Explore Guatemala in North America

Description and Basic Information

Guatemala with its capital Guatemala City is located in North America (Central America, bordering the North Pacific Ocean). It covers some 108,891 square kilometres (slightly smaller than Tennessee) with 13,002,000 citizens. Spanish is the language spoken by the majority in Guatemala. Mexico, Honduras, Belize and El Salvador are bordering countries.

Pictures from Guatemala City (Capital)

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About Guatemala

The terrain offers mostly mountains with narrow coastal plains and rolling limestone plateau. The average density of population is about 119 per km². The climate in can be described as tropical with hot, humid in lowlands, cooler in highlands. Possible natural disasters include numerous volcanoes in mountains, with occasional violent earthquakes or Caribbean coast extremely susceptible to hurricanes and other tropical storms.

To reach someone in Guatemala dial +502 prior to a number. There are 1,413,000 installed telephones. And there are 17,308,000 registered mobile phones. The cellular networks operate on frequencies of 850, 1900 Mhz. Websites typically end with the top level domain ".gt". If you want to bring electric appliances (e.g. battery charger), keep in mind the local 120V - 60Hz.

The country consists of 22 regions/states which are listed below.

Regions/States of Guatemala

Tourism Information

Official Tourism Office

Website: Guatemala Tourism

7a. Avenida 1-17, zona 4
Apartado Postal 1020-A
Guatemala

Phone: +50 2 331-4416

Unesco World Heritage Properties

Antigua Guatemala

Antigua, the capital of the Captaincy-General of Guatemala, was founded in the early 16th century. Built 1,500 m above sea-level, in an earthquake-prone region, it was largely destroyed by an...

Archaeological Park and Ruins of Quirigua

Inhabited since the 2nd century A.D., Quirigua had become during the reign of Cauac Sky (723–84) the capital of an autonomous and prosperous state. The ruins of Quirigua contain some...

Tikal National Park

In the heart of the jungle, surrounded by lush vegetation, lies one of the major sites of Mayan civilization, inhabited from the 6th century B.C. to the 10th century A.D. The ceremonial centre...

Demographic Information

Age Distribution in Guatemala

Each pair of bars represents a single age group (male/female). Each group is spanning 5 years. E.g. 0 to 5 years, 5 to 10 etc. and group "0 to 5" being at the left end and "100 +" at the right end of the chart.

Natural Population Growth

Population, Migration and Growth: The population in Guatemala is growing at an rate of 2.02% (or by 273,583 citizens). Each year 29,404 people leave this country (or 2.20 per thousand citizens) - making it an emmigration country. This leads to an absolute natural increase rate of the population of 2.24%. Or an total increase of 302,988 citizens.

Based on content from wikitravel.org. The original article can be found here based on the work of these users.
Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.