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Guatapanal. / 19.52000°N 70.92000°W / 19.52000; -70.92000. Guatapanal is a town in the Valverde Province Provinces of the Dominican Republic of the Dominican Republic .
Guatemala. / 14.633°N 90.500°W / 14.633; -90.500. Guatemala, [a] officially the Republic of Guatemala, [b] is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize, to the east by Honduras, and to the southeast by El Salvador.
The history of Guatemala begins with the Maya civilization (2600 BC – 1697 AD), which was among those that flourished in their country. The country's modern history began with the Spanish conquest of Guatemala in 1524. Most of the great Classic-era (250–900 AD) Maya cities of the Petén Basin region, in the northern lowlands, had been ...
Abies guatemalensis. Rehder. Abies guatemalensis, the Guatemalan fir or pinabete, is an evergreen tree native to Central America and is the southernmost member of the genus Abies being spread to the south lower than 14° N. [3] Its range is from southern (less from western and central) Mexico in the north to Honduras and El Salvador in the south.
The Guatemalan genocide, also referred to as the Maya genocide, [3] or the Silent Holocaust [4] (Spanish: Genocidio guatemalteco, Genocidio maya, or Holocausto silencioso), was the mass killing of the Maya Indigenous people during the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996) by successive US-backed Guatemalan military governments that first took power following the CIA instigated 1954 Guatemalan ...
Guatemala has a population of 17,153,288 (July 2020 est). [5] In 1900, Guatemala had a population of 885,000. [6] Guatemala had the fastest population growth in the Western Hemisphere during 20th century.
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Ghana. / 5.55500°N 0.19250°W / 5.55500; -0.19250. Ghana, [ a] officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It lies adjacent to the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing a border with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and Togo in the east.