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of the Pacific Ocean on its south and Nica 
ragua on the east. 
Nicaragua has 49,200 square miles of terri 
tory 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 Euro 
peans, Americans or from the West Indies. 
There are about 3000 Indians and the remain 
der whites, blacks and mulattoes. Its north 
ern neighbor is Nicaragua, the Caribbean Sea 
washes its eastern shore, Panama is its south 
ern 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 de 
scription. It is bounded on the north by 
Costa Rica, on the east by the Caribbean Sea,