What the records say
- When
- 1971
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Nicaragua
- Coordinates
- 12.67° N, 85.07° W
- Process
- cession
- Type
- Cession (part yielded to other entity)
- Pop
- 2116
- Area km2
- 6
- Losing
- United States
Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.
Nicaragua
Country in Central America
Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is a country in Central America, comprising 130,370 square kilometers (50,340 sq mi). With a population of 7,097,329 as of 2026, it is the third-most populous country in Central America after Guatemala and Honduras, and the largest by area in all of Central America.
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation
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