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Guatemala (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 15 30 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 15.5000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 090 15 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -90.2500 decimal degrees |
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Note: Area was inhabited by agriculturists by 2500 BCE; home to great Mayan civilization that flourished until 10th century; conquistador Alvarado subjugated native peoples 1523-1524; 16th century captaincy of same name included larger area than present nation; official language is Spanish, though much of population speaks native Amerindian dialects. |
Names: |
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| Guatemala (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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| Guatemala (Tagalog)
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| Guatemala (Nauruan)
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| Guatemala (Vietnamese)
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| Guatemala (Ilocano)
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| Guatemala (Indonesian)
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| Guatemala (Latin)
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| Guatemala (Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Guatemala (Danish)
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| Guatemala (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Guatemala (Finnish)
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| Guatemala (Swedish)
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| Guatemala (Portuguese)
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| Guatemala (Romanian)
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| Guatemala (Slovak)
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| Guatemala (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Guatemala (Catalan)
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| Guatemala (Basque)
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| Guatemala (Aragonese)
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| Guatemala (Welsh)
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| Guatemala (German)
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| Guatemala (Low German)
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| Guatemala (Albanian)
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| Guatemala (Breton)
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| Guatemala (Czech)
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| Guatemala (Dutch)
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| Guatemala (Afrikaans)
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| Guatemala (French-P,U,N)
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| Guatemala (Galician)
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| Guatemala (Faroese)
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| Guatemala (Italian)
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| Guatemala (Ligurian)
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| Guatemala (Sicilian)
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| Guatemala (Piemontese)
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| Guatemala (Estonian)
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| Guatemala (Greenlandic)
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| Guatemala (Turkish)
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| Guatemala (Occitan)
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| Guatemala (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Guatemala (Romansh)
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| Guatemala (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Guatemala (North Ndebele)
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| Guatemala (Norwegian)
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| Guatemala (Pampanga)
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| Guatemala (Northern Sami)
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| Guatemala (Shona)
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| Guatemala (Swahili (generic))
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| Guatemala (Ido)
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| Guatemala (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| República de Guatemala (C,V,O,Spanish,U,N)
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| Republic of Guatemala (C,O,English,U,N)
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| République de Guatemala (C,O,French,U,N)
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| Гватемала (C,O,Serbian)
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| Гватемала (Macedonian)
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| Гватемала (Bulgarian)
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| Гватемала (Russian-P,U)
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| Гватемала (Ukrainian)
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| Республика Гватемала (C,O,Russian,U)
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| 危地马拉 (C,O,Chinese-P,U)
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| 危地马拉共和国 (C,O,Chinese,U)
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| غواثيمالا (C,O,Arabic-P,U)
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| جُهور ةً غواثيمالا (C,O,Arabic,U)
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| GTM (C,O,ISO3L)
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| GT (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO320 (C,O)
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| Guatemalan (C,O,English,U,A)
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| גואטמלה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Cuauhtemallan (C,U,Nahuatl)
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| Cuauhtemallān (C,U,Nahuatl)
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| Goatemala (C,U,Arpitan)
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| Goa-tê-ma-la (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Goatemalà (C,U,Malagasy)
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| Guatamala (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| Gûatemala (C,U,Kurdish)
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| Guatêmälä (C,U,Sangho)
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| Guatemala nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Guatemalë (C,U,Albanian)
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| Guwaatamaala (C,U,Somali)
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| Guwatemala (C,U,Akan)
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| Gvatemala (C,U,Croatian)
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| Gvatemala (Bosnian)
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| Gvatemala (Latvian)
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| Gvatemala (Slovene)
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| Gvatemala (Icelandic)
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| Gvatemala (Lithuanian)
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| Gvatemalän (C,U,Volapük)
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| Gvatemalo (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Gwaatemalaa (C,U,Fulah)
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| Gwatamala (C,U,Hausa)
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| Gwatemala (C,U,Rundi)
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| Gwatemala (Maltese)
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| Gwatemala (Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Gwatemala (Bambara)
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| Gwatemala (Polish)
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| Gwatemala (Cornish)
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| Gwatemala (Haitian (Haitian Creole))
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| Gwatemala (Kikuyu)
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| Gwatemala (Swahili (generic))
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| Gwatémala (C,U,Lingala)
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| i-Guatemala (C,U,Zulu)
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| Kuatamala (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Ngwatemala (C,U,Luba-Katanga)
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| Orílẹ́ède Guatemala (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Qvatemala (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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| Watimala (C,U,Quechuan)
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| Гуатемала (C,U,Tajik)
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| グアテマラ (C,U,Japanese)
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| גוואטמלה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Γουατεμάλα (C,U,Greek)
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| گواتمالا (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| গোয়াটিমালা (C,U,Bengali)
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| གྭ་ཏེ་མ་ལ (C,U,Tibetan)
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| גוואטמאלה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| غواتيمالا (C,U,Arabic)
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| ประเทศกัวเตมาลา (C,U,Thai)
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| गोतेदाला (C,U,Hindi)
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| குவாத்தாமாலா (C,U,Tamil)
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| Գվատեմալա (C,U,Armenian)
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| Ґватемала (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| ហ្គាតេម៉ាឡា (C,U,Khmer)
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| 과테말라 (C,U,Korean)
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| گۋاتېمالا (C,U,Uyghur)
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| ګواتمالا (C,U,Pashto)
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| ګواتیمالا (C,U,Pashto)
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| ጉዋቲማላ (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ጉዋቲማላ (Amharic)
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| გვატემალა (C,U,Georgian)
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| สาธารณรัฐกัวเตมาลา (C,U,Thai)
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| กัวเตมาลา (C,U,Thai)
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| ກົວເຕມາລາ (C,U,Lao)
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| ଗୁଏତମାଲା (C,U,Odia)
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| Гватэмала (C,U,Belarusian)
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| ഗ്വാട്ടിമാലാ (C,U,Malayalam)
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| ဂွာတီမာလာ (C,U,Burmese)
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| جواتيمالا (C,U,Arabic)
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| གྷོ་ཊེ་མ་ལ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| ग्वाटेमाला (C,U,Marathi)
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| ग्वाटेमाला (Nepali)
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| گواتیمالا (C,U,Kurdish)
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| ಗ್ವಾಟೆಮಾಲಾ (C,U,Kannada)
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| গোয়াতিমালা (C,U,Bengali)
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| ગ્વાટેમાલા (C,U,Gujarati)
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| گواٹے مالا (C,U,Urdu)
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| గ్వాటిమాల (C,U,Telugu)
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| גווטמלה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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gained independence from Spain on September 15, 1821, from Mexico in 1823 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| republic (C) |
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| colony (H) |
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| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Guatemala City .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, North and Central America, Guatemala, Guatemala) [7005498] |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
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joined organization in 1945 |
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Sources and Contributors: |
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| Subject: ..... |
[BHA, FDA, GRLPSC, IMJ, VP] |
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Britannica Book of the Year (1992) 610 |
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Britannica Book of the Year (1993) 618 |
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Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988) |
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Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 247-248 |
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Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 357-358; 1:357-358 |
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Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961) |
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Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) V, 536-537 |
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GeoNames online [n.d.] 3595528 |
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ISO Country Codes (1996) 15 |
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ISO Handbook (1988) 779 |
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Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.) |
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National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-) |
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NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998) |
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NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1998-2000) accessed 01/20/99 |
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Petit Robert II, Noms (1989) |
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Times Concise Atlas of the World (1995) I-37 |
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UN Terminology Bulletin 345 (1993) 54 |
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UN Terminology Bulletin 347 (1997) 16 |
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Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) |
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Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 472 |
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Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala |
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