El Salvador has 545 km of borders, including 342 km of borders with Honduras and 203 km with Guatemala.

The city's metro area has recently grown very rapidly and has absorbed most of the neighboring municipalities of Villa Nueva, San Miguel Petapa, Mixco, San Juan Sacatepequez, San José Pinula, Santa Catarina Pinula, Fraijanes, San Pedro Ayampuc, Amatitlán, Villa Canales, Palencia and Chinautla forming what is now known as the Guatemala City Metropolitan Area.

In an attempt to control rapid growth of the city, the municipal government ( Municipalidad de Guatemala ) headed by longtime Mayor Álvaro Arzú, has implemented a plan to control its growth based on transects along its important arterial roads and exhibitting Transit-oriented development ( TOD ) characteristics.

Guatemala City also has a sizeable Indigenous population and minority groups such as Germans and other Europeans, Jewish, Asians primarily Chinese and Korean, and many groups of other Latin American origins such as Peruvian, and Colombian amongst others.

Guatemala City's population has experienced drastic growth since the 1970s with the influx of indigenous migrants from the outlying departments as well as a large influx of foreign groups.

For this reason along with several others, Guatemala City has experienced some growth problems such as transportation saturation, availability of safe potable water in some areas at certain times as well as increased crime.

The city also has some of the most expensive private schools in Central America, The American School of Guatemala and The Mayan International School.

Guatemala City has been affected several times by earthquakes.

By 2500 BC, small settlements were developing in Guatemala ’ s Pacific lowlands in such places as Tilapa, La Blanca, Ocós, El Mesak, and Ujuxte, where the oldest pieces of ceramic pottery from Guatemala has been found.

Northern Guatemala has particularly high densities of Late Pre-classic sites, including Naachtun, Xulnal, El Mirador, Porvenir, Pacaya, La Muralla, Nakbé, El Tintal, Wakná ( formerly Güiro ), Uaxactún, and Tikal.

This has brought on difficulties for Guatemala as more people puts pressure in the nation's economic progress in a country where 70 % live in dire poverty, and political stability was weakened by an inability to have effective population growth programs.

The 1996 signing of peace accords, which ended 36 years of civil war, removed a major obstacle to foreign investment, and Guatemala since then has pursued important reforms and macroeconomic stabilization.

On 1 July 2006, the Central American Free Trade Agreement ( CAFTA ) entered into force between the US and Guatemala and has since spurred increased investment in the export sector.

Guatemala has a longstanding claim to a large portion of Belize ; the territorial dispute caused problems with the United Kingdom and later with Belize following its 1981 independence from the UK.

* Mexico has an embassy in Guatemala City and a consulate in Quetzaltenango and in Tecún Umán.

* Guatemala has an embassy in Mexico City and consulates-general in Oaxaca City, Tenosique, Tijuana, Tuxtla Gutiérrez and Veracruz City.

Guatemala also has consulates in Ciudad Hidalgo, Comitán and Tapachula.

Guatemala has an embassy in Moscow.

Russia has an embassy in Guatemala City.

In recent years the number of violent crimes reported by U. S. citizens has steadily increased, though the number of Americans traveling to Guatemala has also increased.

For example, the K ' iche ' language spoken in Guatemala has the inflectional prefixes k-and x-to mark incompletive and completive aspect ; Mandarin Chinese has the aspect markers-le 了 ,-zhe 着, zài-在, and-guò 过 to mark the perfective, durative stative, durative progressive, and experiential aspects, and also marks aspect with adverbs ; and English marks the continuous aspect with the verb to be coupled with present participle and the perfect with the verb to have coupled with past participle.

He took residence in the prosperous suburb of Ciudad Vieja, home of Guatemala's artists and Intelligentsia of the day, on Cuarta Avenida ( fourth avenue ), 3 km south of Guatemala City.

Originally from Teotihuacan or very closely allied with that city, Siyaj K ' ak ' was a warlord in the Maya heartland of the Petén ( modern Guatemala ) during the fourth century.

On November 20, 2004, the two married at her father's home in Antigua Guatemala, his second marriage and her fourth.

The couple had two more children in Guatemala and a fourth child in the United States, whom they named after Lama Govinda.

Colom was born in Guatemala City, the son of Antonio Colom Argueta and Yolanda Caballeros Ferraté, being the fourth of five siblings.

* San Marcos, Guatemala — highest summit of Central America at 4220 m ( 13, 845 feet )

Between 1960 and 1990, newspaper accounts of political deaths in Guatemala correctly reported over 50 % of deaths in years of low violence but less than 5 % in years of highest violence.

In order to make full redress to the survivors of the massacre and to the next-of-kin of those who were killed, Guatemala was ordered to make compensatory payments to those individuals totalling USD $ 7, 996, 836 – the highest award ever given by the Court.

In 2006, Casa Alianza in Guatemala received the Order of the Quetzal award, which is the highest award that the Guatemalan government bestows upon those doing humanitarian work in Guatemala.

* San Marcos, Guatemala — highest summit of Central America at 4220 m ( 13, 845 feet )

The municipality lies on the Monte Cristo Massif with its highest point being the Monte Cristo volcano, known as Trifino de Monte Cristo () which Guatemala shares with El Salvador and Honduras.

Central America's highest volcanoes are found in Guatemala and include the Tajumulco and Tacaná, both above 4, 000 meters.

Although K ' iche ' is a national and not official language of Guatemala, and the literacy rate is low, it is increasingly taught in schools and used on radio.

San Cristobal is currently ( as of 2011 ) the only municipality in Guatemala reporting a 100 % literacy rate.

The crime rate is especially high, as in much of Guatemala.

* Bennett, Elaine 2009 Understanding childhood malnutrition in a Maya village in Guatemala: A syndemic perspective.

Guatemala City offers all the modern amenities along with important historic sites that a world class city can be expected to have ranging from an IMAX Theater to the Ícaro film festival ( Festival Ícaro ) featuring films produced in Guatemala and Central America.

* Mapa en Relieve ( giant map of Guatemala, unique in the world ) and surrounding parks

A test Soviet connection to Austria in 1982 existed, in 1982 and 1983 there were series of " world computer conferences " at VNIIPAS initiated by the U. N. where USSR was represented by a team of scientists from many Soviet Republics headed by biochemist Anatoly Klyosov ; the other participating countries were UK, USA, Canada, Sweden, FRG, GDR, Italy, Finland, Philippines, Guatemala, Japan, Thailand, Luxembourg, Denmark, Brazil and New Zealand.

Other significant deposits of precious opal around the world can be found in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Turkey, Indonesia, Brazil ( in Pedro II, Piauí ), Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Ethiopia.

Today, Guatemala is the biggest producer and exporter of Cardamom in the world, followed by India.

Guatemala is the largest producer of cardamom in the world with an average yield of between 25 thousand to 29 thousand metric tons annually.

Major overseas facilities used by the Oral, Personal and Home Care segment are located in Australia, Brazil, China, Colombia, France, Guatemala, Italy, Mexico, Poland, South Africa, Thailand, Venezuela and elsewhere throughout the world.

Although these are examples of his high profile work, his travel and investigations throughout the world, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Indonesia, El Salvador, Guatemala and more, provides essential service to those who need it most.

The Middle kingdoms of India had already the largest economy of the ancient and medieval world, the Napata / Meroitic kingdom extended over the current Sudan and Ethiopia, the Olmecs controlled central Mexico and Guatemala, and the pre-Incan Chavín people managed large areas of northern Peru.

Martin prepared his first English album in 1999, as the first and most prominent single was " Livin ' la Vida Loca ", which reached number one in many countries around the world, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, France, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Guatemala, Mexico, Russia, Turkey and South Africa.

Born in Benicia, California, he traveled as a child around the world with his father, Lansing Bond Mizner, a lawyer and the U. S. minister to Guatemala, who was recalled to the United States in 1891 by President Benjamin Harrison after the Barrundia Affair.

The lake was mostly unknown to the rest of the world and Guatemala was seeking ways to increase tourism and boost the local economy.

There are a total of 17 MTCs located in nations throughout the world in locations in addition to Provo, including Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Ghana, Guatemala, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Peru, the Philippines, and the United Kingdom.

Bruce Graham built extensively all over the world from his home in Chicago, to Guatemala, Hong Kong, London, Cairo, and many other cities.

The organization, which works exclusively in the developing world, currently has conservation projects in Cambodia, China, Colombia, Guatemala, India, Iraq, Laos, Libya, Peru, and Turkey.

ESF volunteers work tirelessly to help underprivileged people around the world in refugee camps throughout South East Asia, Haiti and Guatemala.

International students during the 2000s ( decade ) matriculated from many diverse countries around the world, including Germany, Great Britain, Bulgaria, Hungary, Macedonia, Spain, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Mexico, Canada, Guatemala, and Australia.

Following the path of Irish emigration across the world, Nagle's work became known in England, Newfoundland, Canada, the United States of America, Australia, New Zealand, as well as India, Pakistan, The Philippines, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Papua-New Guinea, Mexico, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Chile, and Ecuador.

24 rifle was widely used the world over, by Romania, Iran, Guatemala, China and others.

The congregation has about seventy-seven thousand lay partners and one million students around the world, with establishments of higher learning in Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, Ivory Coast, Spain, France, Guatemala, the Philippines, the United States, Venezuela and Israel.