Belize
Belize is a country in Central America, with its capital at Belmopan, and is home to roughly 417.1K people.
Its official languages are Belizean Creole, English, Spanish; the currency in circulation is Belize dollar ($); people from here are called Belizean.
> INTEL_
> NOTABLE_
- »The Great Blue Hole, a near-perfect circular sinkhole over 300 m across, sits off the coast.
- »It is the only country in Central America where English is the official language.
> BORDERS_
Belize touches two neighbours: Guatemala to the southwest and Mexico to the northwest. Directions run from one centre to the other.
> THE CAPITAL_
Belmopan was built inland in 1970 after Hurricane Hattie devastated the coastal capital, Belize City. It is among the smallest capital cities in the world by population.
> SCALE_
22,759 km² (8,787 sq mi), 148th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Israel.
Population 417,072, 173rd of 198 on file. That averages 18 per km² (47 per sq mi).
> THE FLAG_
The only national flag whose central design features human beings: two woodcutters, one African and one mestizo, flanking a mahogany tree, the trade the colony was built on.