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Key facts
- Country
- Guatemala
- Capital
- Flores
- Largest settlement
- Sayaxché
- Type
- Departmental
- Department of guatemala
- 35,854 km (13,843 sq mi)
- Urban
- 110,399
- Ethnicities
- Ladino , Mopan , Lacandon , Itza , Q'eqchi'
- Religions
- Roman Catholicism , Evangelicalism
- Time zone
- UTC-6
- Iso 3166 code
- GT-PE
- Languages
- Spanish
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- department of Guatemala
- Country
- Guatemala
- Located in
- Guatemala
- Capital
- Flores
- Population
- 622409
- Area
- 35854
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Shares border with
- Toledo District
- Official website
- www.guatemala.gob.gt/peten.php
- Image
- Tikal 3.jpg
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- Commons category
- Petén Department
- topic's main category
- Category:Petén Department
- inception
- 1866-05-08
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Petén Department
- native label
- Petén
- language used
- Mopan Maya
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Petén (from the Itz'a, Noj Petén, 'Great Island') is a department of Guatemala. It is geographically the northernmost department of Guatemala, as well as the largest by area – at 35,854 km (13,843 sq mi) it accounts for about one third of Guatemala's area. The capital is Flores. The population at the mid-2018 official estimate was 595,548.
Toponymy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Petén Department” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.