43,278.19 sq mi 112,090.00 sq km (slightly larger than Tennessee)
Population
6,406,052 (July 2001 est.)
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected
In the centuries before the European discovery of Honduras, the region was occupied by the Mayas, whose civilization arose around the fourth century A.D.