Nicaragua

• 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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