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.
- City with 20,800 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 184 feet (56 metres)
- …has the IATA airport code BCV
- …is named after Mopan River
- Description: capital of Belize
- Also known as“City of Promise”“Hattieville”“Mopan”“The Garden City”“The Planned City”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Belmopan Hector Silva Airport and FFB Stadium.
National Assembly Building of Belize
Government office
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.
Camalote
Village
Camalote is a village located along the George Price Highway in Cayo District, Belize.
Belmopan
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Latitude
17.2502° or 17° 15′ 1″ north
Longitude
-88.77° or 88° 46′ 12″ west
UN/LOCODE
BZ BMP
Open location code
769H762H+3X
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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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”
- Batak Toba: “Belmopan”
- 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”
- Central Kurdish: “بێلمۆپان”
- 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”
- Karekare: “Belmopan”
- 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”
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