Petén Department
Petén is a department of Guatemala. It is geographically the northernmost department of Guatemala, as well as the largest by area – at 35,854 km2 it accounts for about one third of Guatemala's area.
- Department of Guatemala with 596,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 208 metres (682 feet)
- Also known as“Departamento del Peten”“El Petén”“Petén”
- Neighbors
Places in the Area
Nearby places include San Francisco.
San Francisco
Town
San Francisco is a municipality in the El Petén department of Guatemala. San Francisco is situated 8 km southeast of Petén Department.
Petén Department
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Latitude
16.8333° or 16° 50′ north
Longitude
-90° or 90° west
Open location code
768GR2M2+82
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Western Panjabi—“Petén Department” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ፔተን”
- Arabic: “إدارة بيتين”
- Arabic: “بيتين”
- Armenian: “Պետեն”
- Azerbaijani: “Peten”
- Basque: “Petén”
- Bengali: “পেটেন”
- Bengali: “পেটেনের দপ্তর”
- Bosnian: “Petén”
- Breton: “Departamant Petén”
- Bulgarian: “Петен”
- Catalan: “El Petén”
- Cebuano: “Departamento del Petén”
- Chinese: “佩滕”
- Chinese: “佩滕省”
- Chinese: “佩腾省”
- Chinese: “北碇”
- Chinese: “北碇省”
- Chinese: “沛登省”
- Chinese: “貝登”
- Chinese: “貝登省”
- Chinese: “贝登省”
- Czech: “Petén”
- Danish: “El Peten”
- Danish: “El Petén”
- Danish: “Peten”
- Danish: “Petén”
- Dutch: “El Peten”
- Dutch: “El Petén”
- Dutch: “Petén”
- Esperanto: “Departemento Peten”
- Esperanto: “El Petén”
- Esperanto: “Peten”
- Esperanto: “Petén”
- Esperanto: “Peteno”
- Finnish: “El Petén”
- Finnish: “Peten”
- Finnish: “Petén”
- Finnish: “Péten”
- French: “Département d’El Petén”
- French: “Departement du Peten”
- French: “Département du Petén”
- French: “El Petén”
- French: “Peten”
- French: “Petén”
- Galician: “Departamento de El Petén”
- Galician: “El Petén”
- Galician: “Petén”
- Georgian: “პეტენის დეპარტამენტი”
- German: “Departamento El Petén”
- German: “Departamento Petén”
- German: “Department Peten”
- German: “Department Petén”
- German: “El Peten”
- German: “El Petén”
- German: “GT-PE”
- German: “Peten”
- German: “Petén”
- Greek: “Διαμέρισμα Πετέν”
- Greek: “Ελ Πετέν”
- Greek: “Πετέν”
- Gujarati: “પેટેન વિભાગ”
- Hausa: “Peten”
- Hebrew: “מחוז פטן”
- Hindi: “पीटन विभाग”
- Hindi: “पेटेन विभाग”
- Hindi: “पेतेन विभाग”
- Hungarian: “Petén megye”
- Indonesian: “Departemen El Petén”
- Italian: “dipartimento di Petén”
- Italian: “Dipartimento di Petén”
- Italian: “Petén”
- Japanese: “ペテン県”
- Javanese: “Peten”
- Kannada: “ಪೆಟೆನ್ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
- Kazakh: “Петен”
- Kirghiz: “Петен”
- Korean: “페텐주”
- Ladino: “Petén”
- Latvian: “Petenas departaments”
- Lithuanian: “Petenas”
- Lithuanian: “Peteno departamentas”
- Malay: “Peten Department”
- Marathi: “पेटेन विभाग”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Petén Koān”
- Northern Frisian: “Petén (Department)”
- Northern Frisian: “Petén”
- Northern Sami: “Petén”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Petén”
- Norwegian: “Petén”
- Oromo: “Peten”
- Panjabi: “ਪੇਟੇਨ”
- Persian: “بخش پتن”
- Polish: “Petén”
- Portuguese: “Departamento de El Petén”
- Portuguese: “Departamento de Petén”
- Portuguese: “El Petén”
- Portuguese: “Petén”
- Pushto: “پتن”
- Quechua: “Petén suyu”
- Russian: “Петен”
- Russian: “Эль-Петен”
- Scots: “Petén Depairtment”
- Serbian: “Петен (департман)”
- Serbian: “Петен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Petén (departman)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Petén”
- Sinhala: “පෙටේන් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
- Slovak: “El Petén”
- Slovak: “Petén”
- Slovenian: “Departamento Petén”
- Slovenian: “Departma Petén”
- Slovenian: “GT-PE”
- Somali: “Peten”
- Spanish: “Departamento de Petén”
- Spanish: “El Petén”
- Spanish: “Petén”
- Swahili: “Peten”
- Swedish: “Departamento de Petén”
- Swedish: “Petén”
- Tajik: “Петен”
- Tamil: “பேட்டன் துறை”
- Tatar: “Peten”
- Telugu: “పెటెన్ డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
- Telugu: “పెటెన్ విభాగం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดเปเตน”
- Turkish: “Peten Departmanı”
- Turkish: “Petén”
- Ukrainian: “Петен”
- Urdu: “پیتین ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
- Urdu: “پیتین محکمہ”
- Uzbek: “Peten”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực hành chính Petén”
- Waray (Philippines): “Petén”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ پیٹن”
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