1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Honduras
Compare this sourced profile of Tegucigalpa, Honduras before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Tegucigalpa—850,848, America/Tegucigalpa, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital and largest city of Honduras.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Tegucigalpa is GeoNames ID 3600949. Its recorded administrative path is Distrito Central → Francisco Morazan Department → Honduras, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Tegucigalpa occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2024-09-12; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Tegucigalpa ranks 654 by recorded population. Inside the 2 selected Honduras entries it ranks 1; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 93. Its 850,848 population value is 1.03 times the 826,054 median for the country cohort and 1.04 times the 816,326 regional median. Tegucigalpa is rank 1 among the 2 selected Honduras entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Tegucigalpa's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Tegucigalpa's three nearest other atlas coordinates are San Pedro Sula at 181.183 km with 801,259 recorded people; San Salvador at 218.18 km with 525,990 recorded people; Managua at 240.194 km with 973,087 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 59.011 km. Compared with San Pedro Sula, Tegucigalpa's recorded population is 1.06 times as large. Against Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula follows San Pedro Sula → Cortes Department → Honduras in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Honduras cohort, uses the shared America/Tegucigalpa identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Tegucigalpa's. Against Tegucigalpa, San Salvador follows San Salvador Department → El Salvador in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected El Salvador cohort rather than Honduras, uses America/El_Salvador instead of America/Tegucigalpa, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is below Tegucigalpa's. Against Tegucigalpa, Managua follows Managua Department → Nicaragua in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Nicaragua cohort rather than Honduras, uses America/Managua instead of America/Tegucigalpa, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is above Tegucigalpa's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 952 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Tegucigalpa's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 3600949, the coordinate pair 14.0818 / 87.2068, country rank 1 of 2, and neighbor GeoNames 3601782 at 181.183 km bind Tegucigalpa to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Tegucigalpa's reference point is 14.0818° north and 87.2068° west. The IANA identifier America/Tegucigalpa is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Tegucigalpa's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Tegucigalpa's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Tegucigalpa's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Tegucigalpa, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Tegucigalpa's closest other entries in this atlas are San Pedro Sula (181.183 km), San Salvador (218.18 km), Managua (240.194 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-09-12; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.