What the records say
- When
- 1972
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Honduras
- Coordinates
- 14.79° N, 86.89° W
- Process
- cession
- Type
- Cession (part yielded to other entity)
- Area km2
- 3
- Losing
- United States
Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.
Honduras
Country in Central America
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras, a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea. Its capital and largest city is Tegucigalpa.
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation
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