1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Guatemala
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Guatemala City—994,938, America/Guatemala, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Guatemala City is GeoNames ID 3598132. Its recorded administrative path is Municipio de Guatemala → Guatemala, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Guatemala City occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2020-07-15; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Guatemala City ranks 557 by recorded population. Inside the 2 selected Guatemala entries it ranks 1; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 76. Its 994,938 population value is 1.23 times the 806,668 median for the country cohort and 1.22 times the 816,326 regional median. Guatemala City is rank 1 among the 2 selected Guatemala entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Guatemala City's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Guatemala City's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Villa Nueva at 15.018 km with 618,397 recorded people; San Salvador at 177.851 km with 525,990 recorded people; San Pedro Sula at 283.862 km with 801,259 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 268.844 km. Compared with Villa Nueva, Guatemala City's recorded population is 1.61 times as large. Against Guatemala City, Villa Nueva follows Municipio de Villa Nueva → Guatemala in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Guatemala cohort, uses the shared America/Guatemala identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Guatemala City's. Against Guatemala City, San Salvador follows San Salvador Department → El Salvador in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected El Salvador cohort rather than Guatemala, uses America/El_Salvador instead of America/Guatemala, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is below Guatemala City's. Against Guatemala City, San Pedro Sula follows San Pedro Sula → Cortes Department → Honduras in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Honduras cohort rather than Guatemala, uses America/Tegucigalpa instead of America/Guatemala, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Guatemala City's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 208 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Guatemala City's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 3598132, the coordinate pair 14.6407 / 90.5133, country rank 1 of 2, and neighbor GeoNames 3587902 at 15.018 km bind Guatemala City to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Guatemala City's reference point is 14.6407° north and 90.5133° west. The IANA identifier America/Guatemala is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Guatemala City's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Guatemala City's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Guatemala City's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Guatemala City, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Guatemala City's closest other entries in this atlas are Villa Nueva (15.018 km), San Salvador (177.851 km), San Pedro Sula (283.862 km).
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GeoNames updated the row 2020-07-15; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.