Belize
Belize, formerly British Honduras, is the only country in mainland Central America with English as its official language. World-class attractions include exploring the lush jungles with exotic plants and animals, deep sea fishing, swimming, snorkelling and diving in the Caribbean Sea with its attractive reefs and visiting the Mayan ruins.Tap on the map to travel |
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Belmopan
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Belmopan is the capital of Belize, nearer the geographic center of the country than Belize City.
Belize City
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Belize City is the largest city in Belize. It is on a small peninsula protruding into the Caribbean Sea.
Destinations
Belize District
Belize District is on the central coastline of Belize, and the location of the country's largest city, Belize City.Toledo
Toledo is the southernmost district in Belize, bordered by Guatemala to the West and South, and the Bay of Honduras and its offshore cayes to the East.Northern Belize
Photo: Fernando.tassone, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Northern Belize is a region consisting of Belize's administrative districts of Orange Walk and Corozoal.
Belize
- Type: Country with 328,000 residents
- Description: sovereign state in Central America
- Languages: English and Spanish
- Neighbors: Guatemala and Mexico
- Categories: Commonwealth realm, sovereign state and locality
- Location: Central America, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of centre
17.19° or 17° 11' 24" northLongitude of centre
-88.68° or 88° 40' 48" westPopulation
328,000Area
22,966 km² (8,867 miles²)Elevation
69 metres (226 feet)Capital
BelmopanCurrency
Dollar (BZD)Phone code
.bzInternet domain
501OpenStreetMap ID
node 332779764OpenStreetMap Feature
place=countryGeoNames ID
3582678Wikidata ID
Q242Belize Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Belize
- Abkhazian: Белиз
- Achinese: Belize
- Adyghe: Белиз
- Afar: Beliz
- Afrikaans: Belize
- Akan: Beliz
- Akan: Belize
- Albanian: Beliza
- Albanian: Belize
- Albanian: Belizë
- Amharic: Belize
- Amharic: በሊዝ
- Amharic: ቤሊዘ
- Amharic: ቤሊዝ
- Amis: Belize
- Angika: बेलीज
- Arabic: Belize
- Arabic: بليز
- Aragonese: Belize
- Armenian: Բելիզ
- Arpitan: Belize
- Assamese: বেলিজ
- Asturian: Belice
- Asturian: Belize
- Atayal: Belize
- Avaric: Belizea
- Aymara: Wilisi
- Azerbaijani: Beliz
- Balinese: Bélize
- Bambara: Belize
- Bambara: Belizi
- Bashkir: Белиз
- Basque: Belize
- Bavarian: Belize
- Belarusian: Беліз
- Belarusian: Бэліз
- Bengali: বেলিজ
- Bengali: বেলিয
- Bhojpuri: बेलीज
- Bishnupriya: বেলিজ
- Bislama: Belize
- Bosnian: Belise
- Bosnian: Beliz
- Bosnian: Belize
- Breton: Belize
- Bulgarian: Белиз
- Bulgarian: Република Белиз
- Burmese: ဘလိဇ်
- Burmese: ဘလိဇ်နိုင်ငံ
- Burmese: ဘေလီဇ်
- Catalan: Belize
- Cebuano: Belize
- Central Bikol: Belisa
- Central Kurdish: بەلیز
- Chavacano: Belice
- Chechen: Белиз
- Cherokee: ᏇᎵᏍ
- Cheyenne: Belize
- Chinese: Belize
- Chinese: 伯利兹 / 貝里斯
- Chinese: 伯利兹
- Chinese: 伯利茲
- Chinese: 貝里斯
- Chuvash: Белиз
- Cornish: Belisa
- Corsican: Belise
- Crimean Tatar: Beliz
- Croatian: Belize
- Czech: Belize
- Dagbani: Belize
- Danish: Belize
- Dhivehi: ބެލީޒު
- Dimli (individual language): Beliz
- Dotyali: बेलिज
- Dutch: BLZ
- Dutch: BZ
- Dutch: Belize
- Dzongkha: བེ་ལིཛ།
- Dzongkha: བྷེ་ལིཛ
- Eastern Mari: Белиз
- Egyptian Arabic: بيليز
- English: British Honduras
- English: bz
- Erzya: Белиз
- Esperanto: BZ
- Esperanto: Belizo
- Estonian: Belize
- Ewe: Belize
- Ewe: Belize nutome
- Extremaduran: Belici
- Faroese: Belis
- Fiji Hindi: Belize
- Finnish: Belize
- Finnish: Brittiläinen Honduras
- French: BZ
- French: Belize
- French: Bélize
- French: le Bélize
- Fulah: Beliise
- Gagauz: Beliz
- Galician: Belice - Belize
- Galician: Belice
- Galician: Belize
- Galician: بليز
- Ganda: Belize
- Georgian: ბელიზი
- German: Belize
- German: Britisch Honduras
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Belize
- Gilaki: بلیز
- Goan Konkani: Belize
- Goan Konkani: बेलिझ
- Greek: Μπελίζ
- Greek: Μπελίσε
- Guarani: Mbelise
- Guarani: Velíse
- Guianese Creole French: Béliz
- Gujarati: બેલિઝ
- Gujarati: બેલીઝ
- Haitian: Beliz
- Hakka Chinese: Belize
- Hausa: Beliz
- Hausa: Belize
- Hebrew: בליז
- Hindi: बेलिज
- Hindi: बेलीज़
- Hungarian: Beliz
- Hungarian: Belize
- Icelandic: Belís
- Ido: Belize
- Igbo: Belize
- Iloko: Belis
- Inari Sami: Belize
- Indonesian: Belize
- Interlingua: Belize
- Interlingue: Belize
- Irish: An Bheilís
- Irish: an Bheilís
- Italian: Belize
- Italian: Honduras Britannico
- Jamaican Creole English: Biliiz
- Japanese: ベリーズ
- Javanese: Belis
- Javanese: Belize
- Javanese: Bélisé
- Kabiyè: Peliizi
- Kabyle: Belize
- Kalaallisut: Belize
- Kalmyk: Белсин Орн
- Kannada: ಬೆಲಿಜ್
- Kannada: ಬೆಲೀಜ್
- Kara-Kalpak: Beliz
- Kashmiri: بیلِج
- Kashmiri: बेलीज
- Kazakh: Белиз
- Khmer: បេលី
- Khmer: បេលីហ្ស
- Kikuyu: Belize
- Kinyarwanda: Belize
- Kirghiz: Белиз
- Korean: 벨리즈
- Kotava: Belizea
- Kurdish: Belîze
- Kurdish: بەلیز
- Ladin: Belis
- Ladin: Belize
- Ladino: Belize
- Lao: Belis
- Lao: ປະເທດເບລິດ
- Lao: ເບລິຊ
- Lao: ເບລີຊ
- Latin: Beliza
- Latvian: Beliza
- Ligurian: Belize
- Limburgan: Belize
- Lingala: Belize
- Lingala: Belizɛ
- Lingua Franca Nova: Beliz
- Literary Chinese: 伯利茲
- Lithuanian: Belizas
- Livvi: Beliz
- Lojban: beliz
- Lombard: Belize
- Low German: Belize
- Lower Sorbian: Belize
- Luba-Katanga: Belize
- Lule Sami: Belijssa
- Luxembourgish: Belize
- Macedo-Romanian: Belize
- Macedonian: Белиз
- Macedonian: Белизе
- Macedonian: Британски Хондурас
- Madurese: Belize
- Maithili: बेलिज
- Malagasy: Belize
- Malagasy: Belizy
- Malay: Belize
- Malayalam: ബെലീസ്
- Maltese: Belize
- Maltese: Beliże
- Maltese: il-Belize
- Manipuri: ꯕꯦꯂꯤꯓꯦ
- Manx: Yn Veleesh
- Maori: Pērihi
- Marathi: बेलिझे
- Marathi: बेलीझ
- Mazanderani: بلیز
- Min Dong Chinese: Belize
- Min Nan Chinese: Belize
- Minangkabau: Belize
- Mingrelian: ბელიზი
- Mirandese: Belize
- Moksha: Бэлиз
- Mongolian: Белиз
- Mongolian: Белизе
- Mongolian: ꯕꯦꯂꯤꯓꯦ
- Moroccan Arabic: بيليز
- Nauru: Berij
- Neapolitan: Belize
- Nepali: बेलिज
- Newari: बेलिज
- North Ndebele: Bhelize
- Northern Frisian: Belize
- Northern Sami: Belize
- Norwegian: Belize
- Norwegian Bokmål: Belize
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Belize
- Novial: Beliz
- Occitan (post 1500): Belize
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Belīs
- Oriya: Belize
- Oriya: ବେଲିଜ
- Oriya: ବେଲିଜ୍
- Oromo: Beliiz
- Ossetian: Белиз
- Pali: बेलीज
- Pampanga: Belize
- Pampanga: Belísi
- Panjabi: ਬੇਲੀਜ਼
- Papiamento: Belize
- Persian: بلیز
- Picard: Belize
- Piemontese: Belis
- Piemontese: Belize
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Beles
- Polish: Belize
- Portuguese: Belize
- Pushto: بلیز
- Pushto: بېلیز
- Quechua: Belice
- Quechua: Bilisi
- Quechua: Wilis
- Romanian: Belize
- Romansh: Belize
- Rundi: Belize
- Russia Buriat: Белиз
- Russian: Белиз
- Rusyn: Беліз
- Sakizaya: Belize
- Samoan: Pelisi
- Samogitian: Belėzos
- Sango: Belîzi
- Sanskrit: बेलीज
- Santali: ᱵᱮᱞᱤᱡᱽ
- Santali: ᱵᱮᱹᱞᱤᱡᱽ
- Sardinian: Belize
- Saterfriesisch: Belize
- Scots: Belize
- Scottish Gaelic: A' Beilìs
- Scottish Gaelic: A’ Bheilìs
- Scottish Gaelic: Beilise
- Scottish Gaelic: Belìos
- Serbian: Belize
- Serbian: Белизе
- Serbian: Белисе
- Serbian: Британски Хондурас
- Serbo-Croatian: Belize
- Shan: မိူင်းပႄႇလိတ်ႈ
- Shona: Belize
- Sicilian: Belizi
- Silesian: Belize
- Sindhi: بيليز
- Sinhala: බෙලීස්
- Skolt Sami: Belize
- Slovak: Belize
- Slovenian: Belize
- Somali: Beliis
- Somali: Belise
- Somali: Belize
- South Azerbaijani: بلیز
- Spanish: Belice
- Sundanese: Bélis
- Swahili: Belize
- Swati: IBhelizi
- Swedish: Belize
- Swiss German: Belize
- Tagalog: Belis
- Tagalog: Belise
- Tagalog: Belize
- Tajik: Белиз
- Talysh: Beliz
- Tamil: பலீஸ்
- Tamil: பெலிஸ்
- Tamil: பெலீசு
- Taroko: Belize
- Tatar: Белиз
- Telugu: బెలిజ్
- Telugu: బెలీజ్
- Tetum: Belize
- Thai: ประเทศเบลีซ
- Thai: เบลีซ
- Tibetan: བེ་ལི་ཛི།
- Tibetan: བེ་ལིཛ།
- Tigrinya: ቤሊዘ
- Tigrinya: ቤሊዝ
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Pelise
- Tosk Albanian: Belize
- Tunisian Arabic: بليز
- Turkish: Belize
- Turkmen: Beliz
- Turkmen: Belize
- Udmurt: Белиз
- Uighur: بېلىز
- Ukrainian: Беліз
- Ukrainian: Британський Гондурас
- Upper Sorbian: Belize
- Urdu: بیلائز
- Urdu: بیلیز
- Uzbek: Beliz
- Venetian: Belize
- Venetian: Bełize
- Veps: Beliz
- Vietnamese: Belize
- Vietnamese: Bê-li-xê
- Vlax Romani: Belize
- Volapük: Belisän
- Võro: Belize
- Waray (Philippines): Belize
- Welsh: Belize
- Welsh: Belîs
- Western Armenian: Պելիզ
- Western Balochi: بلیز
- Western Frisian: Belize
- Western Mari: Белиз
- Western Panjabi: بیلیز
- Wolof: Beliis
- Wolof: Belis
- Wu Chinese: 伯利茲
- Yakut: Белиз
- Yiddish: בעליז
- Yiddish: בעליזע
- Yoruba: Bèlísẹ̀
- Yoruba: Bẹ̀lísè
- Yoruba: Orílẹ́ède Bèlísẹ̀
- Yue Chinese: 伯利茲
- Zeeuws: Belize
- Zhuang: Belize
- Zulu: Belize
- Zulu: i-Belize
- Historic: British Honduras
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- Hueycopan
- Huēyicopan
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