Answer To The Question “What Is The Capital And Largest City In Guatemala?”
LARGEST CITY IN GUATEMALA – In this topic, we will now answer the question “what is the capital and largest city in Guatemala?”
Let us first know the country Guatemala itself.
Guatemala
Officialy named the Republic of Guatemala, it is a Central American country which is surrounded by Belize and the Caribbean to the northeast, Mexico to the north and west, Honduras to the east, El Salvador to the southeast, and to the south is the Pacific Ocean.
The nation is about 109K square meters wide or 42K square mile wide, ranking this country the 105th widest. It has a population of about 17.2 million people (2018), where 41.5% of them are Mestizo Guatemalans and 41% of them are indigenous or Amerindian Guatemalans.
Their government is a Unitary presidential republic, governed by president-elect Alejandro Giammattei.
Capital and Largest City
The capital and also the largest city of the nation is Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción (English: New Guatemala of the Assumption) or locally Guatemala City or Guate. It is also the most populous city in the nation.
Guatemala City is in the south-central portion of the country which is settled in a mountain valley named Valle de la Ermita (English: Hermitage Valley). The city is currently run by a Unionist mayor Ricardo Quiñónez Lemus.
It is a landlocked city which is about 2 km squared wide or 736 square mile wide on land and the capital proper is 692 kilometer squared wide or 267 square mile wide. It has a population of about 2.4 million people, as of 2018.
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