Tegucigalpa
Tegucigalpa is the capital of and largest city in Honduras. This 400-year-old mining center has a depth that is there for those with time and nerve to find it.Photo: Luis Alfredo Romero, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Nan Palmero, CC BY 2.0.
- 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 Chelato Uclés National Stadium and Juan Ramón Molina National Library.
Chelato Uclés National Stadium
Stadium
The Chelato Uclés National Stadium 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.
Juan Ramón Molina National Library
Library
Photo: Ian Mackenzie, CC BY 2.0.
The Juan Ramón Molina National Library is the national library of Honduras, containing more than 40,000 volumes. It was founded by Antonio R. Vallejo, with the support of the president, Marco Aurelio Soto and secretary general, Ramón Rosa.
Centro Cultural de España Tegucigalpa
Arts center
Photo: Urteca, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Centro Cultural de España Tegucigalpa is an arts center.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Comayagüela.
Comayagüela
Town
Photo: Luis Alfredo Romero, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tegucigalpa —formally Tegucigalpa, Municipality of the Central District, and colloquially referred to as Tegus or Teguz—is the capital and largest city of Honduras along with its sister city, Comayagüela.
Tegucigalpa
- Categories: big city, largest city, administrative territorial entity, and locality
- Location: Francisco Morazán Department, Honduran Highlands, Honduras, Central America, North America
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Latitude
14.1057° or 14° 6′ 21″ northLongitude
-87.204° or 87° 12′ 14″ westPopulation
1,120,000Elevation
944 metres (3,097 feet)IATA airport code
TGUUnited Nations Location Code
HN TGUOpen location code
766J4Q4W+79OpenStreetMap ID
node 305138115OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3600949Wikidata 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”
- Central Kurdish: “تێگوسیگالپا”
- 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”
- Dzongkha: “ཏེ་གུ་སི་གཱལ་པ།”
- 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”
- Hindi: “तेगुसिगाल्पा”
- 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”
- 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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