Nicaragua

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PROFILE
  • Area: 130,370 sq. km (50,336 sq. mi.)
  • Population: 5,966,798 (2016 est.)
  • Population growth rate: 0.99% (2016 est.)
  • Life expectancy: 73.2 years (2016)
  • Languages: Spanish (official) 95.3%, Miskito 2.2%, Mestizo of the Caribbean coast 2%
  • Religions: Roman Catholic 58.5%, Protestant 23.2% (Evangelical 21.6%, Moravian 1.6%), Jehovah's Witnesses 0.9%, other 1.6%, none 15.7%
  • Formal name: Republic of Nicaragua
  • Alternate names: Republic of Nicaragua, República de Nicaragua
  • Government type: presidential republic
  • Leaders: chief of state and head of government: President Jose Daniel ORTEGA Saavedra
  • Capital: Managua
  • Administrative divisions: 15 departments and 2 autonomous regions
  • GDP per capita (PPP): $5,000 (2015 est.)
  • Exports: coffee, beef, gold, sugar, peanuts, shrimp and lobster, tobacco, cigars, automobile wiring harnesses, textiles, apparel, cotton
  • Imports: consumer goods, machinery and equipment, raw materials, petroleum products
  • Currency: cordoba (NIO)
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