1. The interior of the country is sparsely populated, with a volcanic landscape reaching a peak of nearly 1,500m high.
2. Around two-thirds of the population are Roman Catholic.
3. Total area is only one per cent the size of Panama.
4. The national symbols are a bird and a flower, with national colours of green, yellow, black, white and red.
5. The country name refers to a day of the week.

This was published in the February 2019 edition of Geographical magazine
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