Belmopan
Belmopan 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 Belize City in 1961.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 20,800 residents
- Description: capital of Belize
- Also known as: “City of Promise”, “Hattieville”, “Mopan”, “The Garden City”, and “The Planned City”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Belmopan Hector Silva Airport and FFB Stadium.
Belmopan Hector Silva Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: RipIxi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hector Silva airstrip is an airport located in Cayo District serving Belmopan, the capital city of Belize. The runway is on the northern edge of the city off the George Price Highway, and has a small terminal building.
FFB Stadium
Pitch
Photo: GatoCR84, CC BY-SA 4.0.
FFB Stadium is a football stadium in Belmopan, Belize. It has a capacity of 5,000 spectators. It is the home stadium for the Belize national football team, and is also used by the Premier League of Belize team Police United.
National Assembly Building of Belize
Government office
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The National Assembly Building of Belize is the home of Belize's two houses of Parliament - the House of Representatives and the Senate of Belize. It is located in Belmopan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Roaring Creek and Camalote.
Roaring Creek
Village
Roaring Creek is a small village in the Cayo District of Belize, just north-west of Belmopan. Its name is derived from the creek waterfalls which flow into the Belize River next to the Guanacaste Park area.
Camalote
Village
Camalote is a village located along the George Price Highway in Cayo District, Belize. It lies approximately five kilometers west of Belmopan.
Belmopan
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Cayo, Belize, Central America, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
17.2502° or 17° 15′ 1″ northLongitude
-88.77° or 88° 46′ 12″ westPopulation
20,800Elevation
184 feet (56 metres)Named after
Mopan RiverIATA airport code
BCVUnited Nations Location Code
BZ BMPOpen location code
769H762H+3XOpenStreetMap ID
node 282294082OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zulu—“Belmopan” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Bèlmopan”
- Afrikaans: “Belmopan”
- Albanian: “Belmopan”
- Amharic: “ቤልሞፓን”
- Arabic: “بلموبان”
- Aragonese: “Belmopan”
- Armenian: “Բելմոպան”
- Arpitan: “Bèlmopan”
- Asturian: “Belmopan”
- Asturian: “Belmopán”
- Azerbaijani: “Belmopan”
- Balinese: “Bélmopan”
- Basque: “Belmopan”
- Batak Toba: “Belmonpan”
- Belarusian: “Бельмапан”
- Belarusian: “Бэльмапан”
- Bengali: “পরিকল্পিত শহর”
- Bengali: “প্রতিশ্রুতির শহর”
- Bengali: “বাগানের শহর”
- Bengali: “বেলমোপান”
- Bosnian: “Belmopan”
- Breton: “Belmopan”
- Bulgarian: “Белмопан”
- Catalan: “Belmopan”
- Cebuano: “Belmopan”
- Chinese: “Belmopan”
- Chinese: “貝爾莫潘”
- Chinese: “貝爾墨潘”
- Chinese: “貝爾墨邦”
- Chinese: “贝尔莫潘 / 貝爾墨潘”
- Chinese: “贝尔莫潘”
- Chinese: “贝尔墨邦”
- Croatian: “Belmopan”
- Czech: “Belmopan”
- Danish: “Belmopan”
- Dutch: “Belmopan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بلموبان”
- Esperanto: “Belmopano”
- Estonian: “Belmopan”
- Faroese: “Belmopan”
- Fiji Hindi: “Belmopan”
- Finnish: “Belmopan”
- French: “Belmopan”
- French: “Belmopán”
- Galician: “Belmopán”
- Georgian: “ბელმოპანი”
- German: “Belmopan”
- Greek: “Μπελμοπάν”
- Gujarati: “બેલમોપાન”
- Haitian: “Bèlmopan”
- Hakka Chinese: “Belmopan”
- Hebrew: “בלמופן”
- Hindi: “बेल्मोपान”
- Hungarian: “Belmopan”
- Icelandic: “Belmópan”
- Ido: “Belmopan”
- Indonesian: “Belmopan”
- Interlingue: “Belmopan”
- Irish: “Belmopan”
- Italian: “Belmopan”
- Japanese: “ベルモパン”
- Kabyle: “Belmopan”
- Kannada: “ಬೆಲ್ಮೋಪಾನ್”
- Kazakh: “Бельмопан”
- Kikuyu: “Belmopan”
- Korean: “벨모판”
- Kotava: “Belmopan”
- Kurdish: “Belmopan”
- Ladino: “Belmopan”
- Latin: “Belmopanum”
- Latvian: “Belmopana”
- Ligurian: “Belmopan”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Belmopan”
- Lithuanian: “Belmopanas”
- Livvi: “Bel’mopan”
- Lombard: “Belmopan”
- Low German: “Belmopan”
- Luxembourgish: “Belmopan”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Belmopan”
- Macedonian: “Белмопан”
- Malagasy: “Belmopan”
- Malay: “Belmopan”
- Maltese: “Belmopan”
- Marathi: “बेल्मोपान”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Belmopan”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Belmopan”
- Minangkabau: “Belmopan”
- Mingrelian: “ბელმოპანი”
- Moksha: “Бэльмопан”
- Moroccan Arabic: “بيلموپان”
- Northern Frisian: “Belmopan”
- Northern Sami: “Belmopan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Belmopan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Belmopan”
- Norwegian: “Belmopan”
- Novial: “Belmopan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Belmopan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Belmopán”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bælmōpan”
- Ossetian: “Бельмопан”
- Panjabi: “ਬੈਲਮੋਪਾਨ”
- Papiamento: “Belmopan”
- Persian: “بلموپان”
- Piemontese: “Belmopan”
- Polish: “Belmopan”
- Portuguese: “Belmopã”
- Portuguese: “Belmopan”
- Pushto: “بلموپان”
- Quechua: “Belmopan”
- Romanian: “Belmopan”
- Romansh: “Belmopan”
- Russian: “Бельмопан”
- Sakizaya: “Payl-mu-pang”
- Sardinian: “Belmopan”
- Saterfriesisch: “Belmopan”
- Scots: “Belmopan”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Belmopan”
- Serbian: “Белмопан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Belmopan”
- Shona: “Belmopan”
- Sindhi: “بيلموپان”
- Sinhala: “බෙල්මොපන්”
- Slovak: “Belmopan”
- Slovenian: “Belmopan”
- Spanish: “Belmopan”
- Spanish: “Belmopán”
- Swahili: “Belmopan”
- Swedish: “Belmopan”
- Tagalog: “Belmopan”
- Tajik: “Белмопан”
- Talysh: “Belmopan”
- Tamil: “பெல்மோப்பான்”
- Telugu: “బెల్మోపాన్”
- Thai: “เบลโมแพน”
- Tibetan: “པེར་མོ་ཕན།”
- Tornedalen Finnish: “Belmopan”
- Turkish: “Belmopan”
- Turkish: “Belmopán”
- Udmurt: “Бельмопан”
- Ukrainian: “Бельмопан”
- Upper Sorbian: “Belmopan”
- Urdu: “بلموپان”
- Uzbek: “Belmopan”
- Venetian: “Belmopan”
- Veps: “Bel’mopan”
- Vietnamese: “Belmopan”
- Volapük: “Belmopan”
- Võro: “Belmopan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Belmopan”
- Welsh: “Belmopan”
- Western Frisian: “Belmopan”
- Western Panjabi: “بیلموپان”
- Wu Chinese: “贝尔莫潘”
- Yakut: “Белмопан”
- Yiddish: “בעלמאפאן”
- Yoruba: “Belmopan”
- Yue Chinese: “貝爾莫潘”
- Zulu: “i-Belmopan”
- “Belmopan”
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