Quiché Department

Quiché is a department of . It is in the heartland of the Kʼicheʼ people, one of the Maya peoples, to the north-west of . The capital is .
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  • Type: department of Guatemala with 949,000 residents
  • Description: department of Guatemala
  • Also known as: Departamento del Quiche”, “El Quiché”, and “Quiché
  • Neighbors:

Quiché Department

Latitude
15.5° or 15° 30′ north
Longitude
-90.9167° or 90° 55′ west
Population
949,000
Elevation
1,814 metres (5,951 feet)
Open location code
767FG32M+28
Geo­Names ID
3590964
Wiki­data ID
Q669802
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Quiché Department” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: إدارة كويتشي
  • Armenian: Քիչե
  • Basque: Quiché
  • Bengali: কিচে বিভাগ
  • Bosnian: Quiché
  • Breton: Departamant Quiché
  • Bulgarian: Ел Киче
  • Catalan: El Quiché
  • Cebuano: Departamento del Quiché
  • Chinese: Quiché Koān
  • Chinese: 基切省
  • Danish: Quiché Department
  • Dutch: Quiché
  • Esperanto: Departemento Kiĉeo
  • Esperanto: Kiĉeo
  • Finnish: Quiché
  • Finnish: Quichén departmentti
  • French: Département du Quiché
  • French: Quiché
  • Galician: Departamento de El Quiché
  • Georgian: კიჩეს დეპარტამენტი
  • German: Departamento Quiché
  • Greek: Κουιτσέ
  • Gujarati: કુચે વિભાગ
  • Hindi: कीश विभाग
  • Hungarian: Quiché megye
  • Indonesian: Departemen El Quiché
  • Italian: dipartimento di Quiché
  • Italian: Dipartimento di Quiché
  • Japanese: キチェ県
  • Kannada: ಕ್ವಿಚ್ ಇಲಾಖೆ
  • Korean: 키체주
  • Ladino: Quiché
  • Latvian: Kičes departaments
  • Lithuanian: Kičės departamentas
  • Malay: Quiche Department
  • Marathi: क्यूइचे विभाग
  • Min Nan Chinese: Quiché Koān
  • Northern Frisian: Quiché (Department)
  • Northern Frisian: Quiché
  • Northern Sami: El Quiché
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Quiché
  • Norwegian: Quiché
  • Polish: Quiché
  • Portuguese: Departamento de El Quiché
  • Portuguese: Departamento de Quiché
  • Portuguese: El Quiché
  • Portuguese: Quiché
  • Quechua: Quiché suyu
  • Russian: Киче
  • Russian: Эль-Киче
  • Scots: Quiché Depairtment
  • Serbo-Croatian: Quiché
  • Sinhala: කුයිචේ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව
  • Slovak: Quiché
  • Slovenian: Departamento Quiché
  • Slovenian: Departma Quiché
  • Slovenian: Quiché
  • Spanish: Departamento de Quiché
  • Spanish: El Quiché
  • Spanish: Quiché
  • Swedish: Departamento del Quiché
  • Tamil: குய்ச்சே துறை
  • Telugu: క్విచె డిపార్ట్మెంట్
  • Telugu: క్విచె విభాగం
  • Thai: จังหวัดกิเช
  • Turkish: Quiche Departmanı
  • Turkish: Quiché Departmanı
  • Ukrainian: Кіче
  • Urdu: کیتشے ڈیپارٹمنٹ
  • Urdu: کیتشے محکمہ
  • Vietnamese: Quiché
  • Waray (Philippines): Quiché (departamento)
  • Waray (Philippines): Quiché
  • Quiché, Cuauhtēmallān

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