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Guatemala

Guatemala has a rich and distinctive culture from the extended mixing of Spanish settlers and the Maya people who are native to . This diverse history and the natural beauty of the land have created a destination rich in interesting and scenic sites.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Guatemala City and Antigua Guatemala.

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is the capital of Guatemala, a country in . With a population of around 3 million people, is the largest and most modern city in Guatemala.

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La was the colonial Spanish capital of Central America. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and is perhaps Guatemala's most popular tourist destination.

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is a large archaeological site in the Guatemalan department of Petén. During the Classic Period it was one of the largest and most important of the Mayan cities.

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The are a lush and beautiful mountainous region in Guatemala, stretching from the outskirts of to the Mexican border. The region is defined by two main features: the Sierra Madre, a mountain range of volcanoes on its south side, and the tall mountain ranges that form the northern side.

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The of Guatemala stretch from the foothills of the Cuchumatanes, Chama, and Santa Cruz mountain ranges northwards, including the northern part of the Alta Verapaz department, the extreme north of El Quiché department, and all of Guatemala's extensive Petén department.

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The is the region around , stretching northwards to the in Guatemala.

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The is a region in Guatemala. It consists of the rolling foothills of the Sierra Madre, extending across the wide Pacific plain to beautiful beaches, stretching from the Mexican border in the west to the border of El Salvador in the east.

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is a hilly region in lowland Guatemala. It has a largely Ladino population, and a ranching culture.

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is a region in Guatemala.

Guatemala

Latitude of center
15.644° or 15° 38′ 38″ north
Longitude of center
-90.33° or 90° 19′ 48″ west
Population
17,200,000
Area
108,890 km² (42,043 miles²)
Elevation
1,376 metres (4,514 feet)
Capital
Currency
Quetzal (GTQ)
Phone code
.gt
Internet domain
502
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
3595528
Wiki­data ID
Q774
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Guatemala” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Гватемала”
  • Achinese: “Guatemala”
  • Adyghe: “Гуатемалэ”
  • Afrikaans: “Guatemala”
  • Akan: “Guwatemala”
  • Albanian: “Guatemala”
  • Albanian: “Guatemalë”
  • Amharic: “ጉዋቲማላ”
  • Amharic: “ጓቴማላ”
  • Amis: “Guatemala”
  • Amis: “Kuatimala”
  • Angika: “ग्वाटेमाला”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية غواتيمالا”
  • Arabic: “جواتيمالا”
  • Arabic: “غواتيمالا”
  • Aragonese: “Guatemala”
  • Armenian: “Գվատեմալա”
  • Arpitan: “Goatemala”
  • Assamese: “গুৱাটেমালা”
  • Asturian: “gt”
  • Asturian: “Guatemala”
  • Asturian: “República de Guatemala”
  • Atayal: “Guatemala”
  • Aymara: “Watimala”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qvatemala”
  • Balinese: “Guatemala”
  • Balinese: “Guatémala”
  • Bambara: “Gatemala”
  • Bambara: “Gwatemala”
  • Bashkir: “Гватемала”
  • Basque: “Guatemala”
  • Batak Toba: “Guatemala”
  • Bavarian: “Guatemala”
  • Belarusian: “Гватэмала”
  • Belarusian: “Ґватэмала”
  • Bengali: “গুয়াতেমালা”
  • Bengali: “গোয়াটিমালা”
  • Bengali: “গোয়াতিমালা”
  • Betawi: “Guatémala”
  • Bhojpuri: “ग्वाटेमाला”
  • Bishnupriya: “গুয়াতেমালা”
  • Bislama: “Gwatemala”
  • Bosnian: “Gvatemala”
  • Breton: “Guatemala”
  • Bulgarian: “Гватемала”
  • Burmese: “ဂွါတီမာလာ”
  • Burmese: “ဂွါတီမာလာနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Guatemala”
  • Catalan: “República de Guatemala”
  • Cebuano: “Guwatemala”
  • Central Bikol: “Guatemala”
  • Central Kurdish: “گواتیمالا”
  • Chavacano: “Guatemala”
  • Chechen: “Гватемала”
  • Cherokee: “ᏩᏔᎹᎳ”
  • Cheyenne: “Guatemala”
  • Chinese: “Guatemala”
  • Chinese: “危地馬拉”
  • Chinese: “危地马拉 / 危地馬拉 / 瓜地馬拉”
  • Chinese: “危地马拉”
  • Chinese: “危地马拉共和国”
  • Chinese: “瓜地馬拉”
  • Chinese: “瓜地马拉”
  • Chuvash: “Гватемала”
  • Cornish: “Gwatemala”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Gvatemala”
  • Croatian: “Gvatemala”
  • Czech: “Guatemala”
  • Dagbani: “Guatemala”
  • Danish: “Guatemala”
  • Dhivehi: “ގުއަޓެމާލާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Guatemala”
  • Dotyali: “ग्वाटेमाला”
  • Dutch: “GT”
  • Dutch: “GTM”
  • Dutch: “Guatemala”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Guatemala”
  • Dzongkha: “གྷོ་ཊ་མ་ལ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Гватемала”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جواتيمالا”
  • Erzya: “Гватемала”
  • Esperanto: “GT”
  • Esperanto: “Gvatemalo”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Gvatemalo”
  • Estonian: “Guatemala Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Guatemala”
  • Ewe: “Guatemala nutome”
  • Ewe: “Guatemala”
  • Extremaduran: “Guatemala”
  • Faroese: “Guatemala”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Guatemala”
  • Finnish: “Guatemala”
  • Finnish: “Guatemalan tasavalta”
  • French: “GT”
  • French: “Guatemala”
  • French: “Guatémala”
  • French: “République du Guatémala”
  • Fulah: “Gwaatemalaa”
  • Gagauz: “Gvatemala”
  • Galician: “Guatemala”
  • Ganda: “Gwatemala”
  • Georgian: “გვატემალა”
  • German: “Guatemala”
  • German: “República de Guatemala”
  • German: “Republik Guatemala”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Guatemala”
  • Gilaki: “گواتمالا”
  • Gilaki: “گۊاتمالا”
  • Goan Konkani: “Guatemala”
  • Goan Konkani: “ग्वाटेमाला”
  • Greek: “Γουατεμάλα”
  • Guarani: “Guatemala”
  • Guarani: “Guatemála”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Gwatémala”
  • Gujarati: “ગ્વાટેમાલા”
  • Haitian: “Gwatemala”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Guatemala”
  • Hausa: “Guatemala (ƙasa)”
  • Hausa: “Guatemala”
  • Hausa: “Gwatamala”
  • Hawaiian: “Kuakemala”
  • Hebrew: “גואטמאלה”
  • Hebrew: “גואטמלה”
  • Hebrew: “גוואטמאלה”
  • Hebrew: “גוואטמלה”
  • Hebrew: “גווטמלה”
  • Hebrew: “גוטמלה”
  • Hebrew: “רפובליקת גואטמלה”
  • Hindi: “ग्वाटेमाला”
  • Hungarian: “Guatemala”
  • Hungarian: “Guatemalai Köztársaság”
  • Icelandic: “Gvatemala”
  • Ido: “Guatemala”
  • Igbo: “Guatemala”
  • Iloko: “Guatemala”
  • Inari Sami: “Guatemala täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Guatemala”
  • Indonesian: “Guatemala”
  • Interlingua: “Guatemala”
  • Interlingue: “Guatemala”
  • Irish: “Guatamala”
  • Italian: “Guatemala”
  • Italian: “Repubblica del Guatemala”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Guatimaala”
  • Japanese: “グアテマラ”
  • Japanese: “グアテマラ共和国”
  • Javanese: “Guatémala”
  • Kabiyè: “Kuwatemala”
  • Kabyle: “Gwatimala”
  • Kalaallisut: “Guatemala”
  • Kalmyk: “Гватемалмудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಗ್ವಾಟೆಮಾಲ”
  • Kannada: “ಗ್ವಾಟೆಮಾಲಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Gvatemala”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Гватемала Республика”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Гватемала”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Гуатемала”
  • Kashmiri: “گوتیدالا”
  • Kazakh: “Гватемала”
  • Khmer: “ក្វាតេម៉ាឡា”
  • Khmer: “ហ្គាតេម៉ាឡា”
  • Kikuyu: “Gwatemala”
  • Kinaray-A: “Guwatemala”
  • Kinaray-A: “Gwatimala”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Gwatemala”
  • Kirghiz: “Гватемала Республикасы”
  • Kirghiz: “Гватемала”
  • Komi: “Гватемала”
  • Korean: “과떼말라”
  • Korean: “과테말라”
  • Kotava: “Guatemala”
  • Kurdish: “Guatemala”
  • Kurdish: “Gûatemala”
  • Ladin: “Guatemala”
  • Ladino: “Guatemala”
  • Lao: “ກົວເທມາລາ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດກົວເຕມາລາ”
  • Latin: “Guatemala”
  • Latin: “Guatimala”
  • Latin: “Guatimalia”
  • Latvian: “Gvatemala”
  • Ligurian: “Guatemala”
  • Limburgan: “Guatemala”
  • Lingala: “Gwatemala”
  • Lingala: “Gwatémala”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Guatemala”
  • Literary Chinese: “瓜地馬拉”
  • Lithuanian: “Gvatemala”
  • Livvi: “Gvatemala”
  • Lojban: “guatemal”
  • Lombard: “Guatemala”
  • Low German: “Guatemala”
  • Low German: “Republyk Guatemala”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Guatemala”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Ngwatemala”
  • Luxembourgish: “Guatemala”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Guatemala”
  • Macedonian: “Гватемала”
  • Madurese: “Guatemala”
  • Malagasy: “Goatemala”
  • Malagasy: “Goatemalà”
  • Malay: “Guatemala”
  • Malayalam: “ഗ്വാട്ടിമാല”
  • Maltese: “Gwatemala”
  • Maltese: “il-Gwatemala”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika tal-Gwatemala”
  • Manipuri: “ꯒ꯭ꯋꯥꯇꯦꯃꯥꯂꯥ”
  • Manx: “y Ghuatemaley”
  • Manx: “Yn Ghuatemaley”
  • Maori: “Kuatamara”
  • Maori: “Kuatamāra”
  • Marathi: “ग्वाटेमाला”
  • Marathi: “ग्वातेमाला”
  • Mazanderani: “گوآتمالا”
  • Mazanderani: “گواتمالا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Guatemala”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Guatemala”
  • Minangkabau: “Guatemala”
  • Mingrelian: “გვატემალა”
  • Mirandese: “Guatemala”
  • Moksha: “Гватэмала”
  • Mongolian: “Гватемал”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ڭواطيمالا”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ݣواطيمالا”
  • Nauru: “Guatemala”
  • Nauru: “Guatemara”
  • Navajo: “Tsinłánítah Dineʼé Bikéyah”
  • Neapolitan: “Guatemala”
  • Nepali: “ग्वाटेमाला”
  • Newari: “ग्वाटेमाला”
  • North Ndebele: “Guatemala”
  • Northern Frisian: “Guatemaala”
  • Northern Luri: “گواتمالا”
  • Northern Sami: “Guatemala dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Guatemala”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Guatemala”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Guatemala”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Guatemala”
  • Norwegian: “Guatemala”
  • Novial: “Guatemala”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Guatemala”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Guatemala”
  • Oriya: “ଗୁଆଟେମାଳା”
  • Oriya: “ଗୁଏତମାଲା”
  • Oromo: “Gu’aatimaalaa”
  • Ossetian: “Гватемалæ”
  • Pali: “ग्वाटेमाला”
  • Pampanga: “Guatemala”
  • Pampanga: “Guatemála”
  • Panjabi: “ਗੁਆਟੇਮਾਲਾ”
  • Panjabi: “ਗੁਆਤੇਮਾਲਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Guatemala”
  • Persian: “گواتمالا”
  • Picard: “Guatemala”
  • Piemontese: “Guatemala”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Guatemala”
  • Polish: “Gwatemala”
  • Portuguese: “Guatemala”
  • Portuguese: “República da Guatemala”
  • Pushto: “ګواتمالا”
  • Pushto: “ګواتيمالا”
  • Pushto: “ګواتیمالا”
  • Quechua: “Guatemala”
  • Quechua: “Watimala”
  • Romanian: “Guatemala”
  • Romansh: “Guatemala”
  • Rundi: “Gwatemala”
  • Russia Buriat: “Гватемал”
  • Russia Buriat: “Гватемала”
  • Russian: “Гватемала”
  • Russian: “Республика Гватемала”
  • Rusyn: “Ґватемала”
  • Sakizaya: “Guatemala”
  • Samoan: “Tuatemala”
  • Samogitian: “Gvatemala”
  • Sango: “Guatêmälä”
  • Sanskrit: “ग्वाटेमाला”
  • Santali: “ᱜᱣᱟᱴᱮᱢᱟᱞᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Guatemala”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Guatemala”
  • Scots: “Guatemala”
  • Scots: “Republic o Guatemala”
  • Scots: “República de Guatemala”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Guatamala”
  • Serbian: “Gvatemala”
  • Serbian: “Гватемала”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gvatemala”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းၵႂႃႇတမႃႇလႃႇ”
  • Shona: “Guatemala”
  • Sicilian: “Guatemala”
  • Silesian: “Gwatymala”
  • Sindhi: “گوئٽي مالا”
  • Sindhi: “گواتيمالا”
  • Sinhala: “ගෝතමාලා”
  • Sinhala: “ගෝතමාලාව”
  • Sinhala: “ග්වාතමාලාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Guatemala tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Guatemala”
  • Slovak: “Guatemala”
  • Slovak: “Guatemalská republika”
  • Slovenian: “gt”
  • Slovenian: “GUA”
  • Slovenian: “Gvatemala”
  • Slovenian: “Republika Gvatemala”
  • Somali: “Guatemala”
  • Somali: “Guwaatamaala”
  • Somali: “Guwatimala”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قواتمالا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “گواتمالا”
  • Spanish: “Guatemala”
  • Spanish: “República de Guatemala”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴳⵡⴰⵜⵉⵎⴰⵍⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Guatémala”
  • Swahili: “Guatemala”
  • Swahili: “Gwatemala”
  • Swati: “IGwathamala”
  • Swedish: “Guatemala”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Guatemala”
  • Swiss German: “Guatemala”
  • Tachelhit: “Gwatimala”
  • Tagalog: “Guatemala”
  • Tajik: “Гватемала”
  • Tajik: “Гуатемала”
  • Talysh: “Gvatemala”
  • Talysh: “Qvatemala”
  • Tamil: “கவுதமாலா”
  • Tamil: “குவாத்தமாலா”
  • Taroko: “Guatemala”
  • Tatar: “Гватемала”
  • Telugu: “గ్వాటిమాలా”
  • Telugu: “గ్వాటెమాలా”
  • Tetum: “Guatemala”
  • Thai: “กัวเตมาลา”
  • Thai: “ประเทศกัวเตมาลา”
  • Thai: “สาธารณรัฐกัวเตมาลา”
  • Tibetan: “གྭ་ཏེ་མ་ལ”
  • Tibetan: “གྷོ་ཊེ་མ་ལ།”
  • Tibetan: “གུ་ཝེ་ཐི་མ་ལ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ጉዋቲማላ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Kuatamala”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Guatemala”
  • Tumbuka: “Guatemala”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “ڨواتيمالا”
  • Turkish: “Guatemala”
  • Turkmen: “Gwatemala”
  • Udmurt: “Гватемала”
  • Uighur: “گۋاتېمالا”
  • Uighur: “گىۋاتېمالا”
  • Ukrainian: “Гватемала”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґватемала”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Guatemala”
  • Urdu: “گواتیمالا”
  • Urdu: “گواٹے مالا”
  • Uzbek: “Gvatemala”
  • Venetian: “Guatemała”
  • Venetian: “Guatemaƚa”
  • Veps: “Gvatemal”
  • Vietnamese: “Goa-tê-ma-la”
  • Vietnamese: “Guatemala”
  • Vlax Romani: “Guatemala”
  • Volapük: “Gvatemalän”
  • Volapük: “Gvatemän”
  • Võro: “Guatemala”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Guatemala”
  • Welsh: “Guatemala”
  • Welsh: “Gwatemala”
  • Western Frisian: “Guatemala”
  • Western Frisian: “Gûatemala”
  • Western Mari: “Гватемала”
  • Western Panjabi: “گویٹے مالا”
  • Wolof: “Guwaatemala”
  • Wolof: “Guwatemala”
  • Wu Chinese: “危地馬拉”
  • Wu Chinese: “危地马拉”
  • Yakut: “Гватемала”
  • Yakut: “Гуатемала”
  • Yiddish: “גוואטעמאלע”
  • Yiddish: “גוואַטעמאַלע”
  • Yoruba: “Guatemala”
  • Yoruba: “Guatẹmálà”
  • Yue Chinese: “危地馬拉”
  • Zeeuws: “Guatemala”
  • Zhuang: “Guatemala”
  • Zulu: “Guatemala”
  • Zulu: “i-Guatemala”
  • “Guatemala”
  • “Gvatemala”
  • “Kwatemallan”
  • “Kwatemallan Axkayotl”
  • “Kwawtemallan”
  • “ma Katemala”
  • “ग्वाटेमाला”

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