Departments of Guatemala

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Guatemala is divided into 22 departments (departamentos)^[1] which are in turn divided into 334^[2] municipalities.

In addition, Guatemala has in the past claimed that all or part of the nation of Belize is a department of Guatemala (as a part of the Province of Verapaz), and this claim is sometimes reflected in maps of the region. Guatemala formally recognized Belize in 1991, but as of this time the remaining border disputes between the two nations had not been resolved.^[3]^[4]

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References 3
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Departments

**Departments of Guatemala**
Coat of Arms	Department	Map #	ISO 3166-2:GT^[5]	Capital	Area (km²)	Population (estimate 2011)^[6]	Municipalities
	Alta Verapaz	1	GT-AV	Cobán	8,686	1,112,781	17
	Baja Verapaz	2	GT-BV	Salamá	3,124	270,521	8
	Chimaltenango	3	GT-CM	Chimaltenango	1,979	612,973	16
	Chiquimula	4	GT-CQ	Chiquimula	2,376	370,891	11
NA	El Progreso	6	GT-PR	Guastatoya	1,922	158,092	8
	Escuintla	8	GT-ES	Escuintla	4,384	701,016	13
	Guatemala	9	GT-GU	Guatemala City	2,126	3,156,284	17
	Huehuetenango	10	GT-HU	Huehuetenango	7,403	1,143,887	31
	Izabal	11	GT-IZ	Puerto Barrios	9,038	413,399	5
	Jalapa	12	GT-JA	Jalapa	2,063	318,420	7
	Jutiapa	13	GT-JU	Jutiapa	3,219	436,076	17
	Petén	5	GT-PE	Flores	35,854	638,296	12
	Quetzaltenango	14	GT-QZ	Quetzaltenango	1,951	789,358	24
	Quiché	7	GT-QC	Santa Cruz del Quiché	8,378	953,027	21
NA	Retalhuleu	15	GT-RE	Retalhuleu	1,856	304,168	9
	Sacatepéquez	16	GT-SA	Antigua Guatemala	465	316,638	16
	San Marcos	17	GT-SM	San Marcos	2,397	1,019,719	29
	Santa Rosa	18	GT-SR	Cuilapa	2,295	346,590	14
	Sololá	19	GT-SO	Sololá	1,061	437,145	20
	Suchitepéquez	20	GT-SU	Mazatenango	2,510	516,467	20
	Totonicapán	21	GT-TO	Totonicapán	1,061	476,369	8
	Zacapa	22	GT-ZA	Zacapa	2,690	221,646	10

References

^ "Republica de Guatemala Departamentos de Guatemala". Servicio de Información Municipal de Inforpress. Archived from the original on 2009-04-16.
^ "DEPARTMENTS OF GUATEMALA". Guatemala on the Web. http://www.guatemalaontheweb.com/information/general-information/departments-of-guatemala/ Retrieved July 18, 2014.
^ Jorge I. Domínguez, David Mares, Manuel Orozco, David Scott Palmer, Francisco Rojas Aravena, and Andrés Serbin (August 2003). "Boundary Disputes in Latin America (summary)". Peaceworks No. 50. United States Institute of Peace. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
^ Jorge I. Domínguez, David Mares, Manuel Orozco, David Scott Palmer, Francisco Rojas Aravena, and Andrés Serbin (August 2003). "Boundary Disputes in Latin America (full text)" (pdf). Peaceworks No. 50. United States Institute of Peace. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
^ ISO 3166-2 codes for the departments of Guatemala)
^ "Guatemala: Estimaciones de la Población total por departamento. Período 2003-2011". Instituto Nacional de Estadística Guatemala. 2011-09-27. Retrieved 2013-06-25.

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Departments of Guatemala

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