Country Profile
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Name: The name “Guatemala” comes from the Nahuatl word Cuauhtēmallān (nahwiki), or “place of many trees”, a derivative of the K’iche’ Mayan word for “many trees”.
Date of Membership in CCLEC: 1992 – Panama
Motto: “Libre Crezca Fecundo”
Status: Independent –Declared 15 September 1821; Declared from the First Mexican Empire (1 July 1823)
Area: 108,889 km2(42,042 m2)
GDP: $124.941 billion (2015 estimate)
Population: 16,176,133 (2014 estimate)
Capital City: Guatemala City
Official Language: Spanish
Currency: Quetzal (GTQ)

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