{"id":18786,"date":"2023-12-30T06:35:50","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T01:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18786"},"modified":"2025-04-05T13:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T07:35:13","slug":"nicaragua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nicaragua\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Nicaragua"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Nicaragua<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a country in Central America and the\u00a0largest of the Central American republics.<\/li>\n<li>Borders:\n<ul>\n<li>The country is bordered by\u00a0Honduras to the north and\u00a0Costa Rica to the south.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0Pacific Ocean provides the\u00a0border\u00a0to the west, and the\u00a0eastern border of the country is\u00a0in the Caribbean Sea.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>History:\n<ul>\n<li>It was the\u00a0only country in Latin America to be\u00a0colonized by both the\u00a0Spanish and the British.<\/li>\n<li>It gained its independence from Spain in 1821 and\u00a0became part of the Mexican Empire for several years.<\/li>\n<li>Then it\u00a0joined a group of nearby countries with a central government in Guatemala City\u00a0called the Provinces of Central America.<\/li>\n<li>Nicaragua\u00a0split from the group in 1838\u00a0and\u00a0became fully independent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Form of Government:\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0Republic. The\u00a0president is elected by popular vote for a five-year term.<\/li>\n<li>Power is divided among four governmental branches: the executive, legislative, judicial, and Supreme Electoral Council.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Capital: Managua<\/li>\n<li>Official Languages:\u00a0Spanish, English, indigenous languages<\/li>\n<li>Currency: Nicaraguan c\u00f3rdoba (NIO)<\/li>\n<li>Population:\n<ul>\n<li>It is made up\u00a0mostly of mestizos (people of\u00a0mixed European and indigenous ancestry).<\/li>\n<li>Most people live in the western Pacific lowland\u00a0region between the Pacific coast and Lake Managua.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is immigration?<\/h3>\n<p>Immigration is the act of moving from one&#8217;s home country to another nation with the intention of settling there permanently. Immigrants may or may not become citizens of their new countries of residence. In the United States, immigrants may become naturalized citizens or remain legally as permanent or conditional residents. People in the country without permission are considered undocumented immigrants. Tourists, foreign students, and others who visit or reside in a country temporarily are not considered immigrants.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/gujarat\/gujarat-police-questions-20-passengers-of-nicaragua-bound-flight-sent-back-by-france-human-trafficking-cid-latest-updates-2023-12-30-909573\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Gujarat Police quizzes 20 passengers of Nicaragua-bound flight sent back by France<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicaragua is a country in Central America and the largest of the Central American republics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}