Cayo
Cayo is a district located in the west part of Belize, and it contains the capital, Belmopan. 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 San Ignacio.
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San Ignacio
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Cayo
- Type: district of Belize with 103,000 residents
- Description: district of Belize
- Also known as: “BZ-CY”, “Cayo District”, “Distrikt Cayo”, “Distrito del Cayo”, and “Western District”
- Neighbors: Belize District, Melchor de Mencos, Stann Creek, and Toledo
- Location: Belize, Central America, North America
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Latitude of center
17° north
Longitude of center
-88.9° or 88° 54′ west
Population
103,000
Elevation
2,152 feet (656 metres)
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Vietnamese—“Cayo” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ካዮ ወረዳ”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة كايو”
- Asturian: “distritu de Cayo”
- Azerbaijani: “Cayo rayonu”
- Bengali: “কায়ো জেলা”
- Bulgarian: “Кайо”
- Catalan: “districte de Cayo”
- Catalan: “Districte de Cayo”
- Cebuano: “Cayo District”
- Chinese: “卡約區”
- Chinese: “卡约”
- Chinese: “卡约区”
- Croatian: “Cayo (okrug)”
- Croatian: “Cayo”
- Danish: “Cayo”
- Dutch: “Cayo”
- Esperanto: “Cayo”
- Finnish: “Cayo”
- Finnish: “Cayon kaupunginosa”
- Finnish: “Cayonin alue”
- French: “Cayo”
- French: “District de Cayo”
- Galician: “Distrito de Cayo”
- German: “Cayo District”
- Greek: “Κάγιο”
- Gujarati: “કેયો જિલ્લો”
- Hausa: “Cayo District”
- Hindi: “कायो जिला”
- Hungarian: “Cayo körzet”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Cayo”
- Italian: “distretto di Cayo”
- Italian: “Distretto di Cayo”
- Japanese: “カヨ州”
- Japanese: “カヨ郡”
- Javanese: “Distrik Cayo”
- Kannada: “ಕಯೋ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ”
- Kazakh: “Кайо округі”
- Kirghiz: “Cayo районы”
- Korean: “카요구”
- Ladino: “Cayo”
- Latvian: “Kajo distrikts”
- Lithuanian: “Kajo rajonas”
- Low German: “Cayo”
- Malay: “Cayo District”
- Marathi: “काओ जिल्हा”
- Marathi: “कायो जिल्हा”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Cayo Khu”
- Minangkabau: “Distrik Cayo”
- Northern Frisian: “Cayo”
- Northern Sami: “Cayo (guovlu)”
- Northern Sami: “Cayo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cayo”
- Norwegian: “Cayo”
- Oromo: “Giddoo Cayo”
- Panjabi: “ਕਾਯੋ ਜ਼ਿਲ੍ਹਾ”
- Persian: “ناحیه کایو”
- Polish: “Dystrykt Cayo”
- Portuguese: “Cayo”
- Pushto: “کایو ولسوالۍ”
- Russian: “Кайо”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cayo (okrug)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cayo”
- Sinhala: “කායෝ දිස්ත්රික්කය, බෙලීස්”
- Sinhala: “කායෝ දිස්ත්රික්කය”
- Slovenian: “Cayo”
- Somali: “Degmada Cayo”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Cayo”
- Swahili: “Wilaya wa Cayo”
- Swedish: “Cayo”
- Tagalog: “Distrito ng Cayo”
- Tajik: “Ноҳияи Кайо”
- Tamil: “காயோ மாவட்டம்”
- Tatar: “Кайо районы”
- Telugu: “కాయో జిల్లా”
- Thai: “คาโย”
- Turkish: “Cayo District”
- Ukrainian: “Кайо”
- Ukrainian: “Район Кайо”
- Urdu: “کایو ضلع”
- Uzbek: “Cayo tumani”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Cayo”
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