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Chetumal

Chetumal is the capital of in Mexico's . It is on the Bay of Chetumal, a sheltered inlet of the Caribbean Sea at the mouth of the Rio Hondo. This bay, together with the Rio Hondo, forms the border between Mexico and .
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  • Type: City with 169,000 residents
  • Description: city on the east coast of the Yucatán Peninsula and capital of Mexican state Quintana Roo in Mexico
  • Also known as: “Ciudad Chetumal”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Museo de la Cultura Maya.

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a museum.

Chetumal

Latitude
18.5024° or 18° 30′ 9″ north
Longitude
-88.2958° or 88° 17′ 45″ west
Population
169,000
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
IATA airport code
CTM
United Nations Location Code
MX CTM
Open location code
76CHGP23+XM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 269910244
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3531023
Wiki­data ID
Q459553
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Chetumal” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “شيتومال”
  • Armenian: “Չետումալ”
  • Asturian: “Chetumal”
  • Basque: “Chetumal”
  • Belarusian: “Чэтумаль”
  • Bengali: “ছেটুমাল”
  • Breton: “Chetumal”
  • Bulgarian: “Четумал”
  • Catalan: “Chetumal”
  • Cebuano: “Chetumal”
  • Central Kurdish: “چێتومال”
  • Chinese: “Chetumal”
  • Chinese: “切图马尔”
  • Chinese: “切圖馬爾”
  • Czech: “Chetumal”
  • Danish: “Chetumal”
  • Dutch: “Chetumal”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شيتومال”
  • Esperanto: “Chetumal”
  • Estonian: “Chetumal”
  • Finnish: “Chetumal”
  • French: “Chetumal”
  • Georgian: “ჩეტუმალი”
  • German: “Chetumal”
  • German: “Payo Obispo”
  • Greek: “Τσετουμάλ”
  • Gujarati: “ચેટ્યુમલ”
  • Haitian: “Chetumal”
  • Hebrew: “צ’טומל”
  • Hebrew: “צטומל”
  • Hindi: “शेतुमल”
  • Hungarian: “Chetumal”
  • Iloko: “Chetumal”
  • Indonesian: “Chetumal”
  • Interlingua: “Chetumal”
  • Irish: “Chetumal”
  • Italian: “Chetumal”
  • Japanese: “チェトゥマル”
  • Kannada: “ಚೆಟುಮಾಲ್”
  • Kikuyu: “Chetumal”
  • Korean: “체투말”
  • Ladino: “Chetumal”
  • Latvian: “Četumala”
  • Lithuanian: “Četumalis”
  • Malay: “Chetumal”
  • Maltese: “Ċetumal”
  • Marathi: “चेतूमल”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chetumal”
  • Northern Frisian: “Chetumal”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chetumal”
  • Norwegian: “Chetumal”
  • Ossetian: “Четумаль”
  • Persian: “چتومال٬ کینتانا رو”
  • Persian: “چتومال”
  • Polish: “Chetumal”
  • Portuguese: “Chetumal”
  • Quechua: “Chetumal”
  • Russian: “Четумаль”
  • Scots: “Chetumal”
  • Serbian: “Četumal”
  • Serbian: “Chetumal”
  • Serbian: “Ћетумал”
  • Serbian: “Четумал”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chetumal, Quintana Roo”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chetumal”
  • Silesian: “Chetumal”
  • Sinhala: “චෙටුමාල්”
  • Slovenian: “Chetumal”
  • Spanish: “Chetumal”
  • Spanish: “Payo Obispo”
  • Swahili: “Chetumal, Quintana Roo”
  • Swahili: “Chetumal”
  • Swedish: “Chetumal (delstatshuvudstad i Mexiko)”
  • Swedish: “Chetumal”
  • Tamil: “சேதும்மல்”
  • Tatar: “Четумаль”
  • Telugu: “షేతుమల్”
  • Thai: “เชตูมัล”
  • Turkish: “Chetumal”
  • Ukrainian: “Четумаль”
  • Urdu: “چتومال”
  • Venetian: “Chetumal”
  • Vietnamese: “Chetumal”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chetumal”
  • Yue Chinese: “切圖馬爾”
  • “Chetumal”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Chetumal”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.