Honduras, AKA the Banana Republic, is one of my personal favorite countries on earth.  Nicknamed "The Banana Republic" because of the prominence of the banana industry and the foreign influence that came along with foreign investment in the United Fruit Company, Honduras is a beautiful mountainous country of 6.8 million people, with a land mass of 111,890 sq. kilometers.

Despite the having the advantage of ports on both the Caribbean and Pacific coasts, Honduras is the only Central American country with no volcanoes, so the soil is less fertile than in other volcanic regions.  So though Honduras has had less civil violence than neighboring countries such as El Salvador and Guatemala to the north, and Nicaragua to the south, much the Honduran population continues to live in severe poverty.  In fact, approximately 53% of the population lived below the poverty line as of 2003, most of which populate rural farming areas.  Although a significant portion of the Honduran population works in agriculture, there are important clothing production industries, especially in the north in and around San Pedro Sula, as well as other foreign owned industries including shrimping along the Pacific Coast in the Golfo de Fonseca.