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Belize offers 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.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Belmopan and Belize City.

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is the capital of Belize, nearer the geographic center of the country than Belize City. It was established following the massive damage that occurred when Hurricane Hattie struck in 1961.

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is the largest city in Belize. It is on a small peninsula protruding into the Sea. It was the capital city until flooding and other damage from a hurricane in 1961 prompted the government to relocate to , closer to the geographic centre of the country.

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is a small town in the region of Belize, with around 25,000 citizens. , or Cayo as it is called, is on the Macal river, and makes a good and affordable base for exploration of the stunning regions around it, with plenty of day trips to be taken and several decent tour guides willing to take you.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Cayo and Belize District.

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is a district located in the west part of Belize, and it contains the capital, . It is the most extensive, second-most populous and third-most densely populated of the six districts of Belize. The district's capital is the town of .

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is on the central coastline of Belize, and the location of the country's largest city, . It also encompasses barrier islands in the Caribbean and wildlife sanctuaries just inland.

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is a district in the south east region of Belize. According to the 2022 census, the district had a population of 48,162 people. Its capital is the town of , formerly known as "Stann Creek Town".

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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.

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is a region consisting of Belize's administrative districts of Orange Walk and Corozal.

Belize

Latitude of center
17.19° or 17° 11′ 24″ north
Longitude of center
-88.68° or 88° 40′ 48″ west
Population
328,000
Area
8,867 miles² (22,966 km²)
Elevation
226 feet (69 metres)
Capital
Currency
Dollar (BZD)
Phone code
.bz
Internet domain
501
Open­Street­Map ID
node 332779764
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
3582678
Wiki­data ID
Q242
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Belize” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Белиз”
  • Achinese: “Belize”
  • Adyghe: “Белиз”
  • Afrikaans: “Belize”
  • Akan: “Beliz”
  • Albanian: “Beliza”
  • Albanian: “Belize”
  • Albanian: “Belizë”
  • Amharic: “በሊዝ”
  • Amharic: “ቤሊዘ”
  • Amharic: “ቤሊዝ”
  • Amis: “Belize”
  • Angika: “बेलीज”
  • Arabic: “بليز”
  • Aragonese: “Belize”
  • Armenian: “Բելիզ”
  • Arpitan: “Belize”
  • Assamese: “বেলিজ”
  • Asturian: “Belice”
  • Asturian: “Belize”
  • Atayal: “Belize”
  • Aymara: “Wilisi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Beliz”
  • Balinese: “Bélize”
  • Bambara: “Belize”
  • Bambara: “Belizi”
  • Bashkir: “Белиз”
  • Basque: “Belize”
  • Bavarian: “Belize”
  • Belarusian: “Беліз”
  • Belarusian: “Бэліз”
  • Bengali: “বেলিজ”
  • Bengali: “বেলিয”
  • Betawi: “Bélis”
  • 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”
  • Cornish: “Beliz”
  • Corsican: “Belise”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Beliz”
  • Croatian: “Belize”
  • Czech: “Belize”
  • Dagbani: “Belize”
  • Danish: “Belize”
  • Dhivehi: “ބެލީޒު”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Beliz”
  • Dotyali: “बेलिज”
  • Dutch: “Belize”
  • Dutch: “BLZ”
  • Dutch: “BZ”
  • Dzongkha: “བྷེ་ལིཛ”
  • Dzongkha: “བེ་ལིཛ།”
  • Eastern Mari: “Белиз”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيليز”
  • Erzya: “Белиз”
  • Esperanto: “Belizo”
  • Esperanto: “BZ”
  • Estonian: “Belize”
  • Ewe: “Belize nutome”
  • Ewe: “Belize”
  • Extremaduran: “Belici”
  • Extremaduran: “Belize”
  • Faroese: “Belis”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Belize”
  • Finnish: “Belize”
  • Finnish: “Brittiläinen Honduras”
  • French: “Belize”
  • French: “Bélize”
  • French: “BZ”
  • French: “le Bélize”
  • Fulah: “Beliise”
  • Gagauz: “Beliz”
  • Galician: “Belice”
  • Galician: “Belize”
  • Ganda: “Belize”
  • Georgian: “ბელიზი”
  • German: “Belize”
  • German: “Britisch Honduras”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Belize”
  • Gilaki: “بليز”
  • 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: “Bélisé”
  • Javanese: “Belize”
  • Kabiyè: “Peliizi”
  • Kabyle: “Belize”
  • Kalaallisut: “Belize”
  • Kalmyk: “Белсин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಬೆಲಿಜ್”
  • Kannada: “ಬೆಲೀಜ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Beliz”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Белиз”
  • Kashmiri: “بیلِج”
  • Kashmiri: “बेलीज”
  • Kashubian: “Belize”
  • 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: “ເບລິຊ”
  • Lao: “ເບລີຊ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດເບລິດ”
  • 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: “Belise”
  • 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: “Bèliz”
  • Madurese: “Belize”
  • Maithili: “बेलिज”
  • Malagasy: “Belize”
  • Malagasy: “Belizy”
  • Malay: “Belize”
  • Malayalam: “ബെലീസ്”
  • Maltese: “Belize”
  • Maltese: “Beliże”
  • Maltese: “il-Belize”
  • Manipuri: “ꯕꯦꯂꯤꯓꯦ”
  • Manx: “Beleesh”
  • Manx: “y Veleesh”
  • 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”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بيليز”
  • Nauru: “Berij”
  • Neapolitan: “Belize”
  • Nepali: “बेलिज”
  • Newari: “बेलिज”
  • North Ndebele: “Bhelize”
  • Northern Frisian: “Belize”
  • Northern Sami: “Belize”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Belize”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Belize”
  • Norwegian: “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: “Belísi”
  • Pampanga: “Belize”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੇਲੀਜ਼”
  • Papiamento: “Belize”
  • Persian: “بلیز”
  • Picard: “Belize”
  • Piemontese: “Belis”
  • Piemontese: “Belize”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Beles”
  • Polish: “Belize”
  • Polish: “BZ”
  • Portuguese: “Belize”
  • Pushto: “بلیز”
  • Pushto: “بېليز”
  • 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”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴱⵉⵍⵉⵣ”
  • Sundanese: “Bélis”
  • Swahili: “Belize”
  • Swati: “IBhelizi”
  • Swedish: “Belize”
  • Swiss German: “Belize”
  • Tachelhit: “Beliz”
  • 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: “เบลีซ”
  • Thai: “ประเทศเบลีซ”
  • 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: “Bê-li-xê”
  • Vietnamese: “Belize”
  • Vlax Romani: “Belize”
  • Volapük: “Belisän”
  • Võro: “Belize”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Belize”
  • Welsh: “Belîs”
  • Welsh: “Belize”
  • Western Armenian: “Պելիզ”
  • Western Balochi: “بلیز”
  • Western Frisian: “Belize”
  • Western Mari: “Белиз”
  • Western Panjabi: “بیلیز”
  • Wolof: “Beliis”
  • Wolof: “Belis”
  • Wu Chinese: “伯利兹”
  • 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”
  • “Belėzos”
  • “Belice”
  • “Belize”
  • “BLZ”
  • “BZ”
  • “ma Peli”
  • “बेलीज”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Belize”. Photo: Josh Steinitz, CC BY 2.0.