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Granada Department
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Department in western Nicaragua centered on the colonial city of Granada on Lake Nicaragua
Key facts
- Country
- Nicaragua
- Capital
- Granada
- Total
- 1,040 km (400 sq mi)
- Density
- 211/km (546/sq mi)
- Iso 3166 2
- NI-GR
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- department of Nicaragua
- Country
- Nicaragua
- Located in
- Nicaragua
- Contains
- Nandaime
- Capital
- Granada
- Population
- 168186
- Area
- 1040
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Shares border with
- Masaya Department
- Image
- Nicaragua 2017-03-15 (33978834845).jpg
- Licence plate code
- GR
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- Commons category
- Granada Department
- topic's main category
- Category:Granada Department
- native label
- Granada
- different from
- Granada
- inception
- 1858-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Granada is an administrative division and department in northwestern Nicaragua. The city of Granada serves as the capital of the department. It is spread over an area of 1,040 km (400 sq mi) and had a population of 219,244 inhabitants in 2023.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Granada Department” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.