Guatemala

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  1. 1
    A country in northern Central America. Official name: Republic of Guatemala. Capital: Guatemala City.

    "Foreign nationals who arrive in Guatemala through deportation flights will be repatriated to their home countries, Arévalo said, adding that the US and Guatemala would continue to have talks on how the process would work and how the US would cooperate."

  2. 2
    A department of Guatemala.

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republic of guatemala

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"Guatemala was once qualified as a banana republic."

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Guatemala (originally the name of Iximche, the location of Guatemala's first capital), from Classical Nahuatl Cuauhtēmallān, from cuauhtēmalli (“woodpile”) + -tlān (“place”).

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