Guinea Grass
Guinea Grass is a village in the Orange Walk District of the nation of Belize. It is 38 metres above sea level. According to the 2000 census, Guinea Grass had a population of 2,510 people, and by 2010 the figures showed a population of 3,500.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Richmond Hill and Shipyard.
Richmond Hill
Hamlet
Richmond Hill was a Mennonite settlement of Old Colony Mennonites in Orange Walk District in Belize, near Orange Walk Town. It was founded in 1960 by Mennonites from the Peace River area in Alberta, Canada, two years after the Belizean Mennonite settlements Blue Creek, Shipyard and Spanish Lookout were founded. Richmond Hill is situated 3½ miles northeast of Guinea Grass.
Shipyard
Town
Photo: Sipyardbelize, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Shipyard, also called Shipyard Colony, is a Mennonite settlement that is also an administrative village in the Orange Walk District of Belize. Shipyard was founded in 1958 by Old Colony Mennonites from Chihuahua and Durango states in Mexico. Shipyard is situated 5 miles southwest of Guinea Grass.
Guinea Grass
- Type: Village with 3,820 residents
- Description: Belizean human settlement
- Category: locality
- Location: Orange Walk District, Belize, Central America, North America
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Latitude
17.96839° or 17° 58′ 6″ northLongitude
-88.59695° or 88° 35′ 49″ westPopulation
3,820Elevation
33 feet (10 metres)Open location code
769HXC93+96OpenStreetMap ID
node 1639757697OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3581984Wikidata ID
Q994426
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Ukrainian—“Guinea Grass” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “吉内亚格拉斯”
- Dutch: “Guinea Grass”
- French: “Guinea Grass”
- German: “Guinea Grass”
- Japanese: “ギニア・グラス”
- Low German: “Guinea Grass”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Guinea Grass”
- Norwegian: “Guinea Grass”
- Polish: “Guinea Grass”
- Portuguese: “Guinea Grass”
- Spanish: “Guinea Grass Town”
- Spanish: “Guinea Grass”
- Ukrainian: “Ґінея Ґрасс”
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