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Cortés Department

department of Honduras
Administrative Area Department Of Honduras Q767244

Facts

14 properties

Identity

Instance of
department of Honduras
Inception
July 4, 1893[23]

Location

Country
Honduras[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 15.505°, -88.025°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Honduras[2]
Shares border with
Izabal Department, Atlántida Department, Yoro Department, Comayagua Department, Santa Bárbara Department[5][6][7][8][9]

Population and size

Area
+3923[26]
Population
+1562394[24]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 1,562,394 GeoNames 1,621,762 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Located in time zone
UTC−06:00[22]
More facts +5
Capital
San Pedro Sula[4]
Contains the administrative territorial entity
San Pedro Sula, Choloma, Omoa, Pimienta, Potrerillos, Puerto Cortés, San Antonio de Cortés, San Francisco de Yojoa, San Manuel, Santa Cruz de Yojoa, Villanueva, La Lima[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]
Different from
Cortés[25]
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: Honduras/Cortés
Language used
Garifuna[27]
🏷️ Also known as
en Cortés en Cortés Department ar إدارة كورتيس de Departamento Cortés el Κορτές es Cortés es Departamento de Cortés fa استان کورتس he קורטס (מחוז) hi कोर्तेस विभाग hu Cortés megye id Departemen Cortés it dipartimento di Cortés ja コルテス県 ko 코르테스주 ms Cortes Department pt Departamento de Cortés ru Кортес th จังหวัดกอร์เตส tr Cortés Departmanı
🔖 Identifiers · 17
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)
4RnZqi
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)
548661
FIPS 10-4 (countries and regions)
HO06
Freebase ID
/m/02pmtl
GNS Unique Feature ID
-1117974
GeoNames ID
3613140
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
1000581
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
cortes-1
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0020123
HASC
HN.CR
INaturalist place ID
10725
ISO 3166-2 code
HN-CR
Show all 17 identifiers +5
Museum-digital place ID
23101
MusicBrainz area ID
693f589c-86aa-4d7b-b30a-33d76dc8c7c5
OpenStreetMap relation ID
4627389
Topic's main category
Category:Cortés Department
Who's on First ID
85671893

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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 16
San Pedro Sula, Puerto Cortés, Choloma, Villanueva, La Lima, Omoa, San Francisco de Yojoa, San Manuel +8 more
Contains the administrative territorial entity 12
San Pedro Sula, Puerto Cortés, Choloma, Villanueva, La Lima, Omoa, San Francisco de Yojoa, San Manuel +4 more
Shares border with 5
Atlántida Department, Comayagua Department, Izabal Department, Santa Bárbara Department, Yoro Department
← Shares border with 5
Atlántida Department, Comayagua Department, Izabal Department, Santa Bárbara Department, Yoro Department
← Category combines topics 2
Category:People from Cortés Department, Category:Municipalities of the Cortés Department
Capital 1
San Pedro Sula
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Cortés Department
Country 1
Honduras
Different from 1
Cortés
Instance of 1
department of Honduras
Language used 1
Garifuna
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Honduras
Located in time zone 1
UTC−06:00
People born here 1
Wesly Decas
Topic's main category 1
Category:Cortés Department
← Capital of 1
San Pedro Sula
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Cortés Department
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Honduras
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Summary

Cortés Department is a department of Honduras[1].

Related Entities

Honduras

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  23. [24] ↑ . 2013 Honduran census. temp.ine.gob.hn. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 17w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) → 4RnZqi
    Instance of → department of Honduras
    Category of associated people → Category:People from Cortés Department
    Area → 3,923 square kilometre
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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