Guatemala
Baja Verapaz Department
Municipio de Salamá

Salamá

Salamá is a city in . It is the capital of the department of Baja Verapaz and it is situated at 940 m above sea level. The municipality of Salamá, for which the city of Salamá serves as the administrative centre, covers a total surface area of 764 km2 with a population of 65,275 inhabitants at the 2018 census.
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  • Type: City with 14,700 residents
  • Description: municipality and capital of Baja Verapaz Department, Guatemala
  • Also known as: “Salama”

Salamá

Latitude
15.1021° or 15° 6′ 8″ north
Longitude
-90.3146° or 90° 18′ 52″ west
Population
14,700
Elevation
936 metres (3,071 feet)
United Nations Location Code
GT SLM
Open location code
767F4M2P+R5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 430956963
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3590616
Wiki­data ID
Q1023655
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Thai—“Salamá” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سالاما”
  • Asturian: “Salamá”
  • Basque: “Salamá”
  • Cebuano: “Municipio de Salamá”
  • Cebuano: “Salamá”
  • Chinese: “Salamá”
  • Chinese: “萨拉马”
  • Chinese: “薩拉馬”
  • Dutch: “Salamá”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سالاما”
  • French: “Salamá”
  • Galician: “Salamá”
  • German: “Salamá”
  • Indonesian: “Salamá”
  • Italian: “Salamá”
  • Japanese: “サラマ”
  • Korean: “살라마”
  • Ladino: “Salamá”
  • Lithuanian: “Salama”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Salamá”
  • Northern Sami: “Salamá”
  • Persian: “سالاما”
  • Polish: “Salamá”
  • Portuguese: “Salamá”
  • Russian: “Салама”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Salamá”
  • Slovenian: “Salama”
  • Slovenian: “Salamá”
  • Spanish: “Salama”
  • Spanish: “Salamá”
  • Spanish: “Zalama”
  • Swedish: “Municipio de Salamá”
  • Swedish: “Salamá”
  • Thai: “ซาลามา”
  • “Salamá”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Salamá”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.