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Gwatemala

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
3,476,425
people (GHSL 2025)
2,215 km²
area
18.8%
of Guatemala
18
units inside

01Ramani

Inside Guatemala

The 18 ADM2 units of Guatemala.

FIG 1 · 18 units inside Guatemala
Inapakia ramani

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.

Watu · GHSL 2025

3,476,425

18.8% of Guatemala.

Watu · WorldPop 2025

3,544,618

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

Area

2,215 km²

1,569 people per km².

Code

GT-GU

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

03Humanitarian data

Guatemala 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

3,679,326

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

Rainfall · 2026-10-10

150%

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

04Units

18 units inside Guatemala

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
Amatitlán – 135,378 161,363 101.14 1,339 3.5% 0
Chinautla – 170,034 162,445 67.43 2,522 4.4% 0
Chuarrancho – 16,451 21,261 118.39 139 0.4% 0
Fraijanes – 92,920 266,629 115.73 803 2.4% 0
Gwatemala – 866,980 784,221 215.5 4,023 22.2% 0
Lago De Amatitlan – 43,017 70,704 15.03 2,862 1.1% 0
Mixco – 534,485 384,231 90.62 5,898 13.7% 0
Palencia – 79,667 105,631 218.37 365 2% 0
Petapa – 312,419 138,597 23.83 13,110 8% 0
San José del Golfo – 6,828 10,931 76.75 89 0.2% 0
San José Pinula – 67,979 173,736 198.42 343 1.7% 0
San Juan Sacatepéquez – 183,814 239,969 273.49 672 4.7% 0
San Pedro Ayampuc – 94,957 52,489 106.7 890 2.4% 0
San Pedro Sacatepéquez – 53,870 84,627 28.76 1,873 1.4% 0
San Raimundo – 80,071 105,676 125.26 639 2.1% 0
Santa Catarina Pinula – 100,097 225,687 67.6 1,481 2.6% 0
Villa Canales – 246,129 320,950 281.07 876 6.3% 0
Villa Nueva – 816,118 517,245 89.32 9,137 20.9% 0
05Mfiduo

Open exposure layers

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

Urban areas
273.1 H3 cells
Bandari
None at this resolution
Viwanja vya ndege
1 H3 cells
Major roads
541.1 H3 cells
Reli
188.5 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
97.3 H3 cells
06Hatari

Risk values

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

Neighbouring units

08Vyanzo

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.
Nchi
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.