Contains 37 volcanoes, several of them active, and the Maya city of Tikal.
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Guatemala
Republic of Guatemala
North America
ยท Central America
0Population
108.89Kkmยฒ of land
$4.62KGDP / person
Guatemala CityCapital
- ISO codes
- GT ยท GTM
- Density
- 153 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Spanish
- Currency
- Guatemalan quetzal (GTQ)
- Dial code
- +502
- Internet domain
- .gt
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 14.9820ยฐ N, 90.4970ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Guatemalan
- UN region
- Americas ยท Central America
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Lower middle income
- Total GDP
- $76.71B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 4
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By the numbers
How Guatemala stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
69th
of 242 ยท 0.22% of world population
Land area
108th
of 242 ยท 0.07% of world land
GDP per person
150th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
74th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Guatemala
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 16,604,026 people, the 69th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.22 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 108,889 kmยฒ, making it the 108th largest country here - about 11.8 times the size of Cyprus.
Population density is about 153 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Guatemala City, at 14.62ยฐ N, 90.53ยฐ W, with a metropolitan population of about 1,024,000.
Shares land borders with 4 countries: Belize, El Salvador, Honduras and Mexico.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, America/Guatemala.
The currency is the Guatemalan quetzal (GTQ, symbol Q).
The official language is Spanish.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
America/Guatemala
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UTCโ06:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
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Guatemala City
Guatemala
14.6231ยฐ N, 90.5289ยฐ W
1.02M
2
Quetzaltenango
Quezaltenango
14.8300ยฐ N, 91.5200ยฐ W
575.26K
Land neighbours
4 countries share a border with Guatemala.