Honduras
Honduran Highlands
Francisco Morazán Department

Tegucigalpa

Tegucigalpa is the capital of and largest city in . This 400-year-old mining center has a depth that is there for those with time and nerve to find it.
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  • Type: City with 1,120,000 residents
  • Description: capital and largest city of Honduras
  • Also known as: “Tegucigucigalpa” and “Teuctzincalpan”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estadio Nacional Chelato Uclés and Juan Ramón Molina National Library.

Stadium
Photo: Chifullo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a multi-purpose stadium in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. It is used mostly for association football matches. The stadium has a capacity of 35,000 and is the home of football clubs Motagua and Olimpia.

Library
Photo: Ian Mackenzie, CC BY 2.0.
The is the national library of , containing more than 40,000 volumes. It was founded by Antonio R. Vallejo, with the support of Secretary Marco Aurelio Soto and Ramón Rosa.

Government office
The to Honduras is an ecclesiastical office of the Catholic Church in . It is a diplomatic post of the Holy See, whose representative is called the Apostolic Nuncio with the rank of an ambassador.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Comayagüela.

Town
Photo: Luis Alfredo Romero, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a town.

Tegucigalpa

Latitude
14.1057° or 14° 6′ 21″ north
Longitude
-87.204° or 87° 12′ 14″ west
Population
1,120,000
Elevation
944 metres (3,097 feet)
IATA airport code
TGU
United Nations Location Code
HN TGU
Open location code
766J4Q4W+79
Open­Street­Map ID
node 305138115
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3600949
Wiki­data ID
Q3238
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Tegucigalpa” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Tègucigalpa”
  • Afrikaans: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Albanian: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Amharic: “ቴጉሲጋልፓ”
  • Arabic: “تيجوسيجالبا”
  • Arabic: “تيغوسيغالبا”
  • Aragonese: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Armenian: “Տեգուսիգալպա”
  • Asturian: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Aymara: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tequsiqalpa”
  • Balinese: “Tégucigalpa”
  • Basque: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Basque: “Teguzigalpa”
  • Belarusian: “Тэгусігальпа”
  • Belarusian: “Тэгусыгальпа”
  • Bengali: “তেগুচিগাল্পা”
  • Bengali: “তেগুসিগালপা”
  • Bosnian: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Breton: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Bulgarian: “Тегусигалпа”
  • Catalan: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Cebuano: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Chechen: “Тегусигальпа”
  • Chinese: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Chinese: “德古斯加巴”
  • Chinese: “德古西加巴”
  • Chinese: “特古西加尔巴 / 德古西加巴”
  • Chinese: “特古西加尔巴”
  • Chinese: “特古西加爾巴”
  • Chuvash: “Тегусигальпа”
  • Croatian: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Czech: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Danish: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Tegucigalpa”
  • Dutch: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Eastern Mari: “Тегусигальпа”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تيجوسيجالبا”
  • Esperanto: “Tegucigalpo”
  • Esperanto: “Tegusigalpo”
  • Estonian: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Finnish: “Tegucigalpa”
  • French: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Galician: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Georgian: “ტეგუსიგალპა”
  • German: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Greek: “Τεγκουσιγκάλπα”
  • Greek: “Τεγουσιγάλπα”
  • Guarani: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Gujarati: “ટેગુસિગલ્પા”
  • Haitian: “Tegousigoualpa”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Hebrew: “טגוסיגלפה”
  • Hindi: “टेगुसिगलपा”
  • Hindi: “टेगुसिगाल्पा”
  • Hungarian: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Icelandic: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Ido: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Inari Sami: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Indonesian: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Interlingua: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Interlingue: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Irish: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Italian: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Tigusigalpa”
  • Japanese: “テグシガルパ”
  • Kannada: “ಟೆಗುಸಿಗಲ್ಪಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಟೆಗೂಸಿಗ್ಯಾಲ್ಪ”
  • Kazakh: “Тегусигальпа қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Тегусигальпа”
  • Kikuyu: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Kildin Sami: “Тегусигальпа”
  • Kirghiz: “Тегусигальпа”
  • Korean: “떼구시갈빠”
  • Korean: “테구시갈파”
  • Kotava: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Ladino: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Latin: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Latvian: “Tegusigalpa”
  • Ligurian: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Lingala: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Lithuanian: “Tegusigalpa”
  • Livvi: “Tegusigal’pa”
  • Lombard: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Macedonian: “Тегусигалпа”
  • Malagasy: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Malay: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Malayalam: “ടെഗൂസിഗാൽപ”
  • Maltese: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Marathi: “तेगुसिगल्पा”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Minangkabau: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Mingrelian: “ტეგუსიგალპა”
  • Moksha: “Тэгусигальпа”
  • Mongolian: “Тегусигальпа”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “طيڭوسيڭالپا”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “طيݣوسيݣالپا”
  • Nauru: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Northern Sami: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Norwegian: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Novial: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tegucigalpa”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Tēhugigalpa”
  • Ossetian: “Тегусигальпæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਤੇਗੂਸੀਗਾਲਪਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Persian: “تگوسیگالپا”
  • Piemontese: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Polish: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Portuguese: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Pushto: “تګوسیګالپا”
  • Quechua: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Romanian: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Rundi: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Russian: “Тегусигальпа”
  • Sakizaya: “Tekusiciyapa.hungtulas”
  • Santali: “ᱴᱮᱜᱩᱥᱤᱜᱟᱞᱯᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Scots: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Serbian: “Тегусигалпа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Shona: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Silesian: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Sindhi: “ٽيگوسيگلپا”
  • Sinhala: “ටෙගුසිගල්පා, හොන්ඩුරාස්”
  • Sinhala: “ටෙගූසිගල්පෝ”
  • Skolt Sami: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Slovak: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Slovenian: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Somali: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Spanish: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Spanish: “Teguz, La Capital, Tegus”
  • Swahili: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Swedish: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Swiss German: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Tagalog: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Tajik: “Тегусигалпа”
  • Talysh: “Tegusigalpa”
  • Talysh: “Tequsiqalpa”
  • Tamil: “டகூஸிகால்ப”
  • Tamil: “டெகுசிகல்பா”
  • Tatar: “Тегусигальпа”
  • Telugu: “టెగూసిగల్పా”
  • Thai: “เตกูซิกัลปา”
  • Tibetan: “ཐེ་གུ་སི་གེ་པ།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Turkish: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Turkmen: “Tegusigalpa”
  • Udmurt: “Тегусигальпа”
  • Ukrainian: “Тегусігальпа”
  • Urdu: “ٹیگوسیگلپا”
  • Uzbek: “Tegusigalpa”
  • Venetian: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Veps: “Tegusigal’p”
  • Veps: “Tegusigalp”
  • Vietnamese: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tegucigalpa”
  • Welsh: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Western Frisian: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Western Frisian: “Tegusigalpa”
  • Wu Chinese: “特古西加尔巴”
  • Yakut: “Тегусигалпа”
  • Yiddish: “טעגוסיגאלפע”
  • Yiddish: “טעגוסיגאַלפע”
  • Yoruba: “Tegucigalpa”
  • Yue Chinese: “特古西加爾巴”
  • Zulu: “i-Tegucigalpa”
  • “Tekohtsinkalpan”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Tegucigalpa”. Photo: Nan Palmero, CC BY 2.0.