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Quetzaltenango

First-level unit, Guatemala: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Page GRX-GTM-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO GTM / GTStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
954,238
people (GHSL 2025)
2,143 km²
area
5.2%
of Guatemala
24
units inside

01মানচিত্র

Inside Quetzaltenango

The 24 ADM2 units of Quetzaltenango.

FIG 1 · 24 units inside Quetzaltenango
মানচিত্র লোড হচ্ছে

Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Choose a humanitarian figure from the list to colour and raise the units by it; each figure shows its source on the unit page. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

মানুষ · GHSL 2025

954,238

5.2% of Guatemala.

মানুষ · WorldPop 2025

972,251

+2% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

2,143 km²

445 people per km².

Code

GT-QZ

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

নিম্ন উপকূলীয় অঞ্চল

595

people on land at or below 10 m, 0.1% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Humanitarian data

Quetzaltenango in humanitarian data

Source observations from the Humanitarian Data Exchange, matched to this unit by name, each with its reference date, provider and licence. They are not index values.

Population · 2024-12-31

949,371

people. UNFPA · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

Poverty headcount · 2015-12-31

24.9%

of people in multidimensional poverty. Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative · Public Domain / No restrictions (CC0).

Rainfall · 2026-10-10

103%

of the long-term average, latest dekad. WFP – World Food Programme · Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY).

04Units

24 units inside Quetzaltenango

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Almolonga – 49,182 49,182 12.63 3,894 5% 0
Cabricán – 44,136 37,681 83.98 526 4.5% 0
Cajolá – 37,400 46,912 20.44 1,830 3.8% 0
Cantel – 37,504 28,597 49.66 755 3.8% 0
Coatepeque – 95,013 87,756 419.57 226 9.7% 595
Colomba – 50,048 60,653 206.49 242 5.1% 0
Concepción Chiquirichapa – 18,196 18,196 22.05 825 1.9% 0
El Palmar – 29,318 21,685 176.08 167 3% 0
Flores Costa Cuca – 37,124 26,236 72.85 510 3.8% 0
Génova – 52,762 55,172 169.16 312 5.4% 0
Huitán – 10,563 12,099 36.59 289 1.1% 0
La Esperanza – 64,478 49,171 12.02 5,364 6.6% 0
Olintepeque – 84,549 77,247 32.37 2,612 8.6% 0
Ostuncalco – 67,499 65,148 109.62 616 6.9% 0
Palestina de Los Altos – 18,188 22,802 36.14 503 1.9% 0
Quetzaltenango – 100,171 133,707 127.29 787 10.2% 0
Salcajá – 56,307 61,631 16.79 3,354 5.8% 0
San Carlos Sija – 28,095 36,321 227.46 124 2.9% 0
San Francisco La Unión – 29,905 23,856 16.95 1,764 3.1% 0
San Martín Sacatepéquez – 18,579 23,128 144.43 129 1.9% 0
San Mateo – 2,557 7,243 10.89 235 0.3% 0
San Miguel Sigüila – 16,576 19,861 17.36 955 1.7% 0
Sibilia – 16,813 16,250 41.15 409 1.7% 0
Zunil – 13,829 17,062 78.21 177 1.4% 0
05উন্মুক্ততা

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
None at this resolution
বন্দর
None at this resolution
বিমানবন্দর
None at this resolution
Major roads
None at this resolution
রেলপথ
None at this resolution
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
06ঝুঁকি

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Quetzaltenango publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Guatemala.
07Neighbours

Neighbouring units

08উৎস

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen GTM ADM1, source: OpenStreetMap, Wambacher © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2017. Offered under the same licence (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen GTM ADM2, source: Coordinadora Nacional Para La Reducción De Desastres, OCHA FISS, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2021
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
দেশ
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.