti”
  • Turkish: “Nikaragua”
  • Turkmen: “Nikaragua”
  • Udmurt: “Никарагуа”
  • Uighur: “نىكاراگۇئا”
  • Ukrainian: “Нікарагва”
  • Ukrainian: “Нікарагуа”
  • Ukrainian: “Нікараґуа”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Nikaragua”
  • Urdu: “نکاراگوا”
  • Urdu: “نکاراگووا”
  • Uzbek: “Nikaragua”
  • Venetian: “Nicaragua”
  • Venetian: “Nigaragua”
  • Veps: “Nikaragua”
  • Vietnamese: “Ni-ca-ra-goa (Nicaragua)”
  • Vietnamese: “Ni-ca-ra-goa”
  • Vietnamese: “Nicaragua”
  • Vlaams: “Nicaragua”
  • Vlax Romani: “Nicaragua”
  • Volapük: “Nikaraguvän”
  • Võro: “Nicaragua”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nicaragua”
  • Wayuu: “Nikaraawa”
  • Welsh: “Nicaragua”
  • Welsh: “Nicaragwa”
  • Western Armenian: “Նիքարակուա”
  • Western Frisian: “Nicaragua”
  • Western Frisian: “Nikaragûa”
  • Western Mari: “Никарагуа”
  • Western Panjabi: “نکاراگوا”
  • Wolof: “Nikaraaguwa”
  • Wolof: “Nikaraguwa”
  • Wu Chinese: “尼加拉瓜”
  • Yakut: “Никарагуа”
  • Yiddish: “ניקאראגוא”
  • Yiddish: “ניקאַראַגוע”
  • Yoruba: “Nikaragua”
  • Yoruba: “Nikarágúà”
  • Yue Chinese: “尼加拉瓜”
  • Zeeuws: “Nicaragua”
  • Zhuang: “Nicaragua”
  • Zulu: “i-Nicaragua”
  • Zulu: “Nicaragua”
  • “Kwakapolkan”
  • “Kwakapolkan Axkayotl”
  • “ma Nikalawa”
  • “Nėkaragva”
  • “NI”
  • “NIC”
  • “Nicaragua”
  • “Nikarawah”
  • “Nikarawah Axkayotl”
  • “निकारागुआ”

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