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Managua
12.15° N, 86.27° W
- Population
- 920,000
- Natural Earth
- Population rank
- 1 of 17
- Rank by Natural Earth population among the 17 cities of Nicaragua in Terratlasia that have a population figure. Terratlasia does not list every city of Nicaragua, so this is not a national ranking.
- Founded
- 1819
- Year of founding from Wikidata (P571). Only the year is known, not the day; a city whose sources give more than one year shows no row.
- Area
- 267 km²
- Total area from Wikidata (P2046). Where two statements differ by less than half a percent the smaller is shown; a larger disagreement (land area against total area, say) shows no row.
- Administrative unit
- Managua Department
- The administrative unit Wikidata files this city under (P131), one level below the state. The state itself is shown on its own row and is not repeated here; a city filed under more than three units shows no row at all.
- Time zone
- America/Managua
Traveler brief
Only what this atlas can source — no hours, prices, visas or safety advice.
Practical bearings for Managua, from the same records as the rest of this page.
No places in Managua have been recorded yet. The map and the country page still carry its context.
Overview
Name
Managua takes its name from Lake Managua. The lake's name combines the Guaraní words "ama" for rain and "nagua" for spirit, referring to a local deity.
Source: CIA World Factbook · 2026-02-01 · text generated from this source, approved by a person
