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Departmental capitals of Nicaragua

17 departmental capitals, each one drawn on a satellite globe. Name it when it lights up, find it when you are given its name, or type every one you can remember in Name all.

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The departmental capitals

  1. 1Managua1.1 M
  2. 2León177 k
  3. 3Masaya141 k
  4. 4Chinandega116 k
  5. 5Matagalpa114 k
  6. 6Estelí112 k
  7. 7Granada107 k
  8. 8Bilwi86 k
  9. 9Jinotega58 k
  10. 10Bluefields56 k
  11. 11Juigalpa54 k
  12. 12Ocotal50 k
  13. 13Jinotepe41 k
  14. 14Rivas36 k
  15. 15Boaco26 k
  16. 16Somoto21 k
  17. 17San Carlos17 k

Capitals of first-level administrative units (states, provinces, regions): the capital Wikidata records for the unit (P36), else the seat GeoNames records for it (PPLA); a second, summer or winter capital is left out. A national capital is in only where it is also its unit’s seat (Canberra for the Australian Capital Territory, Brasília for the Federal District), not where the unit has another capital (Ottawa: Toronto; Amsterdam: Haarlem). Nicaragua’s own list of its cities: the population of each city as Thomas Brinkhoff: City Population (citypopulation.de), from INIDE, estimates counts it (Nicaragua: Cities & Towns (estimate, 2023-06-30), 30 June 2023), the way the country ranks its cities. A city that is not one of the list’s cities of 10,000 people or more is left out. Metro area, urban centre and city proper rank the same cities by the worldwide measures instead, so they compare across borders. Sources: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), Thomas Brinkhoff: City Population, citypopulation.de, after INIDE, estimates, 2023-06-30 (CC BY 3.0), Wikidata names and capitals (CC0).

On the map

Map of Departmental capitals of Nicaragua, 17 departmental capitals: each one marked on the globe

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