Baja Verapaz Department

Baja Verapaz is a department in . In 2018, the population of the department was 299,476. The capital is . 78.5% of the department's population identifies as Maya, with 53% belonging to the Achi linguistic group.
Wikipedia
  • Type: department of Guatemala with 271,000 residents
  • Description: department of Guatemala
  • Also known as: “Bacha Verapaso departamentas”, “Baja Verapaz”, “Departement de Baja Verapaz”, “Departma Baja Verapaz”, “Departman Baja Verapaz”, “GT-BV”, “Žemutinis Verapasas”, “باخا ویراپاس ڈیپارٹمنٹ”, “బాజావరపాజ్ విభాగం”, “下韦拉帕斯”, and “下韦拉帕斯省”

Baja Verapaz Department

Latitude
15.0833° or 15° 5′ north
Longitude
-90.3333° or 90° 20′ west
Population
271,000
Elevation
1,244 metres (4,081 feet)
Open location code
767F3MM8+8M
Geo­Names ID
3599602
Wiki­data ID
Q504647
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Western Panjabi—“Baja Verapaz Department” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ባጃ ቬራፓዝ”
  • Arabic: “إدارة بايا فيراباز”
  • Azerbaijani: “Baja Verapas”
  • Basque: “Baja Verapaz”
  • Bengali: “বাজা ভারাপ্যাজ বিভাগ”
  • Bosnian: “Baja Verapaz”
  • Breton: “departamant Baja Verapaz”
  • Breton: “Departamant Baja Verapaz”
  • Bulgarian: “Долен Верапас”
  • Catalan: “Baja Verapaz”
  • Cebuano: “Departamento de Baja Verapaz”
  • Chinese: “下維拉帕斯省”
  • Chinese: “下维拉帕斯省”
  • Chinese: “下韋拉帕斯省”
  • Croatian: “Baja Verapaz”
  • Danish: “Baja Verapaz Department”
  • Dutch: “Baja Verapaz”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Malalta Verapaco”
  • Esperanto: “Malalta Verapaco”
  • Finnish: “Baja Verapazin departementti”
  • French: “Baja Verapaz”
  • French: “Département de Baja Verapaz”
  • Galician: “Departamento de Baja Verapaz”
  • Georgian: “ბახა-ვერაპასის დეპარტამენტი”
  • German: “Departamento Baja Verapaz”
  • Greek: “Μπάχα Βεραπάζ”
  • Greek: “Μπάχα Βεραπάς”
  • Gujarati: “બાજા વેરાપાઝ વિભાગ”
  • Hausa: “Baja Verapas”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז באחה וראפאס”
  • Hindi: “बाख़ा बेरापास विभाग”
  • Hindi: “बाखा वेरापाज़ विभाग”
  • Hungarian: “Baja Verapaz megye”
  • Indonesian: “Baja Verapaz”
  • Italian: “dipartimento di Baja Verapaz”
  • Italian: “Dipartimento di Baja Verapaz”
  • Japanese: “バハ・ベラパス県”
  • Javanese: “Baja Verapas”
  • Kannada: “ಬಾಜಾ ವೆರಾಪಾಜ್ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Баха Верапас”
  • Kirghiz: “Баха Верапас”
  • Korean: “바하베라파스주”
  • Ladino: “Basha Verapaz”
  • Latvian: “Bahaverapasas departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Žemutinio Verapaso departamentas”
  • Malay: “Baja Verapaz Department”
  • Malay: “Jabatan Baja Verapaz”
  • Marathi: “बाजा वेरापाझ विभाग”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Baja Verapaz Koān”
  • Northern Frisian: “Baja Verapaz (Department)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Baja Verapaz”
  • Northern Sami: “Baja Verapaz”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Baja Verapaz”
  • Norwegian: “Baja Verapaz”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Departament de Baja Verapaz”
  • Oromo: “Baja Verapas”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਾਹਾ ਵੇਰਾਪਾਜ਼”
  • Persian: “بخش باجا وراپاز”
  • Polish: “Baja Verapaz”
  • Portuguese: “Baja Verapaz”
  • Pushto: “باها ورا پاز”
  • Quechua: “Urin Verapaz suyu”
  • Russian: “Баха-Верапас”
  • Scots: “Baja Verapaz Depairtment”
  • Scots: “Baja Verapaz”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Baja Verapaz”
  • Sinhala: “බජා වෙරපාස් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
  • Slovak: “Baja Verapaz”
  • Slovenian: “Departamento Baja Verapaz”
  • Somali: “Baja Verapas”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Baja Verapaz”
  • Swahili: “Baja Verapas”
  • Swedish: “Departamento de Baja Verapaz”
  • Tajik: “Баха Верапас”
  • Tamil: “பாஜா வேர்ப்பஸ் துறை”
  • Tatar: “Baja Verapas”
  • Telugu: “బాజావరపాజ్ డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดบาฮาเบราปัซ”
  • Turkish: “Baja Verapaz”
  • Ukrainian: “Баха-Верапас”
  • Urdu: “باخا ویراپاس محکمہ”
  • Uzbek: “Baja Verapas”
  • Uzbek: “Baja Verapaz bo’limi”
  • Uzbek: “Baja Verapaz Department”
  • Vietnamese: “Baja Verapaz”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Baja Verapaz”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ باجا ویراپاز”
  • “Baja Verapaz”

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