1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE

Guatemala

Guatemala City

Compare this sourced profile of Guatemala City, Guatemala before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.

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01What the data says — and does not say

What 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

This city's dataset fingerprint

Record signatureGuatemala CityGeoNames 3598132557 / 1,206America/Guatemala

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Source identity and administrative path

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.

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Population position inside fixed cohorts

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.

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Nearest-reference pattern

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.

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Coordinate, time-zone and class cohorts

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.

Full field record

Fixed GeoNames snapshot · not live travel data
Record keys
Guatemala CityGeoNames 3598132Q25180112
Name scope
Guatemala City1 atlas row share this source labelqualifier not required
Administrative chain
Municipio de GuatemalaGuatemala
Coordinate signature
14.6407° N90.5133° W
Population snapshot
994,938atlas rank 557 of 1,206
Country comparison
Guatemala rank 1 of 2median 806,668ratio 1.23×
Regional comparison
the Americas rank 76 of 198median 816,326ratio 1.22×
Time-zone cohort
America/Guatemala2 of 1,206 atlas rows
Place-class cohort
PPLC capital of a political entity129 of 1,206 rows
Elevation field
Guatemala Citymissing in GeoNames
Nearest reference
Villa Nueva15.018 kmpopulation 618,397atlas rank 902
Second reference
San Salvador177.851 kmpopulation 525,990atlas rank 1,075
Third reference
San Pedro Sula283.862 kmpopulation 801,259atlas rank 693
Neighbour geometry
Guatemala Citynearest-distance rank 208 of 1,206three-reference spread 268.844 km
Source dates
Guatemala City row updated 2020-07-15atlas dataset checked 2026-08-04