Guatemala
Central Highlands
Guatemala Department

Guatemala City

Guatemala City is the capital of , a country in . With a population of around 3 million people, Guatemala City is the largest and most modern city in Guatemala.
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  • Type: City with 2,450,000 residents
  • Description: capital and largest city of the Republic of Guatemala
  • Also known as: “City of Guatemala”, “Ciudad de Guatemala”, “Guate”, “Guatemala”, “Guatemala (Guatemala)”, “Guatemala la Nueva”, “New Guatemala”, “New Guatemala of Assumption”, and “Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Estadio Doroteo Guamuch Flores and Guatemala City Railway Museum.

Stadium
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The Doroteo Guamuch Flores Stadium is a multi-use national stadium in Guatemala City, the largest venue in . It was built in 1948, to host the Central American and Caribbean Games in 1950, and was renamed after long-distance runner Doroteo Guamuch Flores, winner of the 1952 Boston Marathon.

Museum
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The , officially Museo del Ferrocarril FEGUA, is located in the main railway station in Guatemala City, . The museum has a collection of steam and diesel locomotives, passenger carriages and other rolling stock and items connected with the railway.

Square
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is a square.

Guatemala City

Latitude
14.6416° or 14° 38′ 30″ north
Longitude
-90.5133° or 90° 30′ 48″ west
Population
2,450,000
Elevation
1,508 metres (4,948 feet)
IATA airport code
GUA
United Nations Location Code
GT GUA
Open location code
766FJFRP+JM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 472114145
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3598132
Wiki­data ID
Q1555
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Guatemala City” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Banda Guatemala”
  • Afrikaans: “Guatemala-stad”
  • Afrikaans: “Guatemalastad”
  • Albanian: “Guatemala”
  • Amharic: “ጓቴማላ ከተማ”
  • Arabic: “غواتيمالا (مدينة)”
  • Arabic: “غواتيمالا العاصمة”
  • Arabic: “غواتيمالا”
  • Arabic: “مدينة غواتيمالا”
  • Aragonese: “Ciudat de Guatemala”
  • Armenian: “Գվատեմալա Սիթի”
  • Armenian: “Գվատեմալա”
  • Asturian: “Ciudá de Guatemala”
  • Aymara: “Watimala marka”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qvatemala”
  • Balinese: “Kota Guatémala”
  • Bashkir: “Гватемала (ҡала)”
  • Bashkir: “Гватемала”
  • Basque: “Guatemala Hiria”
  • Basque: “Guatemalako Hiria”
  • Belarusian: “Гватэмала (горад)”
  • Belarusian: “Гватэмала”
  • Bengali: “গুয়াতেমালা নগরী”
  • Bengali: “গুয়াতেমালা শহর”
  • Bosnian: “Guatemala City”
  • Breton: “Ciudad de Guatemala”
  • Bulgarian: “Гватемала”
  • Catalan: “Ciutat de Guatemala”
  • Catalan: “Guatemala”
  • Catalan: “La Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción”
  • Cebuano: “Guatemala City”
  • Cebuano: “Municipio de Guatemala”
  • Central Kurdish: “شاری گواتیمالا”
  • Chechen: “Гватемала”
  • Chinese: “Guatemala Chhī”
  • Chinese: “危地馬拉市”
  • Chinese: “危地马拉城”
  • Chinese: “瓜地馬拉市”
  • Corsican: “Cità di u Guatemala”
  • Corsican: “Guatemala”
  • Croatian: “Guatemala”
  • Czech: “Ciudad de Guatemala”
  • Danish: “Guatamala City”
  • Danish: “Guatemala City”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Guatemala (sûke)”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Guatemala”
  • Dutch: “Guatemala-stad”
  • Dutch: “Guatemala-Stad”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مدينة جواتيمالا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مدينه جواتيمالا”
  • Esperanto: “Gvatemalurbo”
  • Estonian: “Guatemala”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Guatemala City”
  • Finnish: “Guatemala City”
  • Finnish: “Guatemala”
  • French: “Ciudad de Guatemala”
  • French: “Guate”
  • French: “Guatemala Ciudad”
  • French: “Guatemala”
  • French: “Ville de Guatemala”
  • Galician: “Cidade de Guatemala”
  • Georgian: “გვატემალა”
  • German: “Ciudad de Guatemala”
  • German: “Guatemala City”
  • German: “Guatemala-Stadt”
  • Greek: “πόλη της Γουατεμάλας”
  • Greek: “Πόλη της Γουατεμάλας”
  • Gujarati: “ગ્વાટેમાલા શહેર”
  • Gujarati: “ગ્વાટેમાલા સિટી”
  • Haitian: “Siwdad”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Guatemala Sṳ”
  • Hausa: “Guatemala (birni)”
  • Hausa: “Guatemala”
  • Hebrew: “גואטמלה סיטי”
  • Hebrew: “גוואטמלה סיטי”
  • Hindi: “गुआतेमाला नगर”
  • Hindi: “ग्वाटेमाला नगर”
  • Hindi: “ग्वाटेमाला शहर”
  • Hungarian: “Guatemalaváros”
  • Icelandic: “Gvatemalaborg”
  • Ido: “Guatemala-urbo”
  • Ido: “Guatemala-Urbo”
  • Inari Sami: “Ciudad de Guatemala”
  • Inari Sami: “Guatemala”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Guatemala”
  • Interlingua: “Citate de Guatemala”
  • Interlingua: “Ciudad de Guatemala”
  • Interlingua: “Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción”
  • Interlingue: “Guatemala Cité”
  • Irish: “Cathair Ghuatamala”
  • Italian: “Città del Guatemala”
  • Japanese: “グアテマラシティ”
  • Kannada: “ಗ್ವಾಟೆಮಾಲ ನಗರ”
  • Kazakh: “Гватемала (қала)”
  • Kazakh: “Гватемала қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Гватемала”
  • Kikuyu: “Guatemala City”
  • Kirghiz: “Гватемала”
  • Korean: “갸떼”
  • Korean: “과떼말라 시”
  • Korean: “과테말라 시”
  • Korean: “과테말라”
  • Korean: “과테말라시티”
  • Korean: “누에바과테말라데라아순시온”
  • Korean: “라 누에바 과테말라 데 라 아순시온”
  • Korean: “시우다드 데 과테말라”
  • Korean: “시우다드과테말라”
  • Kotava: “Ciudad de Guatemala”
  • Kurdish: “Guatemala”
  • Ladino: “Sivdad de Guatemala”
  • Latin: “Urbs Guatimalensis”
  • Latvian: “Gvatemala”
  • Ligurian: “Çitæ do Guatemala”
  • Lithuanian: “Gvatemala”
  • Livvi: “Gvatemala”
  • Lombard: “Cità del Guatemala”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ciudad de Guatemala”
  • Luxembourgish: “Guatemala-Stad”
  • Luxembourgish: “La Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Guatemala casaba”
  • Macedonian: “Гватемала”
  • Malay: “Bandar Guatemala”
  • Malay: “Bandar Raya Guatemala”
  • Malayalam: “ഗ്വാട്ടിമാല സിറ്റി”
  • Maltese: “Belt tal-Gwatemala”
  • Marathi: “ग्वातेमाला शहर”
  • Marathi: “ग्वातेमाला सिटी”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Guatemala Chê”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Guatemala Chhī”
  • Minangkabau: “Kota Guatemala”
  • Mingrelian: “გვატემალა”
  • Moksha: “Гватэмала”
  • Mongolian: “Гватемал Хот”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لمدينا د ݣواطيمالا”
  • Navajo: “Tsinłánítah Kin Haalʼá”
  • Northern Frisian: “Guatemala Steed”
  • Northern Frisian: “Guatemala-Steed”
  • Northern Sami: “Ciudad de Guatemala”
  • Northern Sami: “Guatemala”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Guatemala by”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Guatemala by”
  • Norwegian: “Guatemala by”
  • Novial: “Guatemala Urbe”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ciutat de Guatemala”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nòva Güatemala”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Guateceaster”
  • Ossetian: “Гватемалæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਗੁਆਤੇਮਾਲਾ ਸ਼ਹਿਰ”
  • Papiamento: “Siudad di Guatemala”
  • Persian: “شهر گواتمالا”
  • Persian: “گواتمالاسیتی”
  • Piemontese: “Sità ëd Guatemala”
  • Polish: “Gwatemala”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade da Guatemala”
  • Portuguese: “Ciudad de Guatemala”
  • Portuguese: “Guate”
  • Portuguese: “Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción”
  • Pushto: “ګواتیمالا سیټي”
  • Quechua: “Watimala llaqta”
  • Romanian: “Ciudad de Guatemala”
  • Russian: “Guatemala”
  • Russian: “Гватемала (город)”
  • Russian: “Гватемала”
  • Samogitian: “Gvatemala (miests)”
  • Sardinian: “Tzitade de Guatemala”
  • Scots: “Guatemala Ceety”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Baile Guatemala”
  • Serbian: “Гватемала”
  • Serbian: “Град Гватемала”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Guatemala”
  • Shona: “Guatemala City”
  • Silesian: “Gwatymala”
  • Sindhi: “گواتيمالا شهر”
  • Sinhala: “ගෝතමාලා නගරය”
  • Skolt Sami: “Ciudad de Guatemala”
  • Skolt Sami: “Guatemala”
  • Slovak: “Guatemala”
  • Slovenian: “Ciudad de Guatemala”
  • Slovenian: “Ciudad Guatemala”
  • Slovenian: “Guatemala City”
  • Slovenian: “Gvatemala”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Guatemala”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad Guatemala”
  • Spanish: “Guate”
  • Spanish: “Guatemala”
  • Spanish: “Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción”
  • Spanish: “Nueva Guatemala”
  • Spanish: “Santiago de Guatimala”
  • Swahili: “Guatemala City”
  • Swedish: “Ciudad de Guatemala”
  • Swedish: “Guatemala City”
  • Swedish: “Municipio de Guatemala”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Guatemala”
  • Tajik: “Гватемала”
  • Tajik: “Шаҳри Гуатемала”
  • Talysh: “Gvatemala”
  • Talysh: “Qvatemala poytaxt”
  • Tamil: “குவாத்தமாலா நகரம்”
  • Tamil: “க்வாத்மலா ஸிடி”
  • Tatar: “Гватемала (шәһәр)”
  • Tatar: “Гватемала”
  • Telugu: “గ్వాటమేలా నగరం”
  • Telugu: “గ్వాటమేలా సిటీ”
  • Thai: “กัวเตมาลาซิตี”
  • Tibetan: “གུ་ཝེ་ཐི་མ་ལ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།”
  • Turkish: “Guatemala”
  • Turkmen: “Gwatemala”
  • Udmurt: “Гватемала”
  • Uighur: “گۋاتېمالا شەھىرى”
  • Ukrainian: “Гватемала”
  • Urdu: “گوئٹے مالا شہر”
  • Urdu: “گواتیمالا شہر”
  • Uzbek: “Gvatemala shahri”
  • Uzbek: “Gvatemala”
  • Venetian: “Sità del Guatemala”
  • Veps: “Gvatemal”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Guatemala”
  • Volapük: “Ciudad de Guatemala”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Syudad han Guatemala”
  • Welsh: “Dinas Guatemala”
  • Welsh: “Dinas Gwatemala”
  • Western Frisian: “Gûatemala-Stêd”
  • Wu Chinese: “危地马拉城”
  • Yakut: “Гуатемала”
  • Yiddish: “גוואטעמאלע שטאט”
  • Yoruba: “Ìlú Guatẹmálà”
  • Yue Chinese: “危地馬拉市”
  • Zulu: “i-Guatemala City”
  • “Gvatemala”
  • “Kwatemallan”
  • “Kwatemallan Altepetl”
  • “Yankwik Kwatemallan”

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