(WIPO code: NI) (last revised March 2024)
by Guy José BENDAÑA-GUERRERO & ASOCIADOS, Law Offices, Managua
Nicaragua
General Information
Area
130,373.5 sq. km.
Population
6.8 million (estimated July 2023).
Capital
Managua, with about 1.4 million inhabitants (July 2022).
Language
Spanish.
Currency
Cordoba
Most important agricultural and industrial products
Gold, silver, fats, hides, gum, indigo, mahogany, sugar, bananas, coffee, cotton, meat.
General Remarks
The country has valuable forests and some gold is mined, but it is essentially a land of agriculture and stockbreeding. On the broad tropical plains of the east coast, bananas and sugar cane are cultivated. The chief imports are textiles, machinery, chemicals and flour; the chief exports are coffee, cotton, sugar, bananas, timber, meat and hides.
The prevailing religion is Roman Catholicism.