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.
- »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.
Belize touches two neighbours: Guatemala to the southwest and Mexico to the northwest. Directions run from one centre to the other.
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.
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 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.