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142  SELLING  LATIN  AMERICA
of  the  Pacific  Ocean  on  its  south  and  Nicaragua ­
  on  the  east.
Nicaragua  has  49,200  square  miles  of  territory ­
  with  700,000  inhabitants,  mostly  Indians,
and  mixed  breeds,  with  a  gradual  increasing
of  the  white  race.  Honduras  runs  diagonally
across  from  northeast  to  southwest,  the  Pacific
Ocean  is  on  its  west  coast,  Costa  Rica  on  the
southern  frontier,  and  the  Caribbean  Sea
washes  its  eastern  boundary.
Costa  Rica  covers  23,000  square  miles  and
has  399,424  citizens,  about  7000  being  Europeans, ­
  Americans  or  from  the  West  Indies.
There  are  about  3000  Indians  and  the  remainder ­
  whites,  blacks  and  mulattoes.  Its  northern ­
  neighbor  is  Nicaragua,  the  Caribbean  Sea
washes  its  eastern  shore,  Panama  is  its  southern ­
  boundary,  while  the  Pacific  Ocean  laves
its  entire  western  coast.
Panama,  33,800  square  miles  in  extent,  with
about  400,000  inhabitants,  and  varying  in
width  from  37  to  no  miles,  needs  little  description. ­
  It  is  bounded  on  the  north  by
Costa  Rica,  on  the  east  by  the  Caribbean  Sea,