Honduras in other languages: names, Tegucigalpa and the 18 departments
Honduras is Honduras in Spanish, officially the República de Honduras, coded HN, HND and 340 in ISO 3166-1. The tables give the name in 169 languages and the capital Tegucigalpa in 62, then the 18 departments with their seats and the words of the anthem.
Official languagesSpanish (español)
Checked
- alpha-2
- HN
- alpha-3
- HND
- numeric
- 340
República de Honduras
- English
- HondurasRepublic of Honduras
- Capital
- TegucigalpaTegucigalpa
ISO 3166-1, checked 28 October 2026. Flag after the Wikimedia Commons drawing.
Honduras in other languages: list of exonyms
| Languages | ISO 639-3 | Name | Romanised |
|---|---|---|---|
| English, Afrikaans, Breton, Czech, Danish, Lower Sorbian, Estonian, Basque, Faroese, Finnish, Kven, French, Franco-Provençal, Friulian, Galician, Guarani, Hausa, Croatian, Upper Sorbian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Italian, Javanese, Jersey Norman French, Lingala, Ladin, Dutch, Norwegian, Novial, Polish, Portuguese, Romansh, Romanian, Aromanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Northern Sami, Spanish, Sardinian, Saterland Frisian, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Võro, Walloon, Zazaki, German, Luxembourgish, Low German | eng / afr / bre / ces / dan / dsb / est / eus / fao / fin / fkv / fra / frp / fur / glg / grn / hau / hrv / hsb / hun / ina / ind / ita / jav / jnf / lin / lld / nld / nor / nov / pol / por / roh / ron / rup / slk / slv / sme / spa / srd / stq / swa / swe / tur / vor / wln / zza / deu / ltz / nds | Honduras | same as written |
| Crimean Tatar, Gagauz, Moldovan, Slovio | crh / gag / mol / slo | Honduras / Хондурас | Honduras |
| Asturian, Catalan | ast / cat | Hondures | same as written |
| Karakalpak, Turkmen | kaa / tuk | Gonduras / Гондурас | Gonduras |
| Kinyarwanda, Kirundi | kin / run | Hondura | same as written |
| Tetum, Tagalog | tet / tgl | Onduras | same as written |
| Aragonese | arg | Onduras, Honduras, Fonduras | same as written |
| Azerbaijani | aze | Honduras / Һондурас | Honduras |
| Bambara | bam | Ondirasi | same as written |
| Bosnian | bos | Honduras / Хондурас / حۉندۆراس | Honduras |
| Cornish | cor | Hondouras | same as written |
| Welsh | cym | Hondiwras | same as written |
| Esperanto | epo | Honduro | same as written |
| West Frisian | fry | Hondueras | same as written |
| Scottish Gaelic | gla | Hondùras | same as written |
| Irish, Icelandic | gle / isl | Hondúras | same as written |
| Manx | glv | Ny Hondooraghyn | same as written |
| Haitian Creole | hat | Ondiras | same as written |
| Igbo | ibo | Họnduras | same as written |
| Kurmanji Kurdish | kur | Hondûras | same as written |
| Latin | lat | Honduria | same as written |
| Latvian | lav | Hondurasa | same as written |
| Lithuanian | lit | Hondūras | same as written |
| Latgalian | ltg | Hondurass | same as written |
| Malagasy | mlg | Hondorasa | same as written |
| Maltese | mlt | Ħonduras | same as written |
| Malay | msa | Honduras / هوندوراس | Honduras |
| Nahuatl | nah | Zōllān | same as written |
| Norman French | nrm | Houndura | same as written |
| Occitan | oci | Onduràs, Honduras | same as written |
| Quechua | que | Unduras | same as written |
| Kalderash Romani | rmy | Honduras / होन्दुरास | Honduras |
| Sicilian | scn | Ondura | same as written |
| Samogitian | smg | Huondūrs | same as written |
| Samoan | smo | Honetura | same as written |
| Albanian | sqi | Hondurasi | same as written |
| Silesian | szl | Hůnduras | same as written |
| Uzbek | uzb | Gonduras / Гондурас / گاندۇرەس | Gonduras |
| Vietnamese | vie | Hôn-đu-rát | same as written |
| Volapük | vol | Hondurän | same as written |
| Wolof | wol | Onduuras | same as written |
| Old Church Slavonic | chu | Ондоу́расъ | Ondúrasŭ |
| Abkhaz, Abaza, Altai, Avar, Chuvash, Kabardian, Khakas, Komi, Karachay-Balkar, Kumyk, Lezgi, Meadow Mari, Mongolian, Ossetian, Russian, Tuvan, Udmurt, Kalmyk | abk / abq / alt / ava / chv / kbd / kjh / kom / krc / kum / lez / mhr / mon / oss / rus / tyv / udm / xal | Гондурас | Gonduras |
| Bashkir, Chechen | bak / che | Гондурас / Gonduras | Gonduras |
| Bulgarian, Yakut | bul / sah | Хондурас | Ȟonduras |
| Rusyn, Ukrainian | rue / ukr | Гондурас | Honduras |
| Belarusian | bel | Гандурас / Handuras | Handuras |
| Kazakh | kaz | Гондурас / گوندۋراس / Gondwras | Gondwras |
| Kyrgyz | kir | Гондурас / گوندۇراس / Gonduras | Gonduras |
| Kurdish (Caucasus) | kmr | Һондурас / Hondûras, Гондурас / Gondûras | Hondûras, Gondûras |
| Macedonian | mkd | Хондурас | Honduras |
| Serbian | srp | Хондурас / Honduras | Honduras |
| Tatar | tat | Гондурас / Honduras / ھوندۇراس | Honduras |
| Tajik | tgk | Ҳондурас / هاندورس / Honduras, Гондурас / گاندورس / Gonduras | Honduras, Gonduras |
| Arabic | ara | هندوراس, الهندوراس, هوندوراس, الهوندوراس | Hundūrās, al-Hundūrās, Hūndūrās, al-Hūndūrās |
| South Azerbaijani | azb | هوندوراس / Honduras | Honduras |
| Sorani Kurdish | ckb | هندۆراس / Hindoras, هۆندوراس / Honduras | Hindoras, Honduras |
| Persian | fas | هندوراس / Hondurâs | Hondurâs |
| Western Punjabi | pnb | ہانڈورس | Hānḋūras |
| Dari, Pashto | prs / pus | هاندوراس | Hāndūrās |
| Uyghur | uig | ھوندۇراس / Honduras / Һондурас | Honduras |
| Urdu | urd | ہنڈوراس, ہونڈوراس, ہانڈوراس, ہنڈورا, ہونڈیورس | Hanḋūrās, Hōnḋūrās, Hānḋūrās, Hanḋūrā, Hōnḋiyūras |
| Dhivehi | div | ހޮންޑިއުރާސް, ހޮންޑިއުރަސް | Honḋiurās, Honḋiuras |
| Hebrew | heb | הונדורס, הונדוראס | Hōndūras, Hōndūrās |
| Ladino | lad | אונדוראס / Onduras | Onduras |
| Yiddish | yid | האָנדוראַס | Honduras |
| Berber | ber | ⵀⵓⵏⴷⵓⵔⴰⵙ / Hunduras | Hunduras |
| Amharic | amh | ሆንዱራስ | Honduras |
| Greek (Demotic) | ell | Ονδούρα, Ονδούρας | Ondoýra, Ondoýras |
| Greek (Katharevousa) | ell | Χονδούρας, Ὁνδούρας | Ȟondoýras, Hondoýras |
| Armenian | hye | Հոնդուրաս | Hondouras |
| Georgian, Mingrelian | kat / xmf | ჰონდურასი | Hondurasi |
| Laz | lzz | ჰონდურასი / Hondurasi | Hondurasi |
| Hindi | hin | हांडूरस, हाण्डूरस, होंडुरस, होन्डूरास | Hāṃḍūras, Hāṇḍūras, Hoṃḍuras, Honḍūrās |
| Bengali | ben | হণ্ডুরাস, হন্ডুরাস | Hôṇḍurās, Hônḍurās |
| Gujarati | guj | હોન્ડુરસ | Honḍuras |
| Odia | ori | ହୋଣ୍ଡୁରାସ | Hoṇḍurās |
| Punjabi | pan | ਹਾਨਡੂਰਸ | Hānḍūras |
| Sinhala | sin | හොන්ඩියුරාස් | Honḍiyurās |
| Kannada | kan | ಹೊಂಡುರಾಸ್ | Hoṃḍurās |
| Malayalam | mal | ഹോണ്ടുറാസ് | Hōṇṭuṟās |
| Tamil | tam | ஹொண்டூராஸ், ஹோண்டுராஸ் | Hoṇṭūrās, Hōṇṭurās |
| Telugu | tel | హోండూరస్ | Hōṃḍūras |
| Chinese | zho | 洪都拉斯 | Hóngdōulàsī |
| Japanese | jpn | ホンデュラス, ホンジュラス | Hondurasu, Honjurasu |
| Korean | kor | 온두라스 | Onduraseu |
| Tibetan | bod | ཧོང་དུ་ར་སི། | Hoṅ.du.ra.si |
| Burmese | mya | ဟွန်ဒူရပ် | Hũduẏaʿ |
| Thai | tha | ฮอนดูรัส | Hɔ̄ndūrât |
| Khmer | khm | ហុងឌូរ៉ាស់, ហុងឌូរ៉ាស, ហុងឌុយរាស | Huṅdūras, Huṅdūrās, Huṅduyrās |
Hondiwras, Gonduras, Zōllān: one name, many spellings
Spanish, English, German, Czech and dozens of other languages write Honduras unchanged. Catalan and Asturian say Hondures, Welsh Hondiwras, Icelandic and Irish Hondúras, and Maltese spells the sound with its own letter, Ħonduras. Manx turns the name into a plural with the article, Ny Hondooraghyn, and Latin forms a country name in -ia, Honduria. Nahuatl uses a word of its own, Zōllān.
Russian and the languages that follow its spelling begin with Г: Гондурас, Gonduras, in Russian, Kazakh, Tatar and Avar, and the same G in the Latin forms of Turkmen and Uzbek. Bulgarian, Macedonian and Serbian keep the H as Х, Хондурас. Greek writes Ονδούρα or Ονδούρας, and Katharevousa, the older learned norm, Χονδούρας. Japanese allows ホンデュラス beside ホンジュラス, and Chinese writes 洪都拉斯, Hóngdōulàsī.
The capital travels with fewer changes. Tegucigalpa stays as it is in Spanish, English and French; Baltic languages write Tegusigalpa, Esperanto Tegucigalpo, and Russian adds a soft sign, Тегусигальпа. Nahuatl again goes its own way with Teōcuitlapan, and Bengali reads the c as ch, তেগুচিগালপা, Tegučigālpā.
Tegucigalpa in other languages
| Languages | ISO 639-3 | Name | Romanised |
|---|---|---|---|
| English, French, Spanish, German, Luxembourgish, Low German, Irish | eng / fra / spa / deu / ltz / nds / gle | Tegucigalpa | same as written |
| Latvian, Lithuanian, Samogitian, Tetum, Tagalog | lav / lit / smg / tet / tgl | Tegusigalpa | same as written |
| Azerbaijani | aze | Tequsiqalpa / Тегусигалпа | Tequsiqalpa |
| Bosnian | bos | Tegucigalpa / Тегусигалпа / تەغۆسٖىغالپا | Tegucigalpa |
| Esperanto | epo | Tegucigalpo | same as written |
| Basque | eus | Teguzigalpa | same as written |
| Haitian Creole | hat | Tegousigalpa | same as written |
| Kurmanji Kurdish | kur | Tegûsîgalpa | same as written |
| Moldovan | mol | Tegucigalpa / Тегусигалпа | Tegucigalpa |
| Malay | msa | Tegucigalpa / تݢوسيݢالڤا | Tegucigalpa |
| Nahuatl | nah | Teōcuitlapan | same as written |
| Turkmen | tuk | Tegusigalpa / Тегусигальпа | Tegusigalpa |
| Uzbek | uzb | Tegusigalpa / Тегусигальпа / تېگۇسىگەلپە | Tegusigalpa |
| Old Church Slavonic | chu | Тєгоусига́лпа | Tegusigálpa |
| Mongolian, Russian | mon / rus | Тегусигальпа | Tegusigal'pa |
| Bashkir | bak | Тегусигальпа / Tegusigalpa | Tegusigalpa |
| Belarusian | bel | Тэгусігальпа / Tehusihalpa | Tehusihalpa |
| Bulgarian | bul | Тегусигалпа | Tegusigalpa |
| Chuvash | chv | Тегусигальпӑ | Tegusigal'pă |
| Kazakh | kaz | Тегусигальпа / تەگۋسيگالپا / Tegwsïgalpa | Tegwsïgalpa |
| Kabardian | kbd | Тегусигальпэ | Tegusigal'pă |
| Kyrgyz | kir | Тегусигальпа / تەگۇسىگالپا / Tegusigalpa | Tegusigalpa |
| Ossetian | oss | Тегусигальпӕ | Tegusigal'pä |
| Serbian | srp | Тегусигалпа / Tegusigalpa | Tegusigalpa |
| Tatar | tat | Тегусигальпа / Tegusigalpa / تېگۇسىگالپا | Tegusigalpa |
| Tajik | tgk | Тегусигалпа / تیگوسیگلپه / Tegusigalpa | Tegusigalpa |
| Ukrainian | ukr | Теґусіґальпа | Tegusigal'pa |
| Arabic | ara | تيغوسيغالبا, تيجوسيجالبا | Tīġūsīġālbā, Tīgūsīgālbā |
| South Azerbaijani | azb | تئقوسیقالپا / Tequsiqalpa | Tequsiqalpa |
| Persian | fas | تگوسیگالپا / Tegusigâlpâ | Tegusigâlpâ |
| Pashto | pus | تېګوسي ګلپه, تېګوسي ګلپا | Tegūsīgalpâ, Tegūsīgalpā |
| Uyghur | uig | تېگۇسىگالپا / Tégusigalpa / Тегусигальпа | Tégusigalpa |
| Urdu | urd | تیگوسیگلپا | Tēgūsīgalpā |
| Hebrew | heb | טגוסיגלפה, טגוסיגאלפה | Ṭegūsīgalpah, Ṭegūsīgālpah |
| Yiddish | yid | טעגוסיגאַלפּע | Tegusigalpe |
| Amharic | amh | ቴጉሲጋልፓ | Tegusigalpa |
| Greek | ell | Τεγκουσιγκάλπα | Tegkoysigkálpa |
| Armenian | hye | Տեգուսիգալպա | Tegousigalpa |
| Georgian | kat | ტეგუსიგალპა | Tegusigalpa |
| Hindi | hin | टेगुसिगाल्पा | Ṭegusigālpā |
| Bengali | ben | তেগুচিগালপা | Tegučigālpā |
| Punjabi | pan | ਟੀਗੂਸੀਗਾਲਪਾ | Ṭīgūsīgālpā |
| Kannada | kan | ಟೆಗುಸಿಗಲ್ಪ | Ṭegusigalpa |
| Malayalam | mal | തെഗൂസിഗാല്പ | Tegūsigālpa |
| Tamil | tam | டெகுசிகல்பா | Ṭekucikalpā |
| Telugu | tel | టెగుసిగల్పా | Ṭegusigalpā |
| Chinese | zho | 特古西加爾巴/特古西加尔巴 | Tègǔxījiā'ěrbā |
| Japanese | jpn | テグシガルパ | Tegushigarupa |
| Korean | kor | 테구시갈파 | Tegusigalpa |
| Thai | tha | เตกูซิกัลปา | Tēkūsikânpā |
| Khmer | khm | តេហ្គុស៊ីហ្គាល់ប៉ា | Tehkusīhkalbā |
The 18 departments of Honduras and their seats
Every department is called Departamento de followed by its name. The table gives the Spanish form, the ISO code and the departmental seat.
| ISO 3166-2 | Spanish | English | Administrative centre | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departments departamentos18 | ||||
| HN-AT | Departamento de Atlántida | Atlántida | La CeibaLa Ceiba | |
| HN-CH | Departamento de Choluteca | Choluteca | CholutecaCholuteca | |
| HN-CL | Departamento de Colón | Colón | TrujilloTrujillo | |
| HN-CM | Departamento de Comayagua | Comayagua | ComayaguaComayagua | |
| HN-CP | Departamento de Copán | Copán | Santa Rosa de CopánSanta Rosa de Copán | |
| HN-CR | Departamento de Cortés | Cortés | San Pedro SulaSan Pedro Sula | |
| HN-EP | Departamento de El Paraíso | El Paraíso | YuscaránYuscarán | |
| HN-FM | Departamento de Francisco Morazán | Francisco Morazán | TegucigalpaTegucigalpa | |
| HN-GD | Departamento de Gracias a Dios | Gracias a Dios | Puerto LempiraPuerto Lempira | |
| HN-IB | Departamento de Islas de la Bahía | Islas de la Bahía | RoatánRoatán | |
| HN-IN | Departamento de Intibucá | Intibucá | La EsperanzaLa Esperanza | |
| HN-LE | Departamento de Lempira | Lempira | GraciasGracias | |
| HN-LP | Departamento de La Paz | La Paz | La PazLa Paz | |
| HN-OC | Departamento de Ocotepeque | Ocotepeque | Nueva OcotepequeNueva Ocotepeque | |
| HN-OL | Departamento de Olancho | Olancho | JuticalpaJuticalpa | |
| HN-SB | Departamento de Santa Bárbara | Santa Bárbara | Santa BárbaraSanta Bárbara | |
| HN-VA | Departamento de Valle | Valle | NacaomeNacaome | |
| HN-YO | Departamento de Yoro | Yoro | YoroYoro | |
Codes: ISO 3166-2:HN on the ISO Online Browsing Platform, read from its English Wikipedia mirror on 28 October 2026; the entry has had no code change since 1998, only a source list update in 2011. Spanish names and seats: the 2016 edition of this list.
Seats and the Distrito Central
Five departments share the name of their seat: Choluteca, Comayagua, La Paz, Santa Bárbara and Yoro. In Copán and Ocotepeque the seat adds to it, Santa Rosa de Copán and Nueva Ocotepeque. The other eleven are seated in towns with names of their own, from La Ceiba in Atlántida and San Pedro Sula in Cortés to Puerto Lempira in Gracias a Dios and Gracias in the department of Lempira, the name that also stands in the third stanza of the anthem.
Besides the departments the list names one district, the Distrito Central, with Tegucigalpa as its seat. It lies inside the department of Francisco Morazán, whose seat is also Tegucigalpa, and ISO 3166-2 gives it no code of its own.
Himno Nacional de Honduras: Tu bandera es un lampo de cielo
The Spanish text of the national anthem: the chorus, then the 7 numbered stanzas, which tell the history of the country from the arrival of Columbus to independence.
- Coro (chorus): Tu bandera es un lampo de cielo / Por un bloque, de nieve cruzado / Y se ven en su fondo sagrado / Cinco estrellas de pálido azul / En tu emblema que mar rumoroso / Con sus ondas bravías escuda, / De un volcán, tras la cima desnuda / Hay un astro, de nítida luz.
- India virgen y hermosa dormías / De tus mares al canto sonoro, / Cuando echada en tus cuencas de oro / El audaz navegante te halló / Y al mirar tu belleza extasiado / Al influjo ideal de tu encanto, / La orla azul de tu espléndido manto / Con su beso de amor consagró.
- De un país donde el sol se levanta, / Mas allá del Atlante azulado, / Aquel hombre que te había soñado / Y en tu busca a la mar se lanzó. / Cuando erguiste la pálida frente, / En la viva ansiedad de tu anhelo, / Bajo el dombo gentil de tu cielo / Ya flotaba un extraño pendón.
- Era inútil que el indio tu amado / Se aprestara a la lucha con ira, / Porque envuelto en su sangre Lempira, / En la noche profunda se hundió / Y de la épica hazaña, en memoria, / La leyenda tan sólo ha guardado / De un sepulcro el lugar ignorado / Y el severo perfil de un peñón.
- Por tres siglos tus hijos oyeron / El mandato imperioso del amo / Por tres siglos tu inútil reclamo / En la atmósfera azul se perdió / Pero un día gloria tu oído / Percibió, poderoso y distante, / Que allá lejos, por sobre el Atlante, / Indignado rugía un León.
- Era Francia, la libre, la heroica, / Que en su sueño de siglos dormida / Despertaba iracunda a la vida / Al reclamo viril de Dantón: / Era Francia, que enviaba a la muerte / La cabeza del Rey consagrado, / Y que alzaba soberbia a su lado, / El Altar de la Diosa razón.
- Tú también, ¡oh mi patria! te alzaste / De tu sueño servil y profundo / Tú también enseñastes al mundo / Destrozado el infame eslabón. / Y en tu suelo bendito, tras la alta / Cabellera del monte salvaje, / Como un ave de negro plumaje, / La colonia fugaz se perdió.
- Por guardar ese emblema divino, / Marcharemos Oh Patria a la muerte, / Generosa será nuestra suerte, / Si morimos pensando en tu amor. / Defendiendo tu santa bandera / Y en tus pliegues gloriosos cubiertos, / Serán muchos, Oh Honduras tus muertos, / Pero todos caerán con honor.
Questions about the names of Honduras
What is the seat of the department of Ocotepeque?
Nueva Ocotepeque. The department code is HN-OC.
Why does Russian write Гондурас?
Russian begins both Honduras and Haiti with Г, Гондурас and Гаити, where the Latin spelling has H. Bulgarian, Macedonian and Serbian use Х instead and write Хондурас.
What are the ISO codes of Honduras?
HN, HND and 340 in ISO 3166-1. The departments run from HN-AT for Atlántida to HN-YO for Yoro.