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Belize District

Belize City

Belize City is the largest city in . 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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  • Type: City with 64,000 residents
  • Description: most populous city in Belize and capital of the district of Belize
  • Also known as: “Altepetl Belice”, “Balize”, and “Belice”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Belize City Municipal Airport and Museum of Belize.

Aerodrome
Photo: Denis Barthel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sir Barry Bowen Municipal Airport is an airport serving Belize City, Belize. It is only one mile from the city center, and is more centrally located to the city than is .

Museum
Photo: Bernt Rostad, CC BY 2.0.
The is an art and history museum in Belize City, .

Church
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is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the city of Belize City, . It is canonically the mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Belize City-Belmopan.

Belize City

Latitude
17.5003° or 17° 30′ 1″ north
Longitude
-88.1989° or 88° 11′ 56″ west
Population
64,000
Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)
IATA airport code
BZE
United Nations Location Code
BZ BZE
Open location code
769HGR22+4F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 282297046
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3582677
Wiki­data ID
Q108223
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Belize City” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Belize-stad”
  • Albanian: “Beliza”
  • Albanian: “Belize City”
  • Arabic: “مدينة بليز”
  • Armenian: “Բելիզ (քաղաք)”
  • Armenian: “Բելիզ”
  • Asturian: “Ciudá de Belice”
  • Asturian: “Ciudá de Belize”
  • Azerbaijani: “Beliz”
  • Basque: “Belize City”
  • Belarusian: “Беліз (горад)”
  • Belarusian: “Беліз”
  • Belarusian: “Бэліз”
  • Bengali: “বেলিজ শহর”
  • Bengali: “বেলিজ”
  • Bosnian: “Beliz”
  • Bulgarian: “Белиз Сити”
  • Burmese: “ဘလိဇ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Belize City”
  • Catalan: “Ciutat de Belize”
  • Cebuano: “Belize City”
  • Chinese: “伯利兹城”
  • Chinese: “伯利兹市”
  • Chinese: “伯利茲市”
  • Chinese: “貝里斯市”
  • Croatian: “Belize City”
  • Czech: “Belize City”
  • Danish: “Belize City”
  • Dutch: “Belize City”
  • Dutch: “Belize-stad”
  • Dutch: “Belize-Stad”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بليز”
  • Esperanto: “Belizo”
  • Esperanto: “Belizurbo”
  • Estonian: “Belize”
  • Finnish: “Belize City”
  • French: “Belize City”
  • French: “Belize”
  • Galician: “Cidade de Belize”
  • Georgian: “ბელიზი (ქალაქი)”
  • Georgian: “ბელიზი”
  • German: “Belize City”
  • German: “Belize Stadt”
  • German: “Belize-Stadt”
  • Greek: “Πόλη της Μπελίζ”
  • Greek: “Πόλη του Μπελίζ”
  • Gujarati: “બેલીઝ શહેર”
  • Gujarati: “બેલીઝ”
  • Hebrew: “בליז סיטי”
  • Hindi: “बेलीज़ नगर”
  • Hindi: “बेलीज़ सिटी”
  • Hungarian: “Belize City”
  • Hungarian: “Belizeváros”
  • Icelandic: “Belís”
  • Ido: “Belize City”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Belize”
  • Interlingue: “Belize City”
  • Italian: “Belize (città)”
  • Italian: “Belize City”
  • Italian: “Belize”
  • Italian: “Città del Belize”
  • Italian: “Ciudad de Belice”
  • Japanese: “ベリーズ・シティ”
  • Japanese: “ベリーズ・シティー”
  • Japanese: “ベリーズシティ”
  • Japanese: “ベリーズシティー”
  • Japanese: “ベリーズ市”
  • Kannada: “ಬೆಲೀಜ್”
  • Kazakh: “Белиз”
  • Kikuyu: “Belize City”
  • Korean: “벨리즈 시”
  • Korean: “벨리즈 시티”
  • Korean: “벨리즈시티”
  • Ladino: “Sivdad de Belize”
  • Latvian: “Beliza”
  • Lithuanian: “Belizas”
  • Low German: “Belize City”
  • Low German: “Belize”
  • Macedonian: “Белиз”
  • Macedonian: “Белизе”
  • Malay: “Bandar Raya Belize”
  • Malay: “Bandaraya Belize”
  • Marathi: “बेलीझ शहर”
  • Marathi: “बेलीझ सिटी”
  • Mongolian: “Белиз”
  • Northern Frisian: “Belize City”
  • Northern Sami: “Belize City”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Belize City”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Belize by”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Belize City”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Belize Town”
  • Norwegian: “Belize City”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Belize City”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Belize”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ciudad de Belice”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ciutat de Belize”
  • Ossetian: “Белиз (сахар)”
  • Ossetian: “Белиз”
  • Papiamento: “Belize City”
  • Persian: “بلیز سیتی”
  • Polish: “Belize City”
  • Portuguese: “Belize City”
  • Portuguese: “Belize”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade de Belize”
  • Romanian: “Belize City”
  • Russian: “Белиз”
  • Russian: “Столица Белиза”
  • Sardinian: “Belize City”
  • Scots: “Belize Ceety”
  • Serbian: “Белизе”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Belize City”
  • Silesian: “Belize City”
  • Sinhala: “බෙලීස් නගරය”
  • Sinhala: “බෙලීස්”
  • Slovak: “Belize City”
  • Slovenian: “Beliz”
  • Slovenian: “Belize”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Belice”
  • Swahili: “Belize City”
  • Swedish: “Belize City”
  • Tagalog: “Belis”
  • Tajik: “Белиз”
  • Tamil: “பெலிஸி நகரம்”
  • Tamil: “பெலீசு”
  • Telugu: “బెలిజ్”
  • Thai: “เบลีซซิตี”
  • Turkish: “Belize City”
  • Turkish: “Belize”
  • Turkmen: “Belize şäheri”
  • Uighur: “Béliz Shehiri”
  • Uighur: “بېلىز شەھىرى”
  • Ukrainian: “Беліз”
  • Urdu: “بیلیز شہر”
  • Uzbek: “Beliz (shahar)”
  • Uzbek: “Beliz”
  • Veps: “Beliz”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Belize”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Syudad han Belize”
  • Welsh: “Dinas Belîs”
  • Welsh: “Dinas Belize”
  • Wu Chinese: “伯利兹城”
  • “Āltepētl Belice”

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