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
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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.
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