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Jalisco

Guadalajara

Guadalajara is the capital of the central state of in , and the second-largest city in the country, with about a million and a half citizens.
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  • Type: City with 1,390,000 residents
  • Description: capital of the State of Jalisco, Mexico
  • Also known as: “GDL”, “Guadalajara, Jalisco”, “Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico”, “Guadalajara, Mexico”, and “Guadalajara, México”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Guadalajara Cathedral and Teatro Degollado.

Church
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The or Cathedral of the Assumption of Our Lady, located in Centro, Guadalajara, , is the Roman Catholic cathedral of the Archdiocese of Guadalajara and a minor basilica.

Theater building
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is a neoclassical Mexican theater known for its diverse performances and artistic design. It is located in the central plaza of Guadalajara, , Mexico on Belen Street between Hidalgo Avenue and Morelos Avenue.

College
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The Preparatoria De Jalisco is a school upper secondary education located in the historic of Guadalajara in .

Guadalajara

Latitude
20.672° or 20° 40′ 19″ north
Longitude
-103.3384° or 103° 20′ 18″ west
Population
1,390,000
Elevation
1,546 metres (5,072 feet)
IATA airport code
GDL
United Nations Location Code
MX GDL
Open location code
75GRMMC6+RJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1663173902
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4005539
Wiki­data ID
Q9022
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zeeuws—“Guadalajara” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Гвадалахара”
  • Achinese: “Guadalajara”
  • Adyghe: “Гвадалахара”
  • Afrikaans: “Guadalajara”
  • Albanian: “Guadalajara”
  • Amharic: “ጓዳላሓራ”
  • Arabic: “غوادالاخارا”
  • Aragonese: “Guadalajara”
  • Armenian: “Գվադալախարա”
  • Arpitan: “Guadalajara (México)”
  • Arpitan: “Guadalajara”
  • Asturian: “conceyu de Guadalajara”
  • Asturian: “Guadalajara (conceyu de Méxicu)”
  • Asturian: “Guadalajara (Jalisco, Méxicu)”
  • Asturian: “Guadalajara”
  • Asturian: “Guadalaxara”
  • Atikamekw: “Guadalajara”
  • Avaric: “Гвадалахара (Мексика)”
  • Avaric: “Гвадалахара”
  • Aymara: “Guadalajara”
  • Azerbaijani: “Quadalaxara”
  • Balinese: “Guadalajara”
  • Bashkir: “Гвадалахара (Мексико)”
  • Bashkir: “Гвадалахара”
  • Basque: “Guadalajara”
  • Bavarian: “Guadalajara”
  • Belarusian: “Гвадалахара”
  • Belarusian: “Гвадаляхара”
  • Bengali: “গুয়াদালাহারা”
  • Bosnian: “Guadalajara”
  • Breton: “Guadalajara”
  • Buginese: “Guadalajara”
  • Bulgarian: “Гуадалахара”
  • Burmese: “ဂွါဒါလာယာရာ”
  • Catalan: “Guadalajara”
  • Cebuano: “Guadalajara (kapital sa estado)”
  • Cebuano: “Guadalajara Jalisco”
  • Cebuano: “Guadalajara”
  • Central Kurdish: “گوادالاخارە”
  • Chavacano: “Guadalajara”
  • Chechen: “Гвадалахара”
  • Cheyenne: “Guadalajara”
  • Chinese: “Guadalajara, Jalisco”
  • Chinese: “瓜达拉哈拉”
  • Chinese: “瓜達拉哈拉”
  • Chuvash: “Гвадалахара”
  • Cornish: “Guadalajara”
  • Cornish: “Gvadalachara (Meksiko)”
  • Corsican: “Guadalajara”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Guadalahara”
  • Croatian: “Guadalajara”
  • Czech: “Guadalajara”
  • Dagbani: “Guadalajara”
  • Danish: “Guadalajara”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Guadalajara”
  • Dutch: “Guadalajara”
  • Eastern Mari: “Гвадалахара (Мексика)”
  • Eastern Mari: “Гвадалахара”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جوادالاخارا”
  • Esperanto: “Gvadalaharo”
  • Estonian: “Guadalajara”
  • Ewe: “Guadalajara”
  • Extremaduran: “Guadalajara”
  • Faroese: “Guadalajara”
  • Fijian: “Guadalajara”
  • Finnish: “Guadalajara”
  • French: “GDL”
  • French: “Guadalajara”
  • French: “La Perla del Occidente”
  • Galician: “Guadalaxara, México”
  • Galician: “Guadalaxara”
  • Gan Chinese: “瓜达拉哈拉 (墨西哥)”
  • Gan Chinese: “瓜达拉哈拉”
  • Georgian: “გვადალახარა”
  • German: “Guadalajara”
  • Gilaki: “گۊادالاخارا”
  • Greek: “Γουαδαλαχάρα”
  • Guarani: “Guadalajara”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Guadalajara (México)”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Guadalajara”
  • Gujarati: “ગોડલજરા”
  • Haitian: “Guadalajara”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Guā dá lā hā lā”
  • Hausa: “Guadalalajara”
  • Hebrew: “גוודלחרה”
  • Hindi: “ग्वाडलहारा”
  • Hindi: “ग्वादालाहारा”
  • Hungarian: “Guadalajara”
  • Icelandic: “Guadalajara”
  • Ido: “Guadalajara”
  • Iloko: “Guadalajara”
  • Indonesian: “Guadalajara, Meksiko”
  • Indonesian: “Guadalajara”
  • Ingush: “Гвадалахара”
  • Interlingua: “Guadalajara”
  • Interlingue: “Guadalajara”
  • Inuktitut: “ᒍᐊᑕᓚᕼᐋᕋ”
  • Irish: “Guadalajara”
  • Italian: “Guadalajara”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Guadalajara (Mexiko)”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Guadalajara”
  • Japanese: “グアダラハラ”
  • Javanese: “Guadalajara, Jalisco”
  • Javanese: “Guadalajara”
  • Kabardian: “Гуадалахара”
  • Kabyle: “GDL”
  • Kabyle: “Guadalajara”
  • Kalaallisut: “Guadalajara”
  • Kannada: “ಗ್ವಾಡಲಜರ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Guadalajara”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Гвадалахара (Мексика)”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Гвадалахара”
  • Kazakh: “Гвадалахара”
  • Kikuyu: “Guadalajara”
  • Kirghiz: “Гвадалахара”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Гвадалахара (Мексика)”
  • Komi: “Гвадалахара (Мексика)”
  • Kongo: “Guadalajara”
  • Korean: “과달라하라”
  • Kurdish: “Guadalajara”
  • Ladino: “Guadalajara”
  • Latin: “Guadalaxara”
  • Latvian: “Gvadalahara”
  • Lezghian: “Гвадалахара (Мексика)”
  • Lingala: “Guadalajara (Mexiko)”
  • Lingala: “Guadalajara”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Guadalajara”
  • Lithuanian: “Gvadalachara”
  • Lojban: “Guadalajara (mexygu’e)”
  • Lojban: “Guadalajara”
  • Lombard: “Guadalajara”
  • Low German: “Guadalajara”
  • Luxembourgish: “Guadalajara”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Guadalajara (Meksiko)”
  • Macedonian: “Гвадалахара”
  • Malagasy: “Guadalajara”
  • Malay: “Guadalajara”
  • Malayalam: “ഗൗതലജാറ”
  • Malayalam: “ഗ്വാഡലഹാര”
  • Maltese: “Guadalajara”
  • Marathi: “ग्वादालाहारा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Guadalajara”
  • Mingrelian: “გვადალახარა”
  • Moksha: “Гвадалахара”
  • Mon: “ဂွါဒါလာယာရာ”
  • Neapolitan: “Guadalajara”
  • Northern Frisian: “Guadalajara”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Guadalajara”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Guadalajara i Jalisco”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Guadalajara”
  • Norwegian: “Guadalajara”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Guadalajara”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Guadalajara”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Gwaðalahara”
  • Oromo: “Guadalajara (México)”
  • Ossetian: “Гвадалахарæ”
  • Paiwan: “Guadalajara”
  • Panjabi: “ਗੁਆਦਾਲਾਹਾਰਾ”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Guadalajara”
  • Persian: “گوادالاخارا، خالیسکو”
  • Persian: “گوادالاخارا”
  • Piemontese: “Guadalajara (sità)”
  • Piemontese: “Guadalajara”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Guadalajara”
  • Polish: “Guadalajara”
  • Pontic: “Γουαδαλαχάρα (Μεξικό)”
  • Portuguese: “Guadalajara, Jalisco, México”
  • Portuguese: “Guadalajara, Jalisco”
  • Portuguese: “Guadalajara, México”
  • Portuguese: “Guadalajara”
  • Pushto: “ګوادالجارا مکسیکو)”
  • Quechua: “Guadalajara”
  • Romanian: “Guadalajara”
  • Russia Buriat: “Гвадалахара”
  • Russian: “Гвадалахара”
  • Rusyn: “Гвадалахара (Мексико)”
  • Rusyn: “Гвадалахара”
  • Sardinian: “Gadalassara”
  • Sardinian: “Guadalajara”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Guadalajara”
  • Scots: “Guadalajara, Jalisco”
  • Scots: “Guadalajara”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Guadalajara”
  • Serbian: “Гвадалахара”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Guadalajara”
  • Sicilian: “Guadalajara”
  • Silesian: “Guadalajara”
  • Sindhi: “گواڈلہارا”
  • Sindhi: “گواڊلهارا”
  • Sinhala: “ගදලජාරා”
  • Slovak: “Guadalajara”
  • Slovenian: “Guadalajara”
  • South Azerbaijani: “غوادالاخارا (المكسيك)”
  • South Azerbaijani: “غوادالاخارا”
  • Southern Altai: “Гвадалахара”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de las rosas”
  • Spanish: “GDL”
  • Spanish: “Guadalajara”
  • Spanish: “La Perla Tapatía”
  • Swahili: “Guadalajara, Jalisco”
  • Swahili: “Guadalajara”
  • Swedish: “Guadalajara (delstatshuvudstad)”
  • Swedish: “Guadalajara, Mexiko”
  • Swedish: “Guadalajara”
  • Tagalog: “Guadalajara, Jalisco”
  • Tagalog: “Guadalajara”
  • Tahitian: “Guadalajara”
  • Tajik: “Гвадалаҳара”
  • Talysh: “Guadalahara”
  • Talysh: “Guadalajara”
  • Tamil: “குண்டலாஜாரா”
  • Tamil: “குவாதலஹாரா”
  • Tatar: “Гвадалахара”
  • Telugu: “గ్వడలజర”
  • Thai: “กวาดาลาฮารา”
  • Thai: “กัวดาลาฮารา”
  • Turkish: “Guadalajara”
  • Twi: “Guadalajara”
  • Udmurt: “Гвадалахара (Мексико)”
  • Udmurt: “Гвадалахара”
  • Ukrainian: “Гвадалахара”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґвадалахара”
  • Urdu: “گواڈلہارا”
  • Urdu: “وادی الحِجارہ، میکسیکو”
  • Uzbek: “Gvadalahara”
  • Venetian: “Guadalajara”
  • Veps: “Gvadalahar”
  • Vietnamese: “Guadalajara, Jalisco”
  • Vietnamese: “Guadalajara”
  • Vlax Romani: “Guadalajara”
  • Volapük: “Guadalajara”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Guadalajara”
  • Welsh: “Guadalajara”
  • Western Armenian: “Գվադալախարա”
  • Western Frisian: “Guadalajara”
  • Western Mari: “Гвадалахара (Мексика)”
  • Western Panjabi: “گواڈلہارا”
  • Wu Chinese: “瓜达拉哈拉 (墨西哥)”
  • Wu Chinese: “瓜达拉哈拉（墨西哥）”
  • Yakut: “Гвадалахара (Мексика)”
  • Yiddish: “גואַדאַלאַדזשאַראַ (מעקסיקא)”
  • Yiddish: “גוואדאלאכארע”
  • Yue Chinese: “瓜達拉哈拉”
  • Zeeuws: “Guadalajara”
  • “Ātemaxac”
  • “Guadalajara”
  • “Guadalajara (Mèsic)”

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