Honduras–Nicaragua border

{{Short description|International border}}

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The Honduras–Nicaragua border is the roughly {{convert|950|km|mi|adj=mid|-long}} international boundary{{cite web |title=Honduras-Nicaragua border |url=https://www.google.com/maps/@13.927751,-85.5147499,624945m/data=!3m1!1e3 |website=Google Maps |accessdate=7 January 2019}} between Honduras and Nicaragua, running from the Gulf of Fonseca on the Pacific Ocean to the Caribbean Sea. The Coco River, which flows generally northeast to the Caribbean, forms more than half of the border.

The border passes between the following departments, from west to east:

• Honduras – Choluteca, Colón, Olancho, Gracias a Dios.
• Nicaragua – Chinandega, Madriz, Nueva Segovia, Jinotega and North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region.

Honduras and Nicaragua, respectively, were part of the Central American Federation and the United Provinces of Central America{{clarify|both countries were in the same federal association, which had first the latter name and later the former, or at least both links lead to the same article|date=February 2019}}. Between 1823 and 1838, these federations fell apart and both nations gained their independence and defined their border.Munro, Dana. The Five Republics of Central America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1918. pp 24–34.{{Cite web|title = Documentos de la Union Centroamericana|website = Organization of American States – Foreign Trade Information System|url = http://www.sice.oas.org/sica/Studies/DocUnionCentroamericana.pdf|accessdate = October 12, 2014}}

In 1937, the issuance of a stamp from Nicaragua with a sticker on part of Honduran territory indicating "territory in dispute" almost caused a war between the two countries.{{cite web|url=http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/381-the-stamp-that-almost-caused-a-war|title=The Stamp that Almost Caused a War|date=14 September 2012 }} The territory had been claimed by Nicaragua, but Honduras thought the matter closed in 1906 when an arbitration by King Alfonso XIII of Spain gave it the area.