Map of Nicaragua

Nicaragua is located in North America. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 13.0° N, 85.0° W. It shares land borders with 2 countries — Costa Rica and Honduras — and also has its own coastline. Within North America, a continent of 23 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, Nicaragua is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Nicaragua shares land frontiers with the following 2 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Nicaragua covers about 130,373 km² (50,337 sq mi). That makes it the 96th-largest country in the world by area and the 4th-largest in North America, larger by area than 19 of the continent’s 23 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 6,803,886, the 107th-largest in the world and the 9th-largest in North America, accounting for about 1.1% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Nicaragua has an average population density of about 52 people per km². Among the 23 countries of North America it stands 9th by population and 4th by area.

The seat of government is Managua, and the official currency is the Nicaraguan córdoba (NIO, C$), and the main official language is Spanish. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC-06:00.

Nicaragua carries the ISO country codes NI and NIC, dials on the international calling code +505 and uses the .ni internet domain.

Nicaragua shares its land borders with 2 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Honduras (capital Tegucigalpa, about 9,892,632 people) and Costa Rica (capital San José, about 5,309,625 people).

By area, Nicaragua is larger than 2 of these neighbours and smaller than 0 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 13.0° N, 85.0° W and opens at zoom level 6, framing Nicaragua within North America. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Managua. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Nicaragua lies about 1,443 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Nicaragua keeps a single standard time zone, UTC-06:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit -06:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Nicaraguan córdoba (NIO, C$).

The official language is Spanish, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +505 and websites commonly use the .ni internet domain.

In short, Nicaragua is a coastal country in North America, sharing land borders with 2 countries. Its capital is Managua. Nicaragua has a population of about 6,803,886 and covers around 130,373 km² (50,337 sq mi), ranking it 107th in the world by population and 96th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Nicaragua.

The flag of Nicaragua is composed of three equal horizontal bands of blue, white and blue, with the national coat of arms centered in the white band.

The flag of Nicaragua is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.