Guatemala

Official Name: República de Guatemala
Capitals: Ciudad de Guatemala
Population: 15,712,000 (2021 est.)
Size: 105th largest country in the world (108,889 km2)
• Guatemala comes from a Nahuatl word meaning “place of many trees”
• Home to Lake Atitlan, the deepest lake in Central America at 340m
• Guatemalans invented the first ever chocolate bar
• Home of two Nobel Prize winners
• Home of instant coffee, McDonald’s Happy Meal, CAPTCHA, reCAPTCHA and Duolingo
• There are more than 30 volcanoes in Guatemala
• The flag’s blue represents the sea on either side of the country, the white represents peace and purity, the Coat of Arms includes the quetzal, Guatemala’s national bird that symbolises liberty.