San Pedro Sula is the capital of the Cortés Department in Honduras. It is situated in the northwest corner of the country within the Sula Valley, located approximately 50 kilometers south of Puerto Cortés on the Caribbean Sea.
The city serves as the primary industrial center of Honduras and is the second-largest city in the nation after the capital, Tegucigalpa. It holds the distinction of being the largest city in Central America that is not a capital city. As of 2023, the central urban area had a population of 701,200, while the broader metropolitan area reached a population of 1,445,598.