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The National Library of Guatemala ( Biblioteca Nacional) is the national library of Guatemala. It is located in Zone 1 of Guatemala City near the National Palace of Guatemala . The library has 7 reading rooms among them are: School reading room with 225,000 books. General reading room with 110,000 books together with collections of old books ...
National Newspaper and Periodicals Library of Mexico (Hemeroteca Nacional de México [es]) [153] Federated States of Micronesia. (List of libraries in the Federated States of Micronesia) Palikir. [154] Moldova. National Library of Moldova (Biblioteca Naţională a Republicii Moldova) Chişinău.
The Republic of Guatemala is divided into 22 departments (Spanish: departamentos) [ 1 ] which in turn are divided into 340 municipalities. [ 2 ][ 3 ] The departments are governed by a departmental governor, appointed by the President. In addition, Guatemala has claimed that all or part of the nation of Belize is a department of Guatemala, and ...
Private institutions. Universidad Rafael Landívar, founded in 1961. Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, founded in 1966. Universidad Mariano Gálvez de Guatemala, founded in 1966. Universidad Francisco Marroquín, founded in 1971. Universidad Rural de Guatemala, founded in 1995. Universidad del Istmo, founded in 1997.
Website. www.usac.edu.gt. The Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala (USAC, University of San Carlos of Guatemala) is the largest and oldest university of Guatemala; it is also the fourth founded in the Americas. Established in the Kingdom of Guatemala during the Spanish colony, it was the only university in Guatemala until 1954, [ a ] although ...
Foreign. English. Spanish is the official language of Guatemala. Guatemalan Spanish is the local variant of the Spanish language. Twenty-two Mayan languages are spoken, especially in rural areas, as well as two non-Mayan Amerindian languages: Xinca, an indigenous language, and Garifuna, an Arawakan language spoken on the Caribbean coast.
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. It is hydrologically bordered to the south by the Pacific Ocean and to the northeast by the Gulf of Honduras.
t. e. The culture of Guatemala reflects strong Mayan and Spanish influences and continues to be defined as a contrast between poor Mayan villagers in the rural highlands, and the urbanized and relatively wealthy mestizos population (known in Guatemala as ladinos) who occupy the cities and surrounding agricultural plains.