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Capital city
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Tegucigalpa |
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Corruption
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2.6 |
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[111st of 160]
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Parliamentary seats > Female
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9% |
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[74th of 143]
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Procedures to register property > number
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7
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[62nd of 167]
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Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament > %
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23.4 %
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[38th of 174]
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Start-up procedures to register a business > number
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13
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[24th of 171]
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Status
democracy |
Suffrage
18 years of age; universal and compulsory |
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Time required to build a warehouse > days
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199 days
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[73rd of 168]
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Time required to enforce a contract > days
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480 days
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[84th of 171]
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Time required to register property > days
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36 days
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[107th of 167]
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Time required to start a business > days
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44 days
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[63rd of 171]
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Time to prepare and pay taxes > hours
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424 hours
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[34th of 169]
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Time to resolve insolvency > years
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3.8 years
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[51st of 151]
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Trademarks, nonresidents
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3,388
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[16th of 99]
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Trademarks, residents
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1,149
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[37th of 98]
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Transnational Issues > Disputes > International
International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on the delimitation of "bolsones" (disputed areas) along the El Salvador-Honduras border in 1992 with final settlement by the parties in 2006 after an Organization of American States (OAS) survey and a further ICJ ruling in 2003; the 1992 ICJ ruling advised a tripartite resolution to a maritime boundary in the Gulf of Fonseca with consideration of Honduran access to the Pacific; El Salvador continues to claim tiny Conejo Island, not mentioned in the ICJ ruling, off Honduras in the Gulf of Fonseca; Honduras claims the Belizean-administered Sapodilla Cays off the coast of Belize in its constitution, but agreed to a joint ecological park around the cays should Guatemala consent to a maritime corridor in the Caribbean under the OAS-sponsored 2002 Belize-Guatemala Differendum; memorials and countermemorials were filed by the parties in Nicaragua's 1999 and 2001 proceedings against Honduras and Colombia at the ICJ over the maritime boundary and territorial claims in the western Caribbean Sea - final public hearings are scheduled for 2007 |
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UN membership date
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17 Dec. 1945 |
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United Nations mission
http://www.un.int/honduras/
http://www.hondurasemb.org/ |
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Washington, D.C. embassies > Neighborhood
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Cleveland Park |
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