Comparative Country Analysis

BY AARON PLATEROS
4TH PERIOD WORLD GEOGRAPHY

My 3 Countries
Canada

Cuba

Honduras

1st World Country

2nd World Country

3rd World Countries

Part 1: Comparative Country

Analysis
Canada

Cuba

Honduras

Located in the formal

region of North America

Located in the formal

region of The Caribbean

Located in the formal

region of Central America

Canada's functional
regions include, Toronto,
Quebec, Edmonton,
Winnipeg, Ottawa,
Vancouver and Montreal.

Cubas functional regions

include, Havana, Santiago
de Cuba, Holguin, Santa
Clara, Las Tunas, and Pinar
del Rio

Honduras functional
regions include,
Tegucigalpa, San Pedro
Sula, La Ceiba. El Progeso,
Choluteca, La lima, Danli

Most perceived Canada as

Eskimos or people who are
nice all time.

Cuba is perceived as a
communist evil country
and their people always
smoke big ole cigars

Honduras is perceived as a
country with no future and
its people will never be
good in life.

Part 1: Comparative Country

Analysis
Canada

Absolute Location is
45.4000 N, 75.6667 W

North of United States,

Southwest of Greenland

Most of Canada is the Subarctic and Continental

Humid climate zones.
Landforms in Canada are
mostly plains with
mountains in west and
lowlands in southeast
Not that much vegetation
due to the climate, only
trees for lumber and
bushes.

Cuba

Absolute Location is
23.1333 N, 82.3833 W

South of United States, West of

Haiti, North of Jamaica

Cuba's climate istropicaland

moderated by trade winds.

Landforms in Cuba are mostly

flat to rolling plains, with rugged
hills and mountains in the
southeast.

In Cuba you will find the typical

crops that grow throughout the
Caribbean, like sugar cane and
tobacco.

Cuba has many forms of

vegetation which includes: fruit
trees bearing mango, guava,
grapefruit, and avocado. It is said
that Cuba has more than 70
million palm trees, this being the

Honduras
Absolute

Location is 14.1000 N,
87.2167 W
South of Belize, North of Nicaragua,
East of El Salvador.
Honduras climate falls into the
subtropical in lowlands, temperate in
mountains zones.
Landforms in Honduras are mostly
mountains in interior, narrow coastal
plains
Tree life dominates the landscape
across Honduras. High in the
mountains, forests of coniferous trees
stretch across the slopes, with
species such as Guatemalan fir, Abies
guatemalensis, the Mexican yew,
Taxus globosa, and the Mexican white
pine, Pinus ayacahuite, growing in
great abundance.

Part 1: Comparative Country

Analysis
Canada

Cuba

Honduras

Canada is the world's secondlargest country in total area,

after Russia. Much of Canada
lies in Arctic regions, however,
and thus Canada has only the
fourth most arable land area
behind Russia, China, and the
U.S. The population density is
3.5 people per square
kilometer, which is among the
lowest in the world. While
Canada covers a larger area
than the U.S., it has only oneninth its population.

Cuba is the largest of all

islands in the Caribbean. The
country also includes more
than 4000 other much smaller
islands and cays. Also, the
first communism country in
the western hemisphere.

As Soccer War is known the

armed conflict that occurred as a
result of a military aggression of El
Salvador against Honduras after a
soccer match between the two
countries in 1969. The real reason
of the aggression was to contain
the Salvadoran population
pressure. Hondurans are also
called Catrachos because of
general Florence Xatruch, who
fought in Nicaragua against the
American filibuster William Walker.
Catrachos is a corruption of the
name Xatruch. Here come the
Xatruches they said in the
beginning; within a time they said:
Here come the Catrachos.

Part 2: Comparative Country

Analysis
Canada STAGE 4

Honduras STAGE
2

Cuba STAGE 3

Current population at 35.16

million (2013)

Current population at 11.27

million (2013)

Current population at 8.098

million (2013)

Infant mortality rate at 4.78

per thousand live births

Infant mortality at 5.21 per

thousand live births

Infant mortality rate at 19.28

per thousand live births

The average life expectancy

is 82.5 years

The average life expectancy

is 79.4 years

The average life expectancy

is 74 years

The GNI is 42,270 per captia

The GNI is N/A

The GNI is 3,880 per captia

Government supports pro

neonatal policies and women
do have access to
contraceptives

Government supports pro

neonatal policies and
women do have access to
contraceptives

Government supports nether

policies and women do not
have access to
contraceptives or abortion

Literacy rate is 99%. Male

and Female usually go post
high school

Literacy rate is 99.8 Male

and Female usually go post
high school

Literacy rate is 80% Male

and Female usually drop out
before high school

Part 2: Comparative Country

Analysis
Canada

Cuba

Honduras

80%=URBAN 20=RURAL

75%=URBAN 25%=RURAL

50%=URBAN 50%=RURAL

In 2006 approximately
0.7% of Canadians 15
years and older had
earned a doctorate

N/a

N/a

-3.64 migrants per 1,000

population

-1.18 migrants per1,000

population

Many push factors

Many push factors

United Sates is major

destination for Cuban
migrants

United Sates is major

destination for Honduran
migrants

5.66 migrants per 1,000

population

Many pull factors

Canada is a major
destination point all
around the world

Part 3: Comparative Country

Analysis
Canada

Cuba

In Canada, they modify the

environment by cutting
down trees and through
urbanization.

Depends of renewable
resources

In Cuba, they build around

they environment and try
to preserve much of its
beauty.
Depends of renewable
resources

Honduras

In Honduras, very little to

none of the people modify
the environment.

Depends of renewable
resources

Part 3: Comparative Country

Analysis
Canada

Cuba

Honduras

Canadians love music. Studies

shown that most people listen
to rock genre which heavy
metal or scream-o in Canada.
Shocking knowing that they
are nice people listening to
scary music

In the urban
centers,contradanza, based
on the French, salon
stylecontredanse, evolved
into the still populardanzon.
Urban street music, influenced
by African religious rituals,
Christian religious carnivals
and Caribbean carnival music
similar to Brazils samba
mixed together and gave birth
torumba(not to be confused
with therhumba) and the
conga.

Hondurans love music.Once

you enter the country, you're
practically surrounded by
music everywhere you
go.Hondurans listen to a
varied mix of music, some of
originating line the USA or
Europe and some of it from
different countries in
Latinamerica, such as Mxico
(which has a very strong
recording industry), Brazil,
Colombia, and the Caribbean
Islands. One well known genre
of music is Punta.

Part 3: Comparative Country

Analysis
Canada

Cuba

Most Canadians spend

their free time playing field
hockey

Most Cuban spend their

free time dancing or being
with their family.

Canadas official languages

are English and French.

Cubas official language is

Spanish.

n the 2001 Canadian

national census, 72
percent of the Canadian
population list Roman
Catholicism or
Protestantism as their
religion. The Roman
Catholic Church in Canada
is by far the country's
largest single
denomination.

Cuba's prevailing religion is

Roman Catholicism,
although in some instances
it is profoundly modified
and influenced through
syncretism

Honduras

Most Hondurans spend

their free time with a ball
at their feet. They get a
group of friends and play
Football(Soccer)

Honduras official language

is Spanish, but for many
people that grew up near a
rain forest they speak a
dialect thats a mix of
Spanish and Pig Latin.

84% of Hondurans are

roman catholic

Part 3: Comparative Country

Analysis
Canada
Many ethnicity is Canada
which includes: German,
English, Scottish, Jamaican,
Italian, North American Indian,
Dutch (Netherlands),
American, Polish, Mtis,
Canadian, Vietnamese, Irish
,French, Chinese, East Indian,
Portuguese, Hungarian,
Welsh, Ukrainian, Spanish,
Jewish, Russian, Filipino,
Swedish, Greek, Norwegian,
Danish

Cuba

Honduras

Major ethnicity in Cuba are

White, Mulatto/Mestizo, Black,
Asian

Ethnic groups[edit] Mestizos,

(European mixed with
Amerindian) make up more
than 90% of the population of
Honduras. Amerindians are
6% of the population and
AfroHondurans comprise 1%.
As in other Latin American
countries, the question of
racial breakdown of a national
population is contentious.

Part 3: Comparative Country

Analysis
Canada

Male and Female have

equal rights and both
gender has equal
opportunity to become
politically powerful.

Woman can choose their

role in the family.

No issue with
Homosexuality. Gay
marriage is legal in
Canada.

Cuba

Male and Female do have

equal rights, but male have
more of an opportunity to
become.

Women are free to choose

their role as well, but stick
to the traditional house
wife.

Gay marriage is not legal in

Cuba. So you can have a
ceremony, but it will not be
a marriage. You could get
married somewhere else
and have the ceremony in
Cuba...

Honduras

Male and Female supposed to

have an equal rights, but
females are treated like second
class citizens and women have
more trouble becoming
powerful.

Woman have the role of taking

care of males when they are
injured and traditionally a house
wife.

Gay marriage is not legal. Both

same-sex marriages and
adoption by same-sex couples
have been constitutionally
banned since 2005. On the
bright side, discrimination
against gays is illegal in
Honduras

RESOURCES
"Native Animals & Plants in Honduras." Travel Tips. N.p., n.d. Web. 12
Dec. 2014.
"Cuban Vegetation." Cuba. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Dec. 2014.
"Unique Facts about Canada: Basic Geography." Unique Facts about
Canada: Basic Geography. N.p., 24 Aug. 2012. Web. 14 Dec. 2014.
Tremethick, M.J., Smit, E., (February 21, 2014) "Honduran Nurses WorkRelated Rewards and Challenges: Implications for International Service
Learning and Collaboration" OJIN: The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing
Vol. 19 No. 2.
"Honduran People and Culture." Honduran People and Culture. N.p., n.d.
Web. 16 Dec. 2014.
"Canada- Language, Culture, Customs and Etiquette." CanadaLanguage, Culture, Customs and Etiquette. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Dec. 2014.
"Canada - Language, Culture, Customs and Business Etiquette."
Translation Services | Intercultural Communication | Cross Cultural
Training. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Dec. 2014.