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Nicaragua

Nicaragua stretches from the Pacific to the Caribbean, with a line of volcanoes and two great lakes in the west and rainforest in the east. Independent from Spain since 1821, its colonial city of Granada sits on the shore of Lake Nicaragua.

The twin volcanic cones of Ometepe island rising across the open water of Lake Nicaragua under heavy cloud

Ometepe, in Lake Nicaragua

Photo: Guillaume Baviere from Uppsala, Sweden, CC BY-SA 2.0

The blue stripes stand for the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, white for peace. The coat of arms shows five volcanoes between two oceans under a rainbow and a cap of liberty.

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