Map of Guatemala

Guatemala is located in North America. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 15.5° N, 90.2° W. It shares land borders with 4 countries — Belize, El Salvador, Honduras and Mexico — and also has its own coastline. Within North America, a continent of 23 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, Guatemala is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Guatemala shares land frontiers with the following 4 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Guatemala covers about 108,889 km² (42,042 sq mi). That makes it the 105th-largest country in the world by area and the 7th-largest in North America, larger by area than 16 of the continent’s 23 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 18,079,810, the 72nd-largest in the world and the 4th-largest in North America, accounting for about 3.0% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Guatemala has an average population density of about 166 people per km². Among the 23 countries of North America it stands 4th by population and 7th by area.

The seat of government is Guatemala City, and the official currency is the Guatemalan quetzal (GTQ, Q), and the main official language is Spanish. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC-06:00.

Guatemala carries the ISO country codes GT and GTM, dials on the international calling code +502 and uses the .gt internet domain.

Guatemala shares its land borders with 4 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Mexico (capital Mexico City, about 130,575,786 people), Honduras (capital Tegucigalpa, about 9,892,632 people), El Salvador (capital San Salvador, about 6,029,976 people) and Belize (capital Belmopan, about 417,634 people).

By area, Guatemala is larger than 2 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 15.5° N, 90.2° W and opens at zoom level 6, framing Guatemala within North America. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Guatemala City. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Guatemala lies about 1,720 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Guatemala keeps a single standard time zone, UTC-06:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit -06:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Guatemalan quetzal (GTQ, Q).

The official language is Spanish, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +502 and websites commonly use the .gt internet domain.

In short, Guatemala is a coastal country in North America, sharing land borders with 4 countries. Its capital is Guatemala City. Guatemala has a population of about 18,079,810 and covers around 108,889 km² (42,042 sq mi), ranking it 72nd in the world by population and 105th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Guatemala.

The flag of Guatemala is composed of three equal vertical bands of light blue, white and light blue, with the national coat of arms centered in the white band.

The flag of Guatemala is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.