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id="toc-Government_and_politics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Political_culture" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Political_culture"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.1 Political culture </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Political_culture-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Foreign_relations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Foreign_relations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.2 Foreign relations </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Foreign_relations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Armed_forces" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Armed_forces"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.3 Armed forces </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Armed_forces-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Administrative_divisions" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" 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href="#Natural_resources_and_energy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.3 Natural resources and energy </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Natural_resources_and_energy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Belize_Barrier_Reef" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Belize_Barrier_Reef"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.4 Belize Barrier Reef </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Belize_Barrier_Reef-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Species" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Species"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.4.1 Species </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Species-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Conservation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Conservation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.4.2 Conservation </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Conservation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Climate" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Climate"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.5 Climate </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Climate-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Economy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Economy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5 Economy </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Economy-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Economy subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Economy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Industrial_infrastructure" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Industrial_infrastructure"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.1 Industrial infrastructure </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Industrial_infrastructure-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Tourism" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Tourism"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2 Tourism </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Tourism-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Demographics" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Demographics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6 Demographics </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Demographics-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Demographics subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Demographics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Ethnic_groups" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ethnic_groups"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.1 Ethnic groups </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ethnic_groups-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-The_Maya" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#The_Maya"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.1.1 The Maya </div> </a> <ul id="toc-The_Maya-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Belizean_Creoles" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Belizean_Creoles"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.1.2 Belizean Creoles </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Belizean_Creoles-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Belizean_Creole_language" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Belizean_Creole_language"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.1.3 Belizean Creole language </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Belizean_Creole_language-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Garinagu" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Garinagu"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.1.4 Garinagu </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Garinagu-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Belizean_Hispanics" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a 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</ul> </li> <li id="toc-Emigration,_immigration,_and_demographic_shifts" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Emigration,_immigration,_and_demographic_shifts"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.1.9 Emigration, immigration, and demographic shifts </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Emigration,_immigration,_and_demographic_shifts-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Languages" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Languages"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.2 Languages </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Languages-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Largest_cities" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Largest_cities"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.3 Largest cities </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Largest_cities-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Religion" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a 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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading">Belize</h1> <div id="p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown mw-portlet mw-portlet-lang" > <input type="checkbox" id="p-lang-btn-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox mw-interlanguage-selector" aria-label="Go to an article in another language. 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class="interlanguage-link-target">Адыгабзэ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-af mw-list-item"><a href="https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Afrikaans" lang="af" hreflang="af" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Afrikaans" data-language-local-name="Afrikaans" class="interlanguage-link-target">Afrikaans</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-als mw-list-item"><a href="https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Alemannisch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-am mw-list-item"><a href="https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%89%A4%E1%88%8A%E1%8B%9D" title="ቤሊዝ – Amharic" lang="am" hreflang="am" data-title="ቤሊዝ" data-language-autonym="አማርኛ" data-language-local-name="Amharic" class="interlanguage-link-target">አማርኛ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-smn mw-list-item"><a href="https://smn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Inari Sami" lang="smn" hreflang="smn" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Anarâškielâ" data-language-local-name="Inari Sami" class="interlanguage-link-target">Anarâškielâ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-anp mw-list-item"><a href="https://anp.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%9C" title="बेलीज – Angika" lang="anp" hreflang="anp" data-title="बेलीज" data-language-autonym="अंगिका" data-language-local-name="Angika" class="interlanguage-link-target">अंगिका</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ang mw-list-item"><a href="https://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bel%C4%ABs" title="Belīs – Old English" lang="ang" hreflang="ang" data-title="Belīs" data-language-autonym="Ænglisc" data-language-local-name="Old English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ænglisc</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ab mw-list-item"><a href="https://ab.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7" title="Белиз – Abkhazian" lang="ab" hreflang="ab" data-title="Белиз" data-language-autonym="Аԥсшәа" data-language-local-name="Abkhazian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Аԥсшәа</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B2" title="بليز – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="بليز" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">العربية</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Aragonés</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-roa-rup mw-list-item"><a href="https://roa-rup.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Aromanian" lang="rup" hreflang="rup" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Armãneashti" data-language-local-name="Aromanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Armãneashti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frp mw-list-item"><a href="https://frp.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Arpitan" lang="frp" hreflang="frp" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Arpetan" data-language-local-name="Arpitan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Arpetan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Asturianu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gn mw-list-item"><a href="https://gn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vel%C3%ADse" title="Velíse – Guarani" lang="gn" hreflang="gn" data-title="Velíse" data-language-autonym="Avañe'ẽ" data-language-local-name="Guarani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Avañe'ẽ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ay mw-list-item"><a href="https://ay.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilisi" title="Wilisi – Aymara" lang="ay" hreflang="ay" data-title="Wilisi" data-language-autonym="Aymar aru" data-language-local-name="Aymara" class="interlanguage-link-target">Aymar aru</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beliz" title="Beliz – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Beliz" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Azərbaycanca</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B2" title="بلیز – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="بلیز" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">تۆرکجه</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ban mw-list-item"><a href="https://ban.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9lize" title="Bélize – Balinese" lang="ban" hreflang="ban" data-title="Bélize" data-language-autonym="Basa Bali" data-language-local-name="Balinese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Basa Bali</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bm mw-list-item"><a href="https://bm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Bambara" lang="bm" hreflang="bm" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Bamanankan" data-language-local-name="Bambara" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bamanankan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%9C" title="বেলিজ – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="বেলিজ" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target">বাংলা</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target">閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-map-bms mw-list-item"><a href="https://map-bms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Banyumasan" lang="jv-x-bms" hreflang="jv-x-bms" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Basa Banyumasan" data-language-local-name="Banyumasan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Basa Banyumasan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7" title="Белиз – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Белиз" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target">Башҡортса</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%B7" title="Беліз – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Беліз" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%8D%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%B7" title="Бэліз – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Бэліз" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bh mw-list-item"><a href="https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%9C" title="बेलीज – Bhojpuri" lang="bh" hreflang="bh" data-title="बेलीज" data-language-autonym="भोजपुरी" data-language-local-name="Bhojpuri" class="interlanguage-link-target">भोजपुरी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belisa" title="Belisa – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" data-title="Belisa" data-language-autonym="Bikol Central" data-language-local-name="Central Bikol" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bikol Central</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bi mw-list-item"><a href="https://bi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Bislama" lang="bi" hreflang="bi" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Bislama" data-language-local-name="Bislama" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bislama</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7" title="Белиз – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Белиз" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bar mw-list-item"><a href="https://bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Bavarian" lang="bar" hreflang="bar" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Boarisch" data-language-local-name="Bavarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Boarisch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bo mw-list-item"><a href="https://bo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BD%96%E0%BD%BA%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%A3%E0%BD%B2%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%9B%E0%BD%B2%E0%BC%8D" title="བེ་ལི་ཛི། – Tibetan" lang="bo" hreflang="bo" data-title="བེ་ལི་ཛི།" data-language-autonym="བོད་ཡིག" data-language-local-name="Tibetan" class="interlanguage-link-target">བོད་ཡིག</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beliz" title="Beliz – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Beliz" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bosanski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target">Brezhoneg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bxr mw-list-item"><a href="https://bxr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7" title="Белиз – Russia Buriat" lang="bxr" hreflang="bxr" data-title="Белиз" data-language-autonym="Буряад" data-language-local-name="Russia Buriat" class="interlanguage-link-target">Буряад</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7" title="Белиз – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Белиз" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target">Чӑвашла</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cebuano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cbk-zam mw-list-item"><a href="https://cbk-zam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belice" title="Belice – Chavacano" lang="cbk" hreflang="cbk" data-title="Belice" data-language-autonym="Chavacano de Zamboanga" data-language-local-name="Chavacano" class="interlanguage-link-target">Chavacano de Zamboanga</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sn mw-list-item"><a href="https://sn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Shona" lang="sn" hreflang="sn" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="ChiShona" data-language-local-name="Shona" class="interlanguage-link-target">ChiShona</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-co mw-list-item"><a href="https://co.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belise" title="Belise – Corsican" lang="co" hreflang="co" data-title="Belise" data-language-autonym="Corsu" data-language-local-name="Corsican" class="interlanguage-link-target">Corsu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bel%C3%AEs" title="Belîs – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Belîs" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cymraeg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dag mw-list-item"><a href="https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Dagbani" lang="dag" hreflang="dag" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Dagbanli" data-language-local-name="Dagbani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dagbanli</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ary mw-list-item"><a href="https://ary.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B2" title="بيليز – Moroccan Arabic" lang="ary" hreflang="ary" data-title="بيليز" data-language-autonym="الدارجة" data-language-local-name="Moroccan Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">الدارجة</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-se mw-list-item"><a href="https://se.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Northern Sami" lang="se" hreflang="se" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Davvisámegiella" data-language-local-name="Northern Sami" class="interlanguage-link-target">Davvisámegiella</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dv mw-list-item"><a href="https://dv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DE%84%DE%AC%DE%8D%DE%A9%DE%92%DE%AA" title="ބެލީޒު – Divehi" lang="dv" hreflang="dv" data-title="ބެލީޒު" data-language-autonym="ދިވެހިބަސް" data-language-local-name="Divehi" class="interlanguage-link-target">ދިވެހިބަސް</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://dsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Lower Sorbian" lang="dsb" hreflang="dsb" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Dolnoserbski" data-language-local-name="Lower Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dolnoserbski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dty mw-list-item"><a href="https://dty.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%9C" title="बेलिज – Doteli" lang="dty" hreflang="dty" data-title="बेलिज" data-language-autonym="डोटेली" data-language-local-name="Doteli" class="interlanguage-link-target">डोटेली</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CF%80%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%AF%CE%B6" title="Μπελίζ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Μπελίζ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-myv mw-list-item"><a href="https://myv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7" title="Белиз – Erzya" lang="myv" hreflang="myv" data-title="Белиз" data-language-autonym="Эрзянь" data-language-local-name="Erzya" class="interlanguage-link-target">Эрзянь</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belice" title="Belice – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Belice" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belizo" title="Belizo – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Belizo" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ext mw-list-item"><a href="https://ext.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Extremaduran" lang="ext" hreflang="ext" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Estremeñu" data-language-local-name="Extremaduran" class="interlanguage-link-target">Estremeñu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ee mw-list-item"><a href="https://ee.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Ewe" lang="ee" hreflang="ee" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Eʋegbe" data-language-local-name="Ewe" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eʋegbe</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B2" title="بلیز – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="بلیز" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hif mw-list-item"><a href="https://hif.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Fiji Hindi" lang="hif" hreflang="hif" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Fiji Hindi" data-language-local-name="Fiji Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target">Fiji Hindi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belis" title="Belis – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="Belis" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Føroyskt</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Frysk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Bheil%C3%ADs" title="An Bheilís – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="An Bheilís" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gaeilge</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gv mw-list-item"><a href="https://gv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yn_Veleesh" title="Yn Veleesh – Manx" lang="gv" hreflang="gv" data-title="Yn Veleesh" data-language-autonym="Gaelg" data-language-local-name="Manx" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gaelg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gag mw-list-item"><a href="https://gag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beliz" title="Beliz – Gagauz" lang="gag" hreflang="gag" data-title="Beliz" data-language-autonym="Gagauz" data-language-local-name="Gagauz" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gagauz</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beilise" title="Beilise – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="Beilise" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gàidhlig</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target">Galego</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-glk mw-list-item"><a href="https://glk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B2" title="بليز – Gilaki" lang="glk" hreflang="glk" data-title="بليز" data-language-autonym="گیلکی" data-language-local-name="Gilaki" class="interlanguage-link-target">گیلکی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gu mw-list-item"><a href="https://gu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AA%AC%E0%AB%87%E0%AA%B2%E0%AA%BF%E0%AA%9D" title="બેલિઝ – Gujarati" lang="gu" hreflang="gu" data-title="બેલિઝ" data-language-autonym="ગુજરાતી" data-language-local-name="Gujarati" class="interlanguage-link-target">ગુજરાતી</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gom mw-list-item"><a href="https://gom.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%9D" title="बेलिझ – Goan Konkani" lang="gom" hreflang="gom" data-title="बेलिझ" data-language-autonym="गोंयची कोंकणी / Gõychi Konknni" data-language-local-name="Goan Konkani" class="interlanguage-link-target">गोंयची कोंकणी / Gõychi Konknni</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak mw-list-item"><a href="https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî" data-language-local-name="Hakka Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target">客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B2%A8%EB%A6%AC%EC%A6%88" title="벨리즈 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="벨리즈" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ha mw-list-item"><a href="https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Hausa" lang="ha" hreflang="ha" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Hausa" data-language-local-name="Hausa" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hausa</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B2%D5%A5%D5%AC%D5%AB%D5%A6" title="Բելիզ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Բելիզ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Հայերեն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BC" title="बेलीज़ – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="बेलीज़" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target">हिन्दी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://hsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Upper Sorbian" lang="hsb" hreflang="hsb" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Hornjoserbsce" data-language-local-name="Upper Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hornjoserbsce</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hrvatski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ido</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ilo mw-list-item"><a href="https://ilo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belis" title="Belis – Iloko" lang="ilo" hreflang="ilo" data-title="Belis" data-language-autonym="Ilokano" data-language-local-name="Iloko" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ilokano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bpy mw-list-item"><a href="https://bpy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%9C" title="বেলিজ – Bishnupriya" lang="bpy" hreflang="bpy" data-title="বেলিজ" data-language-autonym="বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী" data-language-local-name="Bishnupriya" class="interlanguage-link-target">বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target">Interlingua</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ie mw-list-item"><a href="https://ie.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Interlingue" lang="ie" hreflang="ie" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Interlingue" data-language-local-name="Interlingue" class="interlanguage-link-target">Interlingue</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os mw-list-item"><a href="https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7" title="Белиз – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os" data-title="Белиз" data-language-autonym="Ирон" data-language-local-name="Ossetic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ирон</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zu mw-list-item"><a href="https://zu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Zulu" lang="zu" hreflang="zu" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="IsiZulu" data-language-local-name="Zulu" class="interlanguage-link-target">IsiZulu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bel%C3%ADs" title="Belís – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Belís" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Íslenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%96" title="בליז – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="בליז" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belis" title="Belis – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Belis" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Jawa</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kbp mw-list-item"><a href="https://kbp.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peliizi" title="Peliizi – Kabiye" lang="kbp" hreflang="kbp" data-title="Peliizi" data-language-autonym="Kabɩyɛ" data-language-local-name="Kabiye" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kabɩyɛ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%AC%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%B2%E0%B3%80%E0%B2%9C%E0%B3%8D" title="ಬೆಲೀಜ್ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಬೆಲೀಜ್" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target">ಕನ್ನಡ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pam mw-list-item"><a href="https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bel%C3%ADsi" title="Belísi – Pampanga" lang="pam" hreflang="pam" data-title="Belísi" data-language-autonym="Kapampangan" data-language-local-name="Pampanga" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kapampangan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%91%E1%83%94%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98%E1%83%96%E1%83%98" title="ბელიზი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ბელიზი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target">ქართული</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7" title="Белиз – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Белиз" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Қазақша</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belisa" title="Belisa – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" data-title="Belisa" data-language-autonym="Kernowek" data-language-local-name="Cornish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kernowek</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rw mw-list-item"><a href="https://rw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Kinyarwanda" lang="rw" hreflang="rw" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Ikinyarwanda" data-language-local-name="Kinyarwanda" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ikinyarwanda</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kiswahili</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-avk mw-list-item"><a href="https://avk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belizea" title="Belizea – Kotava" lang="avk" hreflang="avk" data-title="Belizea" data-language-autonym="Kotava" data-language-local-name="Kotava" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kotava</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ht mw-list-item"><a href="https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beliz" title="Beliz – Haitian Creole" lang="ht" hreflang="ht" data-title="Beliz" data-language-autonym="Kreyòl ayisyen" data-language-local-name="Haitian Creole" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kreyòl ayisyen</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gcr mw-list-item"><a href="https://gcr.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9liz" title="Béliz – Guianan Creole" lang="gcr" hreflang="gcr" data-title="Béliz" data-language-autonym="Kriyòl gwiyannen" data-language-local-name="Guianan Creole" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kriyòl gwiyannen</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bel%C3%AEze" title="Belîze – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Belîze" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kurdî</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7" title="Белиз – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Белиз" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target">Кыргызча</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mrj mw-list-item"><a href="https://mrj.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7" title="Белиз – Western Mari" lang="mrj" hreflang="mrj" data-title="Белиз" data-language-autonym="Кырык мары" data-language-local-name="Western Mari" class="interlanguage-link-target">Кырык мары</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lld mw-list-item"><a href="https://lld.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belis" title="Belis – Ladin" lang="lld" hreflang="lld" data-title="Belis" data-language-autonym="Ladin" data-language-local-name="Ladin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ladin</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lad mw-list-item"><a href="https://lad.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Ladino" lang="lad" hreflang="lad" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Ladino" data-language-local-name="Ladino" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ladino</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BA%9B%E0%BA%B0%E0%BB%80%E0%BA%97%E0%BA%94%E0%BB%80%E0%BA%9A%E0%BA%A5%E0%BA%B4%E0%BA%94" title="ປະເທດເບລິດ – Lao" lang="lo" hreflang="lo" data-title="ປະເທດເບລິດ" data-language-autonym="ລາວ" data-language-local-name="Lao" class="interlanguage-link-target">ລາວ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beliza" title="Beliza – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Beliza" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beliza" title="Beliza – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Beliza" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lëtzebuergesch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belizas" title="Belizas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Belizas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lij mw-list-item"><a href="https://lij.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Ligurian" lang="lij" hreflang="lij" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Ligure" data-language-local-name="Ligurian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ligure</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-li mw-list-item"><a href="https://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize_(land)" title="Belize (land) – Limburgish" lang="li" hreflang="li" data-title="Belize (land)" data-language-autonym="Limburgs" data-language-local-name="Limburgish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Limburgs</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ln mw-list-item"><a href="https://ln.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Lingala" lang="ln" hreflang="ln" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Lingála" data-language-local-name="Lingala" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lingála</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lfn mw-list-item"><a href="https://lfn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beliz" title="Beliz – Lingua Franca Nova" lang="lfn" hreflang="lfn" data-title="Beliz" data-language-autonym="Lingua Franca Nova" data-language-local-name="Lingua Franca Nova" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lingua Franca Nova</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-olo mw-list-item"><a href="https://olo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beliz" title="Beliz – Livvi-Karelian" lang="olo" hreflang="olo" data-title="Beliz" data-language-autonym="Livvinkarjala" data-language-local-name="Livvi-Karelian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Livvinkarjala</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jbo mw-list-item"><a href="https://jbo.wikipedia.org/wiki/beliz" title="beliz – Lojban" lang="jbo" hreflang="jbo" data-title="beliz" data-language-autonym="La .lojban." data-language-local-name="Lojban" class="interlanguage-link-target">La .lojban.</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lombard</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mad mw-list-item"><a href="https://mad.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A8liz" title="Bèliz – Madurese" lang="mad" hreflang="mad" data-title="Bèliz" data-language-autonym="Madhurâ" data-language-local-name="Madurese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Madhurâ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mai mw-list-item"><a href="https://mai.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%9C" title="बेलिज – Maithili" lang="mai" hreflang="mai" data-title="बेलिज" data-language-autonym="मैथिली" data-language-local-name="Maithili" class="interlanguage-link-target">मैथिली</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7" title="Белиз – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Белиз" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Македонски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belizy" title="Belizy – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Belizy" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target">Malagasy</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AC%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%B2%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D" title="ബെലീസ് – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ബെലീസ്" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target">മലയാളം</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mt mw-list-item"><a href="https://mt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beli%C5%BCe" title="Beliże – Maltese" lang="mt" hreflang="mt" data-title="Beliże" data-language-autonym="Malti" data-language-local-name="Maltese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Malti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mi mw-list-item"><a href="https://mi.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%93rihi" title="Pērihi – Māori" lang="mi" hreflang="mi" data-title="Pērihi" data-language-autonym="Māori" data-language-local-name="Māori" class="interlanguage-link-target">Māori</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%9D" title="बेलीझ – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="बेलीझ" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target">मराठी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%91%E1%83%94%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98%E1%83%96%E1%83%98" title="ბელიზი – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="ბელიზი" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target">მარგალური</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B2" title="بيليز – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="بيليز" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">مصرى</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B2" title="بلیز – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="بلیز" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target">مازِرونی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Melayu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mni mw-list-item"><a href="https://mni.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%AF%95%EA%AF%A6%EA%AF%82%EA%AF%A4%EA%AF%93%EA%AF%A6" title="ꯕꯦꯂꯤꯓꯦ – Manipuri" lang="mni" hreflang="mni" data-title="ꯕꯦꯂꯤꯓꯦ" data-language-autonym="ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ" data-language-local-name="Manipuri" class="interlanguage-link-target">ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-min mw-list-item"><a href="https://min.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Minangkabau" lang="min" hreflang="min" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Minangkabau" data-language-local-name="Minangkabau" class="interlanguage-link-target">Minangkabau</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cdo mw-list-item"><a href="https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Mindong" lang="cdo" hreflang="cdo" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄" data-language-local-name="Mindong" class="interlanguage-link-target">閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mdf mw-list-item"><a href="https://mdf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%8D%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7" title="Бэлиз – Moksha" lang="mdf" hreflang="mdf" data-title="Бэлиз" data-language-autonym="Мокшень" data-language-local-name="Moksha" class="interlanguage-link-target">Мокшень</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7" title="Белиз – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Белиз" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Монгол</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%98%E1%80%9C%E1%80%AD%E1%80%87%E1%80%BA%E1%80%94%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA%E1%80%84%E1%80%B6" title="ဘလိဇ်နိုင်ငံ – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="ဘလိဇ်နိုင်ငံ" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target">မြန်မာဘာသာ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize_(land)" title="Belize (land) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Belize (land)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds-nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belise" title="Belise – Low Saxon" lang="nds-NL" hreflang="nds-NL" data-title="Belise" data-language-autonym="Nedersaksies" data-language-local-name="Low Saxon" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nedersaksies</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%9C" title="बेलिज – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="बेलिज" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target">नेपाली</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-new mw-list-item"><a href="https://new.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%9C" title="बेलिज – Newari" lang="new" hreflang="new" data-title="बेलिज" data-language-autonym="नेपाल भाषा" data-language-local-name="Newari" class="interlanguage-link-target">नेपाल भाषा</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%99%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA" title="ベリーズ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ベリーズ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nap mw-list-item"><a href="https://nap.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Neapolitan" lang="nap" hreflang="nap" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Napulitano" data-language-local-name="Neapolitan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Napulitano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7" title="Белиз – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title="Белиз" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target">Нохчийн</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nordfriisk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pih mw-list-item"><a href="https://pih.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beles" title="Beles – Norfuk / Pitkern" lang="pih" hreflang="pih" data-title="Beles" data-language-autonym="Norfuk / Pitkern" data-language-local-name="Norfuk / Pitkern" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norfuk / Pitkern</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk nynorsk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nov mw-list-item"><a href="https://nov.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beliz" title="Beliz – Novial" lang="nov" hreflang="nov" data-title="Beliz" data-language-autonym="Novial" data-language-local-name="Novial" class="interlanguage-link-target">Novial</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Occitan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mhr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mhr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7" title="Белиз – Eastern Mari" lang="mhr" hreflang="mhr" data-title="Белиз" data-language-autonym="Олык марий" data-language-local-name="Eastern Mari" class="interlanguage-link-target">Олык марий</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-or mw-list-item"><a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%B2%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%9C" title="ବେଲିଜ – Odia" lang="or" hreflang="or" data-title="ବେଲିଜ" data-language-autonym="ଓଡ଼ିଆ" data-language-local-name="Odia" class="interlanguage-link-target">ଓଡ଼ିଆ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-om mw-list-item"><a href="https://om.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beliiz" title="Beliiz – Oromo" lang="om" hreflang="om" data-title="Beliiz" data-language-autonym="Oromoo" data-language-local-name="Oromo" class="interlanguage-link-target">Oromoo</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beliz" title="Beliz – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Beliz" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%AC%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%B2%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%9C%E0%A8%BC" title="ਬੇਲੀਜ਼ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਬੇਲੀਜ਼" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target">ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pi mw-list-item"><a href="https://pi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%9C" title="बेलीज – Pali" lang="pi" hreflang="pi" data-title="बेलीज" data-language-autonym="पालि" data-language-local-name="Pali" class="interlanguage-link-target">पालि</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ami mw-list-item"><a href="https://ami.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Amis" lang="ami" hreflang="ami" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Pangcah" data-language-local-name="Amis" class="interlanguage-link-target">Pangcah</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B2" title="بیلیز – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="بیلیز" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target">پنجابی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pap mw-list-item"><a href="https://pap.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Papiamento" lang="pap" hreflang="pap" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Papiamentu" data-language-local-name="Papiamento" class="interlanguage-link-target">Papiamentu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%90%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B2" title="بېليز – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="بېليز" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target">پښتو</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jam mw-list-item"><a href="https://jam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biliiz" title="Biliiz – Jamaican Creole English" lang="jam" hreflang="jam" data-title="Biliiz" data-language-autonym="Patois" data-language-local-name="Jamaican Creole English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Patois</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pcd mw-list-item"><a href="https://pcd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Picard" lang="pcd" hreflang="pcd" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Picard" data-language-local-name="Picard" class="interlanguage-link-target">Picard</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pms mw-list-item"><a href="https://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Piedmontese" lang="pms" hreflang="pms" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Piemontèis" data-language-local-name="Piedmontese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Piemontèis</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Low German" lang="nds" hreflang="nds" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Plattdüütsch" data-language-local-name="Low German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Plattdüütsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kaa mw-list-item"><a href="https://kaa.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beliz" title="Beliz – Kara-Kalpak" lang="kaa" hreflang="kaa" data-title="Beliz" data-language-autonym="Qaraqalpaqsha" data-language-local-name="Kara-Kalpak" class="interlanguage-link-target">Qaraqalpaqsha</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-crh mw-list-item"><a href="https://crh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beliz" title="Beliz – Crimean Tatar" lang="crh" hreflang="crh" data-title="Beliz" data-language-autonym="Qırımtatarca" data-language-local-name="Crimean Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target">Qırımtatarca</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Română</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rm mw-list-item"><a href="https://rm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Romansh" lang="rm" hreflang="rm" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Rumantsch" data-language-local-name="Romansh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Rumantsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilis" title="Wilis – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="Wilis" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target">Runa Simi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rue mw-list-item"><a href="https://rue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%B7" title="Беліз – Rusyn" lang="rue" hreflang="rue" data-title="Беліз" data-language-autonym="Русиньскый" data-language-local-name="Rusyn" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русиньскый</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7" title="Белиз – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Белиз" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sah mw-list-item"><a href="https://sah.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7" title="Белиз – Yakut" lang="sah" hreflang="sah" data-title="Белиз" data-language-autonym="Саха тыла" data-language-local-name="Yakut" class="interlanguage-link-target">Саха тыла</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szy mw-list-item"><a href="https://szy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Sakizaya" lang="szy" hreflang="szy" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Sakizaya" data-language-local-name="Sakizaya" class="interlanguage-link-target">Sakizaya</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sm mw-list-item"><a href="https://sm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelisi" title="Pelisi – Samoan" lang="sm" hreflang="sm" data-title="Pelisi" data-language-autonym="Gagana Samoa" data-language-local-name="Samoan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gagana Samoa</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sa mw-list-item"><a href="https://sa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%9C" title="बेलीज – Sanskrit" lang="sa" hreflang="sa" data-title="बेलीज" data-language-autonym="संस्कृतम्" data-language-local-name="Sanskrit" class="interlanguage-link-target">संस्कृतम्</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sat mw-list-item"><a href="https://sat.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B1%B5%E1%B1%AE%E1%B1%B9%E1%B1%9E%E1%B1%A4%E1%B1%A1%E1%B1%BD" title="ᱵᱮᱹᱞᱤᱡᱽ – Santali" lang="sat" hreflang="sat" data-title="ᱵᱮᱹᱞᱤᱡᱽ" data-language-autonym="ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ" data-language-local-name="Santali" class="interlanguage-link-target">ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sc mw-list-item"><a href="https://sc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Sardinian" lang="sc" hreflang="sc" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Sardu" data-language-local-name="Sardinian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Sardu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target">Scots</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-trv mw-list-item"><a href="https://trv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Taroko" lang="trv" hreflang="trv" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Seediq" data-language-local-name="Taroko" class="interlanguage-link-target">Seediq</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-stq mw-list-item"><a href="https://stq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Saterland Frisian" lang="stq" hreflang="stq" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Seeltersk" data-language-local-name="Saterland Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Seeltersk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beliza" title="Beliza – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Beliza" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Shqip</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belizi" title="Belizi – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="Belizi" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Sicilianu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a href="https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B6%B6%E0%B7%99%E0%B6%BD%E0%B7%93%E0%B7%83%E0%B7%8A" title="බෙලීස් – Sinhala" lang="si" hreflang="si" data-title="බෙලීස්" data-language-autonym="සිංහල" data-language-local-name="Sinhala" class="interlanguage-link-target">සිංහල</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Simple English</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sd mw-list-item"><a href="https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B2" title="بيليز – Sindhi" lang="sd" hreflang="sd" data-title="بيليز" data-language-autonym="سنڌي" data-language-local-name="Sindhi" class="interlanguage-link-target">سنڌي</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ss mw-list-item"><a href="https://ss.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBhelizi" title="IBhelizi – Swati" lang="ss" hreflang="ss" data-title="IBhelizi" data-language-autonym="SiSwati" data-language-local-name="Swati" class="interlanguage-link-target">SiSwati</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenčina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenščina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szl mw-list-item"><a href="https://szl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Silesian" lang="szl" hreflang="szl" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Ślůnski" data-language-local-name="Silesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ślůnski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-so mw-list-item"><a href="https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belise" title="Belise – Somali" lang="so" hreflang="so" data-title="Belise" data-language-autonym="Soomaaliga" data-language-local-name="Somali" class="interlanguage-link-target">Soomaaliga</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%95%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B2" title="بەلیز – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="بەلیز" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target">کوردی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B5" title="Белизе – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Белизе" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Српски / srpski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-su mw-list-item"><a href="https://su.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9lis" title="Bélis – Sundanese" lang="su" hreflang="su" data-title="Bélis" data-language-autonym="Sunda" data-language-local-name="Sundanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Sunda</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi badge-Q17559452 badge-recommendedarticle mw-list-item" title="recommended article"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Suomi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Svenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl mw-list-item"><a href="https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belise" title="Belise – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="Belise" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target">Tagalog</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%80%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%81" title="பெலீசு – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="பெலீசு" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target">தமிழ்</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-shi mw-list-item"><a href="https://shi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beliz" title="Beliz – Tachelhit" lang="shi" hreflang="shi" data-title="Beliz" data-language-autonym="Taclḥit" data-language-local-name="Tachelhit" class="interlanguage-link-target">Taclḥit</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kab mw-list-item"><a href="https://kab.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Kabyle" lang="kab" hreflang="kab" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Taqbaylit" data-language-local-name="Kabyle" class="interlanguage-link-target">Taqbaylit</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7" title="Белиз – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="Белиз" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target">Татарча / tatarça</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-shn mw-list-item"><a href="https://shn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%99%E1%80%AD%E1%80%B0%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA%E1%80%B8%E1%80%95%E1%82%84%E1%82%87%E1%80%9C%E1%80%AD%E1%80%90%E1%80%BA%E1%82%88" title="မိူင်းပႄႇလိတ်ႈ – Shan" lang="shn" hreflang="shn" data-title="မိူင်းပႄႇလိတ်ႈ" data-language-autonym="ၽႃႇသႃႇတႆး " data-language-local-name="Shan" class="interlanguage-link-target">ၽႃႇသႃႇတႆး </a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tay mw-list-item"><a href="https://tay.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Tayal" lang="tay" hreflang="tay" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Tayal" data-language-local-name="Tayal" class="interlanguage-link-target">Tayal</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-te mw-list-item"><a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AC%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B2%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%8D" title="బెలిజ్ – Telugu" lang="te" hreflang="te" data-title="బెలిజ్" data-language-autonym="తెలుగు" data-language-local-name="Telugu" class="interlanguage-link-target">తెలుగు</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tet mw-list-item"><a href="https://tet.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Tetum" lang="tet" hreflang="tet" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Tetun" data-language-local-name="Tetum" class="interlanguage-link-target">Tetun</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%9B%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B0%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%A8%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%B5%E0%B8%8B" title="ประเทศเบลีซ – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="ประเทศเบลีซ" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target">ไทย</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tg mw-list-item"><a href="https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7" title="Белиз – Tajik" lang="tg" hreflang="tg" data-title="Белиз" data-language-autonym="Тоҷикӣ" data-language-local-name="Tajik" class="interlanguage-link-target">Тоҷикӣ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-to mw-list-item"><a href="https://to.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelise" title="Pelise – Tongan" lang="to" hreflang="to" data-title="Pelise" data-language-autonym="Lea faka-Tonga" data-language-local-name="Tongan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lea faka-Tonga</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-chr mw-list-item"><a href="https://chr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8F%87%E1%8E%B5%E1%8F%8D" title="ᏇᎵᏍ – Cherokee" lang="chr" hreflang="chr" data-title="ᏇᎵᏍ" data-language-autonym="ᏣᎳᎩ" data-language-local-name="Cherokee" class="interlanguage-link-target">ᏣᎳᎩ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Türkçe</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tk mw-list-item"><a href="https://tk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beliz" title="Beliz – Turkmen" lang="tk" hreflang="tk" data-title="Beliz" data-language-autonym="Türkmençe" data-language-local-name="Turkmen" class="interlanguage-link-target">Türkmençe</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-udm mw-list-item"><a href="https://udm.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7" title="Белиз – Udmurt" lang="udm" hreflang="udm" data-title="Белиз" data-language-autonym="Удмурт" data-language-local-name="Udmurt" class="interlanguage-link-target">Удмурт</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%B7" title="Беліз – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Беліз" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Українська</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B2" title="بیلیز – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="بیلیز" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target">اردو</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ug mw-list-item"><a href="https://ug.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%90%D9%84%D9%89%D8%B2" title="بېلىز – Uyghur" lang="ug" hreflang="ug" data-title="بېلىز" data-language-autonym="ئۇيغۇرچە / Uyghurche" data-language-local-name="Uyghur" class="interlanguage-link-target">ئۇيغۇرچە / Uyghurche</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-za mw-list-item"><a href="https://za.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Zhuang" lang="za" hreflang="za" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Vahcuengh" data-language-local-name="Zhuang" class="interlanguage-link-target">Vahcuengh</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vec mw-list-item"><a href="https://vec.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be%C5%82ize" title="Bełize – Venetian" lang="vec" hreflang="vec" data-title="Bełize" data-language-autonym="Vèneto" data-language-local-name="Venetian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Vèneto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vep mw-list-item"><a href="https://vep.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beliz" title="Beliz – Veps" lang="vep" hreflang="vep" data-title="Beliz" data-language-autonym="Vepsän kel’" data-language-local-name="Veps" class="interlanguage-link-target">Vepsän kel’</a></li><li 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href="https://zh-classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BC%AF%E5%88%A9%E8%8C%B2" title="伯利茲 – Literary Chinese" lang="lzh" hreflang="lzh" data-title="伯利茲" data-language-autonym="文言" data-language-local-name="Literary Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target">文言</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-war mw-list-item"><a href="https://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" title="Belize – Waray" lang="war" hreflang="war" data-title="Belize" data-language-autonym="Winaray" data-language-local-name="Waray" class="interlanguage-link-target">Winaray</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wo mw-list-item"><a href="https://wo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beliis" title="Beliis – Wolof" lang="wo" hreflang="wo" data-title="Beliis" data-language-autonym="Wolof" data-language-local-name="Wolof" class="interlanguage-link-target">Wolof</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wuu mw-list-item"><a href="https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BC%AF%E5%88%A9%E5%85%B9" title="伯利兹 – Wu" lang="wuu" 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‪(zh-cn)‬" data-dir="ltr" /><track src="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=timedtext&title=File%3AUnited_States_Navy_Band_-_God_Save_the_Queen.oga&lang=zh-hk&trackformat=vtt&origin=%2A" kind="subtitles" type="text/vtt" srclang="zh-Hant-HK" label="中文（香港） ‪(zh-hk)‬" data-dir="ltr" /><track src="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=timedtext&title=File%3AUnited_States_Navy_Band_-_God_Save_the_Queen.oga&lang=zh-tw&trackformat=vtt&origin=%2A" kind="subtitles" type="text/vtt" srclang="zh-Hant-TW" label="中文（臺灣） ‪(zh-tw)‬" data-dir="ltr" /></audio></div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div class="switcher-container"><div><a href="/wiki/File:BLZ_orthographic.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/BLZ_orthographic.svg/220px-BLZ_orthographic.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" 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English">English</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Vernacular_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Vernacular language">Vernacular language</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Belizean_Creole" title="Belizean Creole">Belizean Creole</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Regional and minority languages</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol 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dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Belizean_Spanish" title="Belizean Spanish">Spanish</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Mayan_languages" title="Mayan languages">Mayan</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Garifuna_language" title="Garifuna language">Garifuna</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Chinese_language" title="Chinese language">Chinese</a><a href="#cite_note-sib.org.bz-1">[1]</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Religion <div class="ib-country-religion"> (2022)<a href="#cite_note-PHCensus2022-2">[2]</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1116488514">.mw-parser-output .treeview ul{padding:0;margin:0}.mw-parser-output .treeview li{padding:0;margin:0;list-style-type:none;list-style-image:none}.mw-parser-output .treeview li li{background:url("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Treeview-grey-line.png")no-repeat 0 -2981px;padding-left:21px;text-indent:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .treeview li li:last-child{background-position:0 -5971px}.mw-parser-output .treeview li.emptyline>ul>.mw-empty-elt:first-child+.emptyline,.mw-parser-output .treeview li.emptyline>ul>li:first-child{background-position:0 9px}</style><div class="treeview"> <ul><li>61.9% <a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Belize" class="mw-redirect" title="Christianity in Belize">Christianity</a></li> <li>31.8% <a href="/wiki/Irreligion" title="Irreligion">no religion</a></li> <li>6.3% <a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Belize" title="Religion in Belize">other</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Demonym" title="Demonym">Demonym(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Belizeans" title="Belizeans">Belizean</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Belize" title="Politics of Belize">Government</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Unitary <a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_constitutional_monarchy" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliamentary constitutional monarchy">parliamentary constitutional monarchy</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <a href="/wiki/Monarchy_of_Belize" title="Monarchy of Belize">Monarch</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Charles_III" title="Charles III">Charles III</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <a href="/wiki/Governor-General_of_Belize" title="Governor-General of Belize">Governor-General</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Froyla_Tzalam" title="Froyla Tzalam">Froyla Tzalam</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Belize" class="mw-redirect" title="Prime Minister of Belize">Prime Minister</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Brice%C3%B1o" title="Johnny Briceño">Johnny Briceño</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Legislature</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(Belize)" title="National Assembly (Belize)">National Assembly</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• <a href="/wiki/Upper_house" title="Upper house">Upper house</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Senate_(Belize)" title="Senate (Belize)">Senate</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• <a href="/wiki/Lower_house" title="Lower house">Lower house</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/House_of_Representatives_(Belize)" title="House of Representatives (Belize)">House of Representatives</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><a href="/wiki/History_of_Belize" title="History of Belize">Independence</a> <div class="ib-country-sovereignty">from the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <a href="/wiki/History_of_Belize#Decolonization_and_the_border_dispute_with_Guatemala" title="History of Belize">Self-governance</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data">January 1964</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• Independence </div></th><td class="infobox-data">21 September 1981</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><a href="/wiki/Geography_of_Belize" title="Geography of Belize">Area </a></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">22,966 km2 (8,867 sq mi)<a href="#cite_note-CIAFactbookGeography2019-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-censusarea-4">[4]</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_area" title="List of countries and dependencies by area">147th</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• Water (%)</div></th><td class="infobox-data">0.8</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Belize" title="Demographics of Belize">Population</a></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• 2022 census</div></th><td class="infobox-data">397,483<a href="#cite_note-sib2024-5">[5]</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• Density</div></th><td class="infobox-data">17.31/km2 (44.8/sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Gross_domestic_product" title="Gross domestic product">GDP</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style>(<a href="/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity" title="Purchasing power parity">PPP</a>)</th><td class="infobox-data">2023 estimate</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> $5.032 billion<a href="#cite_note-IMFWEO.BZ-6">[6]</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)" title="List of countries by GDP (PPP)">180th</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• Per capita</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> $11,166<a href="#cite_note-IMFWEO.BZ-6">[6]</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita" title="List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita">123rd</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Gross_domestic_product" title="Gross domestic product">GDP</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488">(nominal)</th><td class="infobox-data">2023 estimate</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> $3.218 billion<a href="#cite_note-IMFWEO.BZ-6">[6]</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)" title="List of countries by GDP (nominal)">179th</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• Per capita</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> $7,141<a href="#cite_note-IMFWEO.BZ-6">[6]</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita" title="List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita">98th</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Gini_coefficient" title="Gini coefficient">Gini</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488">(2013)</th><td class="infobox-data">53.1<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239334494">@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output div:not(.notheme)>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output p>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output table:not(.notheme) .tmp-color{color:inherit!important}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output div:not(.notheme)>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output p>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output table:not(.notheme) .tmp-color{color:inherit!important}}</style>high inequality</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Human_Development_Index" title="Human Development Index">HDI</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488">(2022)</th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> 0.700<a href="#cite_note-UNHDR-8">[8]</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239334494">high (<a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index" title="List of countries by Human Development Index">118th</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Currency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Belize_dollar" title="Belize dollar">Belize dollar</a> ($) (<a href="/wiki/ISO_4217" title="ISO 4217">BZD</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Time zone</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" title="Coordinated Universal Time">UTC</a>−6 (<a href="/wiki/Central_Time_Zone" title="Central Time Zone">CST</a> (GMT−6)<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Left-_and_right-hand_traffic" title="Left- and right-hand traffic">Drives on</a></th><td class="infobox-data">right</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_Belize" title="Telephone numbers in Belize">Calling code</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/%2B501" class="mw-redirect" title="+501">+501</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ISO_3166" title="ISO 3166">ISO 3166 code</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/ISO_3166-2:BZ" title="ISO 3166-2:BZ">BZ</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain" title="Country code top-level domain">Internet TLD</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/.bz" title=".bz">.bz</a></td></tr></tbody></table> Belize (<a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/bɪˈliːz, bɛ-/</a> <span data-nosnippet="" id="ooui-php-1" class="ext-phonos-PhonosButton noexcerpt ext-phonos-PhonosButton-emptylabel oo-ui-widget oo-ui-widget-enabled oo-ui-buttonElement oo-ui-buttonElement-frameless oo-ui-iconElement oo-ui-buttonWidget" data-ooui="{"_":"mw.Phonos.PhonosButton","href":"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/transcoded\/c\/c5\/En-us-Belize.ogg\/En-us-Belize.ogg.mp3","rel":["nofollow"],"framed":false,"icon":"volumeUp","data":{"ipa":"","text":"","lang":"en","wikibase":"","file":"En-us-Belize.ogg"},"classes":["ext-phonos-PhonosButton","noexcerpt","ext-phonos-PhonosButton-emptylabel"]}"><a role="button" tabindex="0" href="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c5/En-us-Belize.ogg/En-us-Belize.ogg.mp3" rel="nofollow" aria-label="Play audio" title="Play audio" class="oo-ui-buttonElement-button"></a><a href="/wiki/File:En-us-Belize.ogg" title="File:En-us-Belize.ogg">ⓘ</a>, <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key">bih-LEEZ, beh-</a>; <a href="/wiki/Belize_Kriol_English_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Belize Kriol English language">Belize Kriol English</a>: Bileez) is a country on the north-eastern coast of <a href="/wiki/Central_America" title="Central America">Central America</a>. It is bordered by <a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a> to the north, the <a href="/wiki/Caribbean_Sea" title="Caribbean Sea">Caribbean Sea</a> to the east, and <a href="/wiki/Guatemala" title="Guatemala">Guatemala</a> to the west and south. It also shares a water boundary with <a href="/wiki/Honduras" title="Honduras">Honduras</a> to the southeast. Belize is a member of the <a href="/wiki/Caribbean_Community" title="Caribbean Community">Caribbean Community</a> (CARICOM), and is considered part of the <a href="/wiki/Caribbean" title="Caribbean">Caribbean</a> region and the historical <a href="/wiki/British_West_Indies" title="British West Indies">British West Indies</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Maya_civilization" title="Maya civilization">Maya civilization</a> spread into the area of Belize between 1500 BC and AD 300 and flourished until about 1200.<a href="#cite_note-cs-10">[10]</a> European contact began in 1502–04 when <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Columbus" title="Christopher Columbus">Christopher Columbus</a> sailed along the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_Honduras" title="Gulf of Honduras">Gulf of Honduras</a>.<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a> European exploration was begun by English settlers in 1638. <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Empire" title="Spanish Empire">Spain</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain" title="Kingdom of Great Britain">Britain</a> both laid claim to the land until Britain defeated the Spanish in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_St._George%27s_Caye" title="Battle of St. George's Caye">Battle of St. George's Caye</a> (1798).<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> It became <a href="/wiki/British_Honduras" title="British Honduras">a British colony</a> in 1840, and a <a href="/wiki/Crown_colony" title="Crown colony">Crown colony</a> in 1862. Belize achieved its independence from the United Kingdom on 21 September 1981.<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> It is the only mainland Central American country which is a <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_realm" title="Commonwealth realm">Commonwealth realm</a>, with <a href="/wiki/King_Charles_III" class="mw-redirect" title="King Charles III">King Charles III</a> as <a href="/wiki/Monarchy_of_Belize" title="Monarchy of Belize">its monarch</a> and <a href="/wiki/Head_of_state" title="Head of state">head of state</a>, represented by a <a href="/wiki/Governor-General_of_Belize" title="Governor-General of Belize">governor-general</a>.<a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a> Belize's abundance of terrestrial and marine plants and animals and its diversity of ecosystems, including extensive <a href="/wiki/Coral_reef" title="Coral reef">coral reefs</a>, give it a key place in the globally significant <a href="/wiki/Mesoamerican_Biological_Corridor" title="Mesoamerican Biological Corridor">Mesoamerican Biological Corridor</a>.<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a> It is considered a <a href="/wiki/Central_America" title="Central America">Central American</a> and <a href="/wiki/Caribbean" title="Caribbean">Caribbean</a> nation with strong ties to both the American and Caribbean regions.<a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a> It has an area of 22,970 square kilometres (8,867 sq mi) and a population of 397,483 (2022).<a href="#cite_note-est-17">[17]</a> Its mainland is about 290 km (180 mi) long and 110 km (68 mi) wide. It is the least populated and <a href="/wiki/Population_density" title="Population density">least densely populated country</a> in Central America. Its population growth rate of 1.87% per year (2018 estimate) is the second-highest in the region and one of the <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_growth_rate" title="List of countries by population growth rate">highest in the Western Hemisphere</a>. Its <a href="/wiki/Capital_city" title="Capital city">capital</a> is <a href="/wiki/Belmopan" title="Belmopan">Belmopan</a>, and its largest city is the namesake city of <a href="/wiki/Belize_City" title="Belize City">Belize City</a>. The country has a diverse society composed of many cultures and languages. It is the only Central American country where English is the official language, while <a href="/wiki/Belizean_Creole" title="Belizean Creole">Belizean Creole</a> is the most widely spoken dialect. <a href="/wiki/Belizean_Spanish" title="Belizean Spanish">Spanish</a> is the second-most-commonly-spoken language, followed by the <a href="/wiki/Mayan_languages" title="Mayan languages">Mayan languages</a>, <a href="/wiki/German_dialects" title="German dialects">German dialects</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Garifuna_language" title="Garifuna language">Garifuna</a>. Over half the population is <a href="/wiki/Multilingual" class="mw-redirect" title="Multilingual">multilingual</a> due to the diverse linguistic backgrounds of the population. It is known for its <a href="/wiki/September_Celebrations" title="September Celebrations">September Celebrations</a> and <a href="/wiki/Punta" title="Punta">punta music</a>.<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a><a href="#cite_note-ryan-19">[19]</a> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology">edit</a>]</div> The earliest known record of the name "Belize" appears in the journal of the <a href="/wiki/Dominican_Order" title="Dominican Order">Dominican</a> priest Fray José Delgado, dating to 1677.<a href="#cite_note-Twigg-20">[20]</a> Delgado recorded the names of three major rivers that he crossed while travelling north along the Caribbean coast: Rio Soyte, Rio Kibum, and Rio Balis. The names of these waterways, which correspond to the <a href="/wiki/Sittee_River" title="Sittee River">Sittee River</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sibun_River" title="Sibun River">Sibun River</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Belize_River" title="Belize River">Belize River</a>, were provided to Delgado by his translator.<a href="#cite_note-Twigg-20">[20]</a> It has been proposed that Delgado's "Balis" was actually the Mayan word belix (or beliz), meaning "muddy water",<a href="#cite_note-Twigg-20">[20]</a> although no such Mayan word actually exists.<a href="#cite_note-Restall-21">[21]</a><a href="#cite_note-24">[a]</a> More recently, it has been proposed that the name comes from the Mayan phrase "bel Itza", meaning "the way to <a href="/wiki/Peten_Itza_kingdom" title="Peten Itza kingdom">Itza</a>".<a href="#cite_note-Restall-21">[21]</a> In the 1820s, the Creole elite of Belize invented the legend that the toponym Belize derived from the Spanish pronunciation of the name of a Scottish <a href="/wiki/Buccaneer" title="Buccaneer">buccaneer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peter_Wallace_(buccaneer)" title="Peter Wallace (buccaneer)">Peter Wallace</a>, who established a settlement at the mouth of the Belize River in 1638.<a href="#cite_note-brit1893-25">[24]</a> There is no proof that buccaneers settled in this area and the very existence of Wallace is considered a myth.<a href="#cite_note-Twigg-20">[20]</a><a href="#cite_note-Restall-21">[21]</a> Writers and historians have suggested several other possible etymologies, including postulated French and African origins.<a href="#cite_note-Twigg-20">[20]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/History_of_Belize" title="History of Belize">History of Belize</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_history">Early history</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Early history">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mayamap.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Mayamap.png/220px-Mayamap.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="162" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Mayamap.png/330px-Mayamap.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Mayamap.png/440px-Mayamap.png 2x" data-file-width="1074" data-file-height="789" /></a><figcaption>Extent of the Maya civilization</figcaption></figure> The <a href="/wiki/Maya_civilization" title="Maya civilization">Maya civilization</a> emerged at least three millennia ago in the lowland area of the <a href="/wiki/Yucat%C3%A1n_Peninsula" title="Yucatán Peninsula">Yucatán Peninsula</a> and the highlands to the south, in the area of present-day southeastern Mexico, Belize, <a href="/wiki/Guatemala" title="Guatemala">Guatemala</a>, and western <a href="/wiki/Honduras" title="Honduras">Honduras</a>. Many aspects of this culture persist in the area, despite nearly 500 years of European domination. Prior to about 2500 BC, some <a href="/wiki/Hunter-gatherer" title="Hunter-gatherer">hunting and foraging</a> bands settled in small farming villages; they domesticated crops such as corn, beans, <a href="/wiki/Cucurbita" title="Cucurbita">squash</a>, and chili peppers. A profusion of languages and subcultures developed within the Maya core culture. Between about 2500 BC and 250 AD, the basic institutions of Maya civilization emerged.<a href="#cite_note-cs-10">[10]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Maya_civilization">Maya civilization</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Maya civilization">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Pre-Columbian_Belize" title="Pre-Columbian Belize">Pre-Columbian Belize</a></div> The <a href="/wiki/Maya_civilization" title="Maya civilization">Maya civilization</a> spread across the territory of present-day Belize around 1500 BC, and flourished until around 900 AD. The recorded history of the middle and southern regions focuses on <a href="/wiki/Caracol" title="Caracol">Caracol</a>, an urban political centre that may have supported over 140,000 people.<a href="#cite_note-26">[25]</a><a href="#cite_note-27">[26]</a> North of the <a href="/wiki/Maya_Mountains" title="Maya Mountains">Maya Mountains</a>, the most important political centre was <a href="/wiki/Lamanai" title="Lamanai">Lamanai</a>.<a href="#cite_note-28">[27]</a> In the late <a href="/wiki/Mesoamerican_chronology" title="Mesoamerican chronology">Classic Era</a> of Maya Civilization (600–1000 AD), an estimated 400,000 to 1,000,000 people inhabited the area of present-day Belize.<a href="#cite_note-cs-10">[10]</a><a href="#cite_note-29">[28]</a> When Spanish explorers arrived in the 16th century, the area of present-day Belize included at least three distinct Maya territories:<a href="#cite_note-30">[29]</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chetumal_Province" title="Chetumal Province">Chetumal province</a>, which encompassed the area around <a href="/wiki/Corozal_Bay" title="Corozal Bay">Corozal Bay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dzuluinicob" title="Dzuluinicob">Dzuluinicob</a> province, which encompassed the area between the lower <a href="/wiki/New_River_(Belize)" title="New River (Belize)">New River</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Sibun_River" title="Sibun River">Sibun River</a>, west to <a href="/wiki/Tipu,_Belize" title="Tipu, Belize">Tipu</a><a href="#cite_note-31">[30]</a><a href="#cite_note-32">[31]</a></li> <li>a southern territory controlled by the <a href="/wiki/Manche_Ch%27ol" class="mw-redirect" title="Manche Ch'ol">Manche Ch'ol</a> Maya, encompassing the area between the <a href="/wiki/Monkey_River" title="Monkey River">Monkey River</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Sarstoon_River" title="Sarstoon River">Sarstoon River</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_colonial_period_(1506–1862)">Early colonial period (1506–1862)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Early colonial period (1506–1862)">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/History_of_Belize_(1506%E2%80%931862)" title="History of Belize (1506–1862)">History of Belize (1506–1862)</a> and <a href="/wiki/Colony_of_Jamaica" title="Colony of Jamaica">Colony of Jamaica</a></div> Spanish <a href="/wiki/Conquistador" title="Conquistador">conquistadors</a> explored the land and declared it part of the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Empire" title="Spanish Empire">Spanish Empire</a>, but they failed to settle the territory because of its lack of resources and the tribes of the Yucatán defending their land. English pirates sporadically visited the coast of what is now Belize, seeking a sheltered region from which they could attack Spanish ships (see <a href="/wiki/English_settlement_in_Belize" class="mw-redirect" title="English settlement in Belize">English settlement in Belize</a>) and cut <a href="/wiki/Logwood" class="mw-redirect" title="Logwood">logwood</a> (Haematoxylum campechianum) trees. The first British permanent settlement was founded around 1716, in what became the <a href="/wiki/Belize_District" title="Belize District">Belize District</a>,<a href="#cite_note-Johnson2003-33">[32]</a> and during the 18th century, established a system using <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade" title="Atlantic slave trade">enslaved Africans</a> to cut logwood trees. This yielded a valuable fixing agent for clothing dyes,<a href="#cite_note-34">[33]</a> and was one of the first ways to achieve a <a href="/wiki/Natural_dye#The_rise_of_formal_black" title="Natural dye">fast black</a> before the advent of artificial dyes. The Spanish granted the British settlers the right to occupy the area and cut logwood in exchange for their help suppressing piracy.<a href="#cite_note-cs-10">[10]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:St._George%27s_Cay_Day_Official_Holiday.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/St._George%27s_Cay_Day_Official_Holiday.jpg/220px-St._George%27s_Cay_Day_Official_Holiday.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/St._George%27s_Cay_Day_Official_Holiday.jpg/330px-St._George%27s_Cay_Day_Official_Holiday.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/St._George%27s_Cay_Day_Official_Holiday.jpg/440px-St._George%27s_Cay_Day_Official_Holiday.jpg 2x" data-file-width="885" data-file-height="682" /></a><figcaption>An excerpt from the 1898 Gazette that declared 10 September an official holiday, <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_St._George%27s_Caye_Day" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of St. George's Caye Day">Battle of St. George's Caye Day</a></figcaption></figure> The British government did not recognize the settlement as a colony for fear of provoking a <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Empire" title="Spanish Empire">Spanish</a> attack. This delay in government oversight enabled the settlers to establish their own laws and forms of government. During this period, a few settlers gained control of the local legislature, known as the Public Meeting, as well as of most of the settlement's land and timber. The British did not appoint their first superintendent over the Belize area until 1786. Throughout the 18th century, the Spanish attacked Belize every time war broke out with Britain. The <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_St._George%27s_Caye" title="Battle of St. George's Caye">Battle of St. George's Caye</a> was the last of such military engagements, in 1798, between a Spanish fleet and a force of <a href="/wiki/Baymen" title="Baymen">Baymen</a> and their slaves. From 3 to 5 September, the Spaniards tried to force their way through Montego Caye shoal, but were blocked by defenders. Spain's last attempt occurred on 10 September, when the Baymen repelled the Spanish fleet in a short engagement with no known casualties on either side. The anniversary of the battle has been declared <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_St._George%27s_Caye_Day" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of St. George's Caye Day">a national holiday</a> in Belize and is celebrated to commemorate the "first Belizeans" and the defence of their territory taken from the Spanish empire.<a href="#cite_note-35">[34]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="As_part_of_the_British_Empire_(1862–1981)">As part of the British Empire (1862–1981)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: As part of the British Empire (1862–1981)">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/British_Honduras" title="British Honduras">British Honduras</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_British_Honduras_(1919%E2%80%931981).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Flag_of_British_Honduras_%281919%E2%80%931981%29.svg/220px-Flag_of_British_Honduras_%281919%E2%80%931981%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="110" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Flag_of_British_Honduras_%281919%E2%80%931981%29.svg/330px-Flag_of_British_Honduras_%281919%E2%80%931981%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Flag_of_British_Honduras_%281919%E2%80%931981%29.svg/440px-Flag_of_British_Honduras_%281919%E2%80%931981%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /></a><figcaption>Colonial flag of British Honduras, 1919–1981</figcaption></figure> In the early 19th century, the British sought to reform the settlers, threatening to suspend the Public Meeting unless it observed the government's instructions to eliminate slavery outright. After a generation of wrangling, slavery was <a href="/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833" title="Slavery Abolition Act 1833">abolished</a> in the <a href="/wiki/British_Empire" title="British Empire">British Empire</a> in 1833.<a href="#cite_note-36">[35]</a> As a result of their enslaved Africans' abilities in the work of <a href="/wiki/Mahogany" title="Mahogany">mahogany</a> extraction, owners in <a href="/wiki/British_Honduras" title="British Honduras">British Honduras</a> were compensated at £53.69 per enslaved African on average, the highest amount paid in any British territory. This was a form of reparation that was not given to the enslaved Africans at the time, nor since.<a href="#cite_note-Johnson2003-33">[32]</a> The end of slavery did little to change the formerly enslaved Africans' working conditions if they stayed at their trade. A series of institutions restricted the ability of emancipated African individuals to buy land, in a debt-peonage system. Former "extra special" mahogany or logwood cutters undergirded the early ascription of the capacities (and consequently the limitations) of people of African descent in the colony. Because a small elite controlled the settlement's land and commerce, formerly enslaved Africans had little choice but to continue to work in timber cutting.<a href="#cite_note-Johnson2003-33">[32]</a> In 1836, after the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_American_wars_of_independence" title="Spanish American wars of independence">emancipation of Central America from Spanish rule</a>, the British claimed the right to administer the region. In 1862, the United Kingdom formally declared it a <a href="/wiki/British_Crown_Colony" class="mw-redirect" title="British Crown Colony">British Crown Colony</a>, subordinate to Jamaica, and named it British Honduras.<a href="#cite_note-37">[36]</a> Since 1854, the richest inhabitants elected an assembly of notables by censal vote, which was replaced by a legislative council appointed by the British government.<a href="#cite_note-clio-38">[37]</a> As a colony, Belize began to attract British investors. Among the British firms that dominated the colony in the late 19th century was the Belize Estate and Produce Company, which eventually acquired half of all privately held land and eventually eliminated <a href="/wiki/Peonage" class="mw-redirect" title="Peonage">peonage</a>. Belize Estate's influence accounts in part for the colony's reliance on the mahogany trade throughout the rest of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. The <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression">Great Depression</a> of the 1930s caused a near-collapse of the colony's economy as British demand for timber plummeted. The effects of widespread unemployment were worsened by a <a href="/wiki/1931_Belize_hurricane" class="mw-redirect" title="1931 Belize hurricane">devastating hurricane</a> that struck the colony in 1931. Perceptions of the government's relief effort as inadequate were aggravated by its refusal to legalize labour unions or introduce a minimum wage. Economic conditions improved during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, as many Belizean men entered the armed forces or otherwise contributed to the war effort. <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:British_Honduras_1962_Hurricane_Hattie_stamp.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/British_Honduras_1962_Hurricane_Hattie_stamp.jpg/220px-British_Honduras_1962_Hurricane_Hattie_stamp.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="148" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/British_Honduras_1962_Hurricane_Hattie_stamp.jpg/330px-British_Honduras_1962_Hurricane_Hattie_stamp.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/British_Honduras_1962_Hurricane_Hattie_stamp.jpg/440px-British_Honduras_1962_Hurricane_Hattie_stamp.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="859" /></a><figcaption>A British Honduras postage stamp overprinted in 1962 to mark <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Hattie" title="Hurricane Hattie">Hurricane Hattie</a></figcaption></figure> Following the war, the colony's economy stagnated. Britain's decision to <a href="/wiki/Devaluation" title="Devaluation">devalue</a> the British Honduras dollar in 1949 worsened economic conditions and led to the creation of the People's Committee, which demanded independence. The People's Committee's successor, the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_United_Party" title="People's United Party">People's United Party</a> (PUP), sought constitutional reforms that expanded voting rights to all adults. The first election under <a href="/wiki/Universal_suffrage" title="Universal suffrage">universal suffrage</a> was held <a href="/wiki/British_Honduras_general_election,_1954" class="mw-redirect" title="British Honduras general election, 1954">in 1954</a> and was decisively won by the PUP, beginning a three-decade period in which the PUP dominated the country's politics. Pro-independence activist <a href="/wiki/George_Cadle_Price" title="George Cadle Price">George Cadle Price</a> became PUP's leader in 1956 and the effective head of government in 1961, a post he would hold under various titles until 1984. Progress toward independence was hampered by a <a href="/wiki/Belizean%E2%80%93Guatemalan_territorial_dispute" title="Belizean–Guatemalan territorial dispute">Guatemalan claim to sovereignty over Belizean territory</a>. In 1964 Britain granted British Honduras self-government under a new constitution. On 1 June 1973, British Honduras was officially renamed Belize.<a href="#cite_note-caricom-39">[38]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Independent_Belize_(since_1981)">Independent Belize (since 1981)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Independent Belize (since 1981)">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Monarchy_of_Belize" title="Monarchy of Belize">Monarchy of Belize</a></div> Belize was granted independence on 21 September 1981. <a href="/wiki/Guatemala" title="Guatemala">Guatemala</a> refused to recognize the new nation because of its longstanding territorial dispute, claiming that Belize belonged to Guatemala. After independence about 1,500 British troops remained in Belize to deter any possible Guatemalan incursions.<a href="#cite_note-40">[39]</a> With <a href="/wiki/George_Cadle_Price" title="George Cadle Price">George Cadle Price</a> at the helm, the PUP won all national elections <a href="/wiki/Belizean_general_election,_1984" class="mw-redirect" title="Belizean general election, 1984">until 1984</a>. In that election, the first national election after independence, the PUP was defeated by the <a href="/wiki/United_Democratic_Party_(Belize)" title="United Democratic Party (Belize)">United Democratic Party</a> (UDP). UDP leader <a href="/wiki/Manuel_Esquivel" title="Manuel Esquivel">Manuel Esquivel</a> replaced Price as prime minister, with Price himself unexpectedly losing his own <a href="/wiki/House_of_Representatives_(Belize)" title="House of Representatives (Belize)">House</a> seat to a UDP challenger. The PUP under Price returned to power after elections <a href="/wiki/Belizean_general_election,_1989" class="mw-redirect" title="Belizean general election, 1989">in 1989</a>. The following year the United Kingdom announced that it would end its military involvement in Belize, and the RAF Harrier detachment was withdrawn the same year, having remained stationed in the country continuously since its deployment had become permanent there in 1980. British soldiers were withdrawn in 1994, but the United Kingdom left behind a military training unit to assist with the newly created <a href="/wiki/Belize_Defence_Force" title="Belize Defence Force">Belize Defence Force</a>. The UDP regained power in the <a href="/wiki/Belizean_general_election,_1993" class="mw-redirect" title="Belizean general election, 1993">1993 national election</a>, and Esquivel became prime minister for a second time. Soon afterwards, Esquivel announced the suspension of a pact reached with Guatemala during Price's tenure, claiming Price had made too many concessions to gain Guatemalan recognition. The pact may have curtailed the 130-year-old border dispute between the two countries. Border tensions continued into the early 2000s, although the two countries cooperated in other areas. In 1996, the <a href="/wiki/Belize_Barrier_Reef" title="Belize Barrier Reef">Belize Barrier Reef</a>, one of the Western Hemisphere's most pristine ecosystems, was designated as a <a href="/wiki/UNESCO_World_Heritage_Site" class="mw-redirect" title="UNESCO World Heritage Site">UNESCO World Heritage Site</a>. The PUP won a landslide victory in the 1998 national elections, and PUP leader <a href="/wiki/Said_Musa" title="Said Musa">Said Musa</a> was sworn in as prime minister. In the 2003 elections the PUP maintained its majority, and Musa continued as prime minister. He pledged to improve conditions in the underdeveloped and largely inaccessible southern part of Belize. In 2005, Belize was the site of <a href="/wiki/2005_Belize_unrest" title="2005 Belize unrest">unrest</a> caused by discontent with the PUP government, including tax increases in the national budget. On 8 February 2008, <a href="/wiki/Dean_Barrow" title="Dean Barrow">Dean Barrow</a> was sworn in as prime minister after his <a href="/wiki/United_Democratic_Party_(Belize)" title="United Democratic Party (Belize)">UDP</a> won <a href="/wiki/Belizean_general_election,_2008" class="mw-redirect" title="Belizean general election, 2008">a landslide victory</a> in general elections. Barrow and the UDP were re-elected <a href="/wiki/Belizean_general_and_local_elections,_2012" class="mw-redirect" title="Belizean general and local elections, 2012">in 2012</a> with a considerably smaller majority. Barrow led the UDP to a third consecutive general election victory in November 2015, increasing the party's number of seats from 17 to 19. He said the election would be his last as party leader and preparations are under way for the party to elect his successor. On 11 November 2020, the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_United_Party" title="People's United Party">People's United Party</a> (PUP), led by <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Brice%C3%B1o" title="Johnny Briceño">Johnny Briceño</a>, defeated the <a href="/wiki/United_Democratic_Party_(Belize)" title="United Democratic Party (Belize)">United Democratic Party</a> (UDP) for the first time since 2003, having won 26 seats out of 31 to form the new government of Belize. Briceño took office as Prime Minister on 12 November.<a href="#cite_note-41">[40]</a> In 2023, Belize became the second Central American country to be awarded certification for the elimination of <a href="/wiki/Malaria" title="Malaria">malaria</a> by the <a href="/wiki/World_Health_Organization" title="World Health Organization">WHO</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Government_and_politics">Government and politics</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Government and politics">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Belize" title="Politics of Belize">Politics of Belize</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Belize" title="Government of Belize">Government of Belize</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Belmopan_Parliament.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Belmopan_Parliament.jpg/220px-Belmopan_Parliament.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="163" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Belmopan_Parliament.jpg/330px-Belmopan_Parliament.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Belmopan_Parliament.jpg/440px-Belmopan_Parliament.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3213" data-file-height="2379" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(Belize)" title="National Assembly (Belize)">National Assembly</a> in <a href="/wiki/Belmopan" title="Belmopan">Belmopan</a></figcaption></figure> Belize is a <a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_system" title="Parliamentary system">parliamentary</a> <a href="/wiki/Constitutional_monarchy" title="Constitutional monarchy">constitutional monarchy</a>. The structure of government is based on the British parliamentary system, and the legal system is modelled on the <a href="/wiki/English_law#Common_law" title="English law">common law of England</a>. The head of state is <a href="/wiki/Charles_III" title="Charles III">Charles III</a>, who is the <a href="/wiki/King_of_Belize" class="mw-redirect" title="King of Belize">King of Belize</a>. He lives in the United Kingdom, and is represented in Belize by the <a href="/wiki/Governor-General_of_Belize" title="Governor-General of Belize">governor-general</a>. Executive authority is exercised by the cabinet, which advises the governor-general and is led by the <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Belize" class="mw-redirect" title="Prime Minister of Belize">prime minister</a>, who is head of government. Cabinet ministers are members of the majority political party in parliament and usually hold elected seats within it concurrent with their cabinet positions. The bicameral <a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_of_Belize" class="mw-redirect" title="National Assembly of Belize">National Assembly of Belize</a> comprises a <a href="/wiki/House_of_Representatives_of_Belize" class="mw-redirect" title="House of Representatives of Belize">House of Representatives</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Senate_of_Belize" class="mw-redirect" title="Senate of Belize">Senate</a>. The 31 members of the House are popularly elected to a maximum five-year term and introduce legislation affecting the development of Belize. The governor-general appoints the 12 members of the Senate, with a Senate president selected by the members. The Senate is responsible for debating and approving bills passed by the House. <a href="/wiki/Legislative_power" class="mw-redirect" title="Legislative power">Legislative power</a> is vested in both the government and the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Belize" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliament of Belize">Parliament of Belize</a>. Constitutional safeguards include freedom of speech, press, worship, movement, and association. The judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature.<a href="#cite_note-42">[41]</a> Members of the independent judiciary are appointed. The judicial system includes local magistrates grouped under the Magistrates' Court, which hears less serious cases. The <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Belize" title="Supreme Court of Belize">Supreme Court</a> (chief justice) hears murder and similarly serious cases, and the Court of Appeal hears appeals from convicted individuals seeking to have their sentences overturned. Defendants may, under certain circumstances, appeal their cases to the <a href="/wiki/Caribbean_Court_of_Justice" title="Caribbean Court of Justice">Caribbean Court of Justice</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Political_culture">Political culture</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Political culture">edit</a>]</div> In 1935, elections were reinstated, but only 1.8 percent of the population was eligible to vote. In 1954, women won the right to vote.<a href="#cite_note-clio-38">[37]</a> Since 1974, the party system in Belize has been dominated by the centre-left <a href="/wiki/People%27s_United_Party" title="People's United Party">People's United Party</a> and the centre-right <a href="/wiki/United_Democratic_Party_(Belize)" title="United Democratic Party (Belize)">United Democratic Party</a>, although other small parties took part in all levels of elections in the past. Though none of these small political parties has ever won any significant number of seats or offices, their challenge has been growing over the years. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Foreign_relations">Foreign relations</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Foreign relations">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Belize" title="Foreign relations of Belize">Foreign relations of Belize</a></div> Belize is a full participating member of the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a>; the <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations" title="Commonwealth of Nations">Commonwealth of Nations</a>; the <a href="/wiki/Organization_of_American_States" title="Organization of American States">Organization of American States</a> (OAS); the <a href="/wiki/Central_American_Integration_System" title="Central American Integration System">Central American Integration System</a> (SICA); the <a href="/wiki/Caribbean_Community" title="Caribbean Community">Caribbean Community</a> (CARICOM); the <a href="/wiki/CARICOM_Single_Market_and_Economy" title="CARICOM Single Market and Economy">CARICOM Single Market and Economy</a> (CSME); the <a href="/wiki/Association_of_Caribbean_States" title="Association of Caribbean States">Association of Caribbean States</a> (ACS); and the <a href="/wiki/Caribbean_Court_of_Justice" title="Caribbean Court of Justice">Caribbean Court of Justice</a> (CCJ), which currently serves as a final court of appeal for only Barbados, Belize, Guyana and Saint Lucia. In 2001, the Caribbean Community heads of government voted on a measure declaring that the region should work towards replacing the UK's <a href="/wiki/Judicial_Committee_of_the_Privy_Council" title="Judicial Committee of the Privy Council">Judicial Committee of the Privy Council</a> as final court of appeal with the Caribbean Court of Justice. It is still in the process of acceding to CARICOM treaties including the trade and single market treaties. <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Royal_Marines_feel_the_heat_in_the_jungle_of_Belize_MOD_45162175.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Royal_Marines_feel_the_heat_in_the_jungle_of_Belize_MOD_45162175.jpg/220px-Royal_Marines_feel_the_heat_in_the_jungle_of_Belize_MOD_45162175.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Royal_Marines_feel_the_heat_in_the_jungle_of_Belize_MOD_45162175.jpg/330px-Royal_Marines_feel_the_heat_in_the_jungle_of_Belize_MOD_45162175.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Royal_Marines_feel_the_heat_in_the_jungle_of_Belize_MOD_45162175.jpg/440px-Royal_Marines_feel_the_heat_in_the_jungle_of_Belize_MOD_45162175.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3600" data-file-height="2400" /></a><figcaption>A British <a href="/wiki/Royal_Marine" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Marine">Royal Marine</a> training in the jungle of Belize in 2017</figcaption></figure> Belize is an original member (1995) of the <a href="/wiki/World_Trade_Organization" title="World Trade Organization">World Trade Organization</a> (WTO), and participates actively in its work. The pact involves the Caribbean Forum (<a href="/wiki/CARIFORUM" title="CARIFORUM">CARIFORUM</a>) subgroup of the <a href="/wiki/African,_Caribbean_and_Pacific_Group_of_States" class="mw-redirect" title="African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States">Group of African, Caribbean, and Pacific states</a> (ACP). CARIFORUM presently the only part of the wider ACP-bloc that has concluded the full regional trade-pact with the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a>. The <a href="/wiki/British_Army_Training_and_Support_Unit_Belize" title="British Army Training and Support Unit Belize">British Army Garrison</a> in Belize is used primarily for <a href="/wiki/Jungle_warfare" title="Jungle warfare">jungle warfare</a> training, with access to more than 13,000 square kilometres (5,000 sq mi) of jungle terrain.<a href="#cite_note-43">[42]</a> Belize is a party to the <a href="/wiki/Rome_Statute_of_the_International_Criminal_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court">Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court</a>.<a href="#cite_note-44">[43]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Armed_forces">Armed forces</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Armed forces">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Military_of_Belize" class="mw-redirect" title="Military of Belize">Military of Belize</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Belize_Coast_Guard_and_U.S._Navy_Working_Together.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Belize_Coast_Guard_and_U.S._Navy_Working_Together.jpg/220px-Belize_Coast_Guard_and_U.S._Navy_Working_Together.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Belize_Coast_Guard_and_U.S._Navy_Working_Together.jpg/330px-Belize_Coast_Guard_and_U.S._Navy_Working_Together.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Belize_Coast_Guard_and_U.S._Navy_Working_Together.jpg/440px-Belize_Coast_Guard_and_U.S._Navy_Working_Together.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4584" data-file-height="3051" /></a><figcaption>Belizean Coast Guard working with the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a></figcaption></figure> The <a href="/wiki/Belize_Defence_Force" title="Belize Defence Force">Belize Defence Force</a> (BDF) serves as the country's military. The BDF, with the Belize National Coast Guard and the Immigration Department, is a department of the Ministry of Defence and Immigration. In 1997 the regular army numbered more than 900, the reserve army 381, the air wing 45 and the maritime wing 36, amounting to an overall strength of approximately 1,400.<a href="#cite_note-cavehill.uwi.edu-45">[44]</a> In 2005, the maritime wing became part of the Belizean Coast Guard.<a href="#cite_note-ra_20071213-46">[45]</a> In 2012, the Belizean government spent about $17 million on the military, constituting 1.08% of the country's <a href="/wiki/Gross_domestic_product" title="Gross domestic product">gross domestic product</a> (GDP).<a href="#cite_note-CIAFactbookMilitary2019-47">[46]</a> After Belize achieved independence in 1981 the United Kingdom maintained a deterrent force (British Forces Belize) in the country to protect it from invasion by <a href="/wiki/Guatemala" title="Guatemala">Guatemala</a> (see <a href="/wiki/Guatemalan_claim_to_Belizean_territory" class="mw-redirect" title="Guatemalan claim to Belizean territory">Guatemalan claim to Belizean territory</a>). During the 1980s this included a battalion and <a href="/wiki/No._1417_Flight_RAF" title="No. 1417 Flight RAF">No. 1417 Flight RAF</a> of Harriers. The main British force left in 1994, three years after Guatemala recognized Belizean independence, but the United Kingdom maintained a training presence via the British Army Training and Support Unit Belize (BATSUB) and <a href="/wiki/25_Flight_AAC" class="mw-redirect" title="25 Flight AAC">25 Flight AAC</a> until 2011 when the last British Forces left Ladyville Barracks, with the exception of seconded advisers.<a href="#cite_note-cavehill.uwi.edu-45">[44]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Administrative_divisions">Administrative divisions</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Administrative divisions">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Belize,_administrative_divisions_-_en_-_monochrome.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Belize%2C_administrative_divisions_-_en_-_monochrome.svg/220px-Belize%2C_administrative_divisions_-_en_-_monochrome.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="305" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Belize%2C_administrative_divisions_-_en_-_monochrome.svg/330px-Belize%2C_administrative_divisions_-_en_-_monochrome.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Belize%2C_administrative_divisions_-_en_-_monochrome.svg/440px-Belize%2C_administrative_divisions_-_en_-_monochrome.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="788" data-file-height="1092" /></a><figcaption>Districts of Belize</figcaption></figure> Belize is divided into <a href="/wiki/Districts_of_Belize" title="Districts of Belize">six districts</a>. <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>District </th> <th>Capital </th> <th>Area<a href="#cite_note-censusarea-4">[4]</a> </th> <th>Population (2019)<a href="#cite_note-48">[47]</a> </th> <th>Population (2010)<a href="#cite_note-censusarea-4">[4]</a> </th> <th>Change </th> <th>Population density (2019) </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Belize_District" title="Belize District">Belize</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Belize_City" title="Belize City">Belize City</a> </td> <td>4,310 km2 (1,663 sq mi) </td> <td style="text-align:right;">124,096 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">95,292 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+30.2% </td> <td>28.8/km2 (74.6/sq mi) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Cayo_District" title="Cayo District">Cayo</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/San_Ignacio,_Belize" title="San Ignacio, Belize">San Ignacio</a> </td> <td>5,200 km2 (2,006 sq mi) </td> <td style="text-align:right;">99,118 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">75,046 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+32.1% </td> <td>19.1/km2 (49.4/sq mi) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Corozal_District" title="Corozal District">Corozal</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Corozal_Town" title="Corozal Town">Corozal Town</a> </td> <td>1,860 km2 (718 sq mi) </td> <td style="text-align:right;">45,310 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">41,061 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+10.3% </td> <td>24.4/km2 (63.1/sq mi) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Orange_Walk_District" title="Orange Walk District">Orange Walk</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Orange_Walk_Town" title="Orange Walk Town">Orange Walk Town</a> </td> <td>4,600 km2 (1,790 sq mi) </td> <td style="text-align:right;">52,550 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">45,946 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+14.4% </td> <td>11.3/km2 (29.4/sq mi) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Stann_Creek_District" title="Stann Creek District">Stann Creek</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dangriga" title="Dangriga">Dangriga</a> </td> <td>2,550 km2 (986 sq mi) </td> <td style="text-align:right;">48,162 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">34,324 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+40.3% </td> <td>18.9/km2 (48.8/sq mi) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Toledo_District" title="Toledo District">Toledo</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Punta_Gorda,_Belize" title="Punta Gorda, Belize">Punta Gorda</a> </td> <td>4,410 km2 (1,704 sq mi) </td> <td style="text-align:right;">37,124 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">30,783 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+20.6% </td> <td>8.4/km2 (21.8/sq mi) </td></tr> </tbody></table> These districts are further divided into <a href="/wiki/Constituencies_of_Belize" title="Constituencies of Belize">31 constituencies</a>. <a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_Belize" title="Local government in Belize">Local government in Belize</a> comprises four types of local authorities: <a href="/wiki/City_council" class="mw-redirect" title="City council">city councils</a>, <a href="/wiki/Town_council" title="Town council">town councils</a>, <a href="/wiki/Town_council" title="Town council">village councils</a> and <a href="/wiki/Community_council" title="Community council">community councils</a>. The two city councils (<a href="/wiki/Belize_City" title="Belize City">Belize City</a> and <a href="/wiki/Belmopan" title="Belmopan">Belmopan</a>) and seven town councils cover the urban population of the country, while village and community councils cover the rural population.<a href="#cite_note-belgov-49">[48]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Guatemalan_territorial_dispute">Guatemalan territorial dispute</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Guatemalan territorial dispute">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Belizean%E2%80%93Guatemalan_territorial_dispute" title="Belizean–Guatemalan territorial dispute">Belizean–Guatemalan territorial dispute</a></div> Throughout Belize's history, Guatemala has <a href="/wiki/Belizean%E2%80%93Guatemalan_territorial_dispute" title="Belizean–Guatemalan territorial dispute">claimed sovereignty</a> over all or part of Belizean territory. This claim is occasionally reflected in maps drawn by Guatemala's government, showing Belize as Guatemala's <a href="/wiki/Departments_of_Guatemala" title="Departments of Guatemala">twenty-third department</a>.<a href="#cite_note-CIAFactbookTransnational2019-50">[49]</a><a href="#cite_note-52">[b]</a> The Guatemalan territorial claim involves approximately 53% of Belize's mainland, which includes significant portions of four districts: Belize, Cayo, Stann Creek, and Toledo.<a href="#cite_note-53">[51]</a> Roughly 43% of the country's population (≈154,949 Belizeans) reside in this region.<a href="#cite_note-54">[52]</a> As of 2020<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit">[update]</a>, the border dispute with Guatemala remains unresolved and contentious.<a href="#cite_note-CIAFactbookTransnational2019-50">[49]</a><a href="#cite_note-55">[53]</a><a href="#cite_note-56">[54]</a> Guatemala's claim to Belizean territory rests, in part, on Clause VII of the <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Guatemalan_Treaty_of_1859" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglo-Guatemalan Treaty of 1859">Anglo-Guatemalan Treaty of 1859</a>, which obligated the British to build a road between Belize City and Guatemala. At various times, the issue has required mediation by the United Kingdom, <a href="/wiki/Caribbean_Community" title="Caribbean Community">Caribbean Community</a> heads of government, the <a href="/wiki/Organization_of_American_States" title="Organization of American States">Organization of American States</a> (OAS), Mexico, and the United States. On 15 April 2018, Guatemala's government held a referendum to determine if the country should take its <a href="/wiki/Belizean%E2%80%93Guatemalan_territorial_dispute" title="Belizean–Guatemalan territorial dispute">territorial claim on Belize</a> to the <a href="/wiki/International_Court_of_Justice" title="International Court of Justice">International Court of Justice</a> (ICJ) to settle the long-standing issue. Guatemalans voted 95%<a href="#cite_note-57">[55]</a> yes on the matter.<a href="#cite_note-58">[56]</a> A similar referendum was to be held in Belize on 10 April 2019, but a court ruling led to its postponement.<a href="#cite_note-59">[57]</a> The referendum was held on 8 May 2019, and 55.4% of voters opted to send the matter to the ICJ.<a href="#cite_note-60">[58]</a> Both countries submitted requests to the ICJ (in 2018 and 2019, respectively) and the ICJ ordered Guatemala's initial brief be submitted by December 2020 and Belize's response by 2022.<a href="#cite_note-61">[59]</a> On 7 June 2023, the stage of written submissions ended, with the next step being oral arguments from each country's legal teams.<a href="#cite_note-62">[60]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Indigenous_land_claims">Indigenous land claims</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Indigenous land claims">edit</a>]</div> Belize backed the <a href="/wiki/Declaration_on_the_Rights_of_Indigenous_Peoples" title="Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples">United Nations (UN) Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples</a> in 2007, which established legal land rights to indigenous groups.<a href="#cite_note-Cultural_Survival-63">[61]</a> Other court cases have affirmed these rights like the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Belize" title="Supreme Court of Belize">Supreme Court of Belize</a>'s 2013 decision to uphold its ruling in 2010 that acknowledges customary land titles as communal land for indigenous peoples.<a href="#cite_note-64">[62]</a> Another such case is the <a href="/wiki/Caribbean_Court_of_Justice" title="Caribbean Court of Justice">Caribbean Court of Justice</a>'s (CCJ) 2015 order on the Belizean government, which stipulated that the country develop a land registry to classify and exercise traditional governance over Mayan lands. Despite these rulings, Belize has made little progress to support the land rights of indigenous communities; for instance, in the two years after the CCJ's decision, Belize's government failed to launch the Mayan land registry, prompting the group to take action into its own hands.<a href="#cite_note-65">[63]</a><a href="#cite_note-66">[64]</a> The exact ramifications of these cases need to be examined. As of 2017<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit">[update]</a>, Belize still struggles to recognize indigenous populations and their respective rights. According to the 50-page voluntary national report Belize created on its progress toward the <a href="/wiki/Sustainable_Development_Goals" title="Sustainable Development Goals">UN's 2030 Sustainable Development Goals</a>, indigenous groups are not factored into the country's indicators whatsoever.<a href="#cite_note-67">[65]</a> Belize's Maya population is only mentioned once in the entirety of the report.<a href="#cite_note-Cultural_Survival-63">[61]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Geography">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Geography_of_Belize" title="Geography of Belize">Geography of Belize</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:OpenStreetMap_Belize.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/OpenStreetMap_Belize.svg/330px-OpenStreetMap_Belize.svg.png" decoding="async" width="330" height="439" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/OpenStreetMap_Belize.svg/495px-OpenStreetMap_Belize.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/OpenStreetMap_Belize.svg/660px-OpenStreetMap_Belize.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="899" data-file-height="1196" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/OpenStreetMap" title="OpenStreetMap">OpenStreetMap</a> map of Belize, showing landcover, protected areas, major cities and administrative divisions</figcaption></figure> Belize is on the Caribbean coast of northern Central America. It shares a border on the north with the Mexican state of <a href="/wiki/Quintana_Roo" title="Quintana Roo">Quintana Roo</a>, on the west with the Guatemalan department of <a href="/wiki/Pet%C3%A9n_(department)" class="mw-redirect" title="Petén (department)">Petén</a>, and on the south with the Guatemalan department of <a href="/wiki/Izabal_Department" title="Izabal Department">Izabal</a>. To the east in the Caribbean Sea, <a href="/wiki/Belize_Barrier_Reef" title="Belize Barrier Reef">the second-longest barrier reef</a> in the world flanks much of the 386 kilometres (240 mi) of predominantly <a href="/wiki/Marsh" title="Marsh">marshy</a> coastline.<a href="#cite_note-68">[66]</a> The area of the country totals 22,960 square kilometres (8,865 sq mi), an area slightly larger than <a href="/wiki/El_Salvador" title="El Salvador">El Salvador</a>, <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a>. The many <a href="/wiki/Lagoon" title="Lagoon">lagoons</a> along the coasts and in the northern interior reduces the actual land area to 21,400 square kilometres (8,263 sq mi). It is the only Central American country with no Pacific coastline. Belize is shaped roughly like a rhombus that extends about 280 kilometres (174 mi) north-south and about 100 kilometres (62 mi) east-west, with a total land boundary length of 516 kilometres (321 mi). The undulating courses of two rivers, the <a href="/wiki/Rio_Hondo_(Belize)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rio Hondo (Belize)">Hondo</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Sarstoon_River" title="Sarstoon River">Sarstoon River</a>, delineate much of the country's northern and southern boundaries. The western border follows no natural features and runs north–south through lowland forest and highland plateau. The north of Belize consists mostly of flat, swampy coastal plains, in places heavily forested. The <a href="/wiki/Flora_and_vegetation_of_Belize" class="mw-redirect" title="Flora and vegetation of Belize">flora</a> is highly diverse considering the small geographical area. The south contains the low <a href="/wiki/Mountain_range" title="Mountain range">mountain range</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Maya_Mountains" title="Maya Mountains">Maya Mountains</a>. The highest point in Belize is <a href="/wiki/Doyle%27s_Delight" title="Doyle's Delight">Doyle's Delight</a> at 1,124 m (3,688 ft).<a href="#cite_note-69">[67]</a> Belize's rugged geography has also made the country's coastline and jungle attractive to drug smugglers, who use the country as a gateway into Mexico.<a href="#cite_note-70">[68]</a> In 2011, the United States added Belize to the list of nations considered major drug producers or transit countries for narcotics.<a href="#cite_note-71">[69]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Environment_preservation_and_biodiversity">Environment preservation and biodiversity</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Environment preservation and biodiversity">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_protected_areas_of_Belize" title="List of protected areas of Belize">List of protected areas of Belize</a></div> Belize has a rich variety of wildlife because of its position between <a href="/wiki/North_America" title="North America">North</a> and South America and a wide range of climates and habitats for plant and animal life.<a href="#cite_note-72">[70]</a> Belize's low human population and approximately 22,970 square kilometres (8,867 sq mi) of undistributed land make for an ideal home for the more than 5,000 species of plants and hundreds of species of animals, including <a href="/wiki/Armadillo" title="Armadillo">armadillos</a>, snakes, and <a href="/wiki/Monkey" title="Monkey">monkeys</a>.<a href="#cite_note-73">[71]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Cockscomb_Basin_Wildlife_Sanctuary" title="Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary">Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary</a> is a nature reserve in south-central Belize established to protect the forests, fauna, and <a href="/wiki/Drainage_basin" title="Drainage basin">watersheds</a> of an approximately 400 km2 (150 sq mi) area of the eastern slopes of the Maya Mountains. The reserve was founded in 1990 as the first wilderness sanctuary for the <a href="/wiki/Jaguar" title="Jaguar">jaguar</a> and is regarded by one author as the premier site for jaguar preservation in the world.<a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1996-74">[72]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Vegetation_and_flora">Vegetation and flora</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Vegetation and flora">edit</a>]</div> In Belize <a href="/wiki/Forest_cover" title="Forest cover">forest cover</a> is around 56% of the total land area, equivalent to 1,277,050 hectares (ha) of forest in 2020, down from 1,600,030 hectares (ha) in 1990. In 2020, naturally regenerating forest covered 1,274,670 hectares (ha) and planted forest covered 2,390 hectares (ha). Of the naturally regenerating forest 0% was reported to be <a href="/wiki/Primary_forest" class="mw-redirect" title="Primary forest">primary forest</a> (consisting of native tree species with no clearly visible indications of human activity) and around 59% of the forest area was found within protected areas.<a href="#cite_note-75">[73]</a><a href="#cite_note-76">[74]</a> Around 20% of the country's land is covered by cultivated land (agriculture) and human settlements.<a href="#cite_note-77">[75]</a> Belize had a 2018 <a href="/wiki/Forest_Landscape_Integrity_Index" title="Forest Landscape Integrity Index">Forest Landscape Integrity Index</a> mean score of 6.15/10, ranking it 85th globally out of 172 countries.<a href="#cite_note-FLII-Supplementary-78">[76]</a> <a href="/wiki/Savanna" title="Savanna">Savanna</a>, scrubland and <a href="/wiki/Wetland" title="Wetland">wetland</a> constitute the remainder of Belize's land cover. Important <a href="/wiki/Mangrove" title="Mangrove">mangrove</a> ecosystems are also represented across Belize's landscape.<a href="#cite_note-79">[77]</a><a href="#cite_note-80">[78]</a> Four terrestrial ecoregions lie within the country's borders – the <a href="/wiki/Pet%C3%A9n%E2%80%93Veracruz_moist_forests" title="Petén–Veracruz moist forests">Petén–Veracruz moist forests</a>, <a href="/wiki/Belizian_pine_forests" class="mw-redirect" title="Belizian pine forests">Belizian pine forests</a>, <a href="/wiki/Belizean_Coast_mangroves" title="Belizean Coast mangroves">Belizean Coast mangroves</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Belizean_Reef_mangroves" class="mw-redirect" title="Belizean Reef mangroves">Belizean Reef mangroves</a>.<a href="#cite_note-DinersteinOlson2017-81">[79]</a> As a part of the globally significant <a href="/wiki/Mesoamerican_Biological_Corridor" title="Mesoamerican Biological Corridor">Mesoamerican Biological Corridor</a> that stretches from southern Mexico to Panama, Belize's biodiversity – both <a href="/wiki/Marine_(ocean)" class="mw-redirect" title="Marine (ocean)">marine</a> and <a href="/wiki/Terrestrial_ecoregion" class="mw-redirect" title="Terrestrial ecoregion">terrestrial</a> – is rich, with abundant <a href="/wiki/Flora" title="Flora">flora</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fauna" title="Fauna">fauna</a>. Belize is also a leader in protecting biodiversity and natural resources. According to the <a href="/wiki/World_Database_on_Protected_Areas" title="World Database on Protected Areas">World Database on Protected Areas</a>, 37% of Belize's land territory falls under some form of official protection, giving Belize one of the most extensive systems of terrestrial protected areas in the Americas.<a href="#cite_note-ProtectedPlanetBZ-82">[80]</a> By contrast, Costa Rica only has 27% of its land territory protected.<a href="#cite_note-ProtectedPlanetCR-83">[81]</a> Around 13.6% of Belize's <a href="/wiki/Territorial_waters" title="Territorial waters">territorial waters</a>, which contain the <a href="/wiki/Belize_Barrier_Reef" title="Belize Barrier Reef">Belize Barrier Reef</a>, are also protected.<a href="#cite_note-84">[82]</a> The Belize Barrier Reef is a <a href="/wiki/UNESCO" title="UNESCO">UNESCO</a>-recognized <a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_Site" title="World Heritage Site">World Heritage Site</a> and is the second-largest barrier reef in the world, behind Australia's <a href="/wiki/Great_Barrier_Reef" title="Great Barrier Reef">Great Barrier Reef</a>. A <a href="/wiki/Remote_sensing" title="Remote sensing">remote sensing</a> study conducted by the Water Center for the Humid Tropics of Latin America and the Caribbean (CATHALAC) and <a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a>, in collaboration with the Forest Department and the Land Information Centre (LIC) of the government of Belize's Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment (MNRE), and published in August 2010 revealed that Belize's <a href="/wiki/Forest_cover" title="Forest cover">forest cover</a> in early 2010 was approximately 62.7%, down from 75.9% in late 1980.<a href="#cite_note-servir.net-85">[83]</a> A similar study by Belize Tropical Forest Studies and Conservation International revealed similar trends in terms of Belize's forest cover.<a href="#cite_note-86">[84]</a> Both studies indicate that each year, 0.6% of Belize's forest cover is lost, translating to the clearing of an average of 10,050 hectares (24,835 acres) each year. The <a href="/wiki/USAID" class="mw-redirect" title="USAID">USAID</a>-supported SERVIR study by CATHALAC, NASA, and the MNRE also showed that Belize's protected areas have been extremely effective in protecting the country's forests. While only some 6.4% of forests inside of legally declared protected areas were cleared between 1980 and 2010, over a quarter of forests outside of protected areas were lost between 1980 and 2010. As a country with a relatively high forest cover and a low <a href="/wiki/Deforestation" title="Deforestation">deforestation</a> rate, Belize has significant potential for participation in initiatives such as <a href="/wiki/REDD" class="mw-redirect" title="REDD">REDD</a>. Significantly, the SERVIR study on Belize's deforestation<a href="#cite_note-servir.net-85">[83]</a> was also recognized by the <a href="/wiki/Group_on_Earth_Observations" title="Group on Earth Observations">Group on Earth Observations</a> (GEO), of which Belize is a member nation.<a href="#cite_note-87">[85]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Natural_resources_and_energy">Natural resources and energy</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Natural resources and energy">edit</a>]</div> Belize is known to have a number of economically important minerals, but none in quantities large enough to warrant mining. These minerals include <a href="/wiki/Dolomite_(mineral)" title="Dolomite (mineral)">dolomite</a>, <a href="/wiki/Barite" class="mw-redirect" title="Barite">barite</a> (source of <a href="/wiki/Barium" title="Barium">barium</a>), <a href="/wiki/Bauxite" title="Bauxite">bauxite</a> (source of aluminium), <a href="/wiki/Cassiterite" title="Cassiterite">cassiterite</a> (source of tin), and gold. In 1990 <a href="/wiki/Limestone" title="Limestone">limestone</a>, used in road construction, was the only mineral resource exploited for domestic or export use. In 2006, the cultivation of newly discovered <a href="/wiki/Crude_oil" class="mw-redirect" title="Crude oil">crude oil</a> in the town of <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Lookout" title="Spanish Lookout">Spanish Lookout</a> has presented new prospects and problems for this developing nation.<a href="#cite_note-Maya_Homeland-88">[86]</a> Access to <a href="/wiki/Biocapacity" title="Biocapacity">biocapacity</a> in Belize is much higher than world average. In 2016, Belize had 3.8 global hectares<a href="#cite_note-footprintdata-89">[87]</a> of biocapacity per person within its territory, much more than the world average of 1.6 global hectares per person.<a href="#cite_note-90">[88]</a> In 2016 Belize used 5.4 global hectares of biocapacity per person – their <a href="/wiki/Ecological_footprint" title="Ecological footprint">ecological footprint</a> of consumption. This means they use more biocapacity than Belize contains. As a result, Belize is running a biocapacity deficit.<a href="#cite_note-footprintdata-89">[87]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Belize_Barrier_Reef">Belize Barrier Reef</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Belize Barrier Reef">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Belize_Barrier_Reef" title="Belize Barrier Reef">Belize Barrier Reef</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Belize_Barrier_Reef_Aerial_Looking_North.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Belize_Barrier_Reef_Aerial_Looking_North.jpg/170px-Belize_Barrier_Reef_Aerial_Looking_North.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Belize_Barrier_Reef_Aerial_Looking_North.jpg/255px-Belize_Barrier_Reef_Aerial_Looking_North.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Belize_Barrier_Reef_Aerial_Looking_North.jpg/340px-Belize_Barrier_Reef_Aerial_Looking_North.jpg 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="640" /></a><figcaption>Belize Barrier Reef; aerial view looking north</figcaption></figure> The Belize Barrier Reef is a series of <a href="/wiki/Coral_reef" title="Coral reef">coral reefs</a> straddling the coast of Belize, roughly 300 metres (980 ft) offshore in the north and 40 kilometres (25 mi) in the south within the country limits. The Belize Barrier Reef is a 300-kilometre-long (190 mi) section of the 900-kilometre-long (560 mi) <a href="/wiki/Mesoamerican_Barrier_Reef_System" title="Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System">Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System</a>, which is continuous from <a href="/wiki/Canc%C3%BAn" title="Cancún">Cancún</a> on the northeast tip of the <a href="/wiki/Yucat%C3%A1n_Peninsula" title="Yucatán Peninsula">Yucatán Peninsula</a> through the <a href="/wiki/Riviera_Maya" title="Riviera Maya">Riviera Maya</a> up to <a href="/wiki/Honduras" title="Honduras">Honduras</a> making it one of the largest coral reef systems in the world. It is the top tourist destination in Belize, popular for <a href="/wiki/Scuba_diving" title="Scuba diving">scuba diving</a> and <a href="/wiki/Snorkelling" class="mw-redirect" title="Snorkelling">snorkelling</a>, and attracting almost half of its 260,000 visitors. It is also vital to its fishing industry.<a href="#cite_note-BBC_News_-_12_June_2006-91">[89]</a> In 1842 <a href="/wiki/Charles_Darwin" title="Charles Darwin">Charles Darwin</a> described it as "the most remarkable reef in the <a href="/wiki/West_Indies" title="West Indies">West Indies</a>". The Belize Barrier Reef was declared a <a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_Site" title="World Heritage Site">World Heritage Site</a> by <a href="/wiki/UNESCO" title="UNESCO">UNESCO</a> in 1996 due to its vulnerability and the fact that it contains important natural habitats for in-situ conservation of biodiversity.<a href="#cite_note-92">[90]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Species">Species</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Species">edit</a>]</div> The Belize Barrier Reef is home to a large diversity of plants and animals, and is one of the most diverse <a href="/wiki/Ecosystem" title="Ecosystem">ecosystems</a> of the world: <ul><li>70 hard coral species</li> <li>36 <a href="/wiki/Alcyonacea" title="Alcyonacea">soft coral</a> species</li> <li>500 species of fish</li> <li>hundreds of <a href="/wiki/Invertebrate" title="Invertebrate">invertebrate</a> species</li></ul> With ~90% of the reef still yet to be researched, some estimate that only 10% of all species have been discovered.<a href="#cite_note-93">[91]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Conservation">Conservation</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Conservation">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Great_Blue_Hole.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Great_Blue_Hole.jpg/220px-Great_Blue_Hole.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="171" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Great_Blue_Hole.jpg/330px-Great_Blue_Hole.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Great_Blue_Hole.jpg/440px-Great_Blue_Hole.jpg 2x" data-file-width="662" data-file-height="515" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Great_Blue_Hole" title="Great Blue Hole">Great Blue Hole</a>, a phenomenon of <a href="/wiki/Karst_topography" class="mw-redirect" title="Karst topography">karst topography</a></figcaption></figure> Belize became the first country in the world to completely ban <a href="/wiki/Bottom_trawling" title="Bottom trawling">bottom trawling</a> in December 2010.<a href="#cite_note-94">[92]</a><a href="#cite_note-95">[93]</a> In December 2015, Belize banned offshore oil drilling within 1 km (0.6 mi) of the Barrier Reef and all of its seven World Heritage Sites.<a href="#cite_note-96">[94]</a> Despite these protective measures, the reef remains under threat from <a href="/wiki/Marine_pollution" title="Marine pollution">oceanic pollution</a> as well as uncontrolled tourism, shipping, and fishing. Other threats include hurricanes, along with global warming and the resulting increase in ocean temperatures,<a href="#cite_note-97">[95]</a> which causes <a href="/wiki/Coral_bleaching" title="Coral bleaching">coral bleaching</a>. It is claimed by scientists that over 40% of Belize's coral reef has been damaged since 1998.<a href="#cite_note-BBC_News_-_12_June_2006-91">[89]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Climate">Climate</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Climate">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Hurricanes_in_Belize" class="mw-redirect" title="Hurricanes in Belize">Hurricanes in Belize</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Koppen-Geiger_Map_BLZ_present_cropped.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Koppen-Geiger_Map_BLZ_present_cropped.svg/240px-Koppen-Geiger_Map_BLZ_present_cropped.svg.png" decoding="async" width="240" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Koppen-Geiger_Map_BLZ_present_cropped.svg/360px-Koppen-Geiger_Map_BLZ_present_cropped.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Koppen-Geiger_Map_BLZ_present_cropped.svg/480px-Koppen-Geiger_Map_BLZ_present_cropped.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="815" data-file-height="906" /></a><figcaption>Köppen climate classification of Belize</figcaption></figure> Belize has a <a href="/wiki/Tropical_climate" title="Tropical climate">tropical climate</a> with pronounced <a href="/wiki/Wet_season" title="Wet season">wet</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dry_season" title="Dry season">dry seasons</a>, although there are significant variations in weather patterns by region. Temperatures vary according to elevation, proximity to the coast, and the moderating effects of the northeast trade winds off the Caribbean. Average temperatures in the coastal regions range from 24 °C (75.2 °F) in January to 27 °C (80.6 °F) in July. Temperatures are slightly higher inland, except for the southern highland plateaus, such as the <a href="/wiki/Mountain_Pine_Ridge" class="mw-redirect" title="Mountain Pine Ridge">Mountain Pine Ridge</a>, where it is noticeably cooler year round. Overall, the seasons are marked more by differences in humidity and rainfall than in temperature. Average rainfall varies considerably, from 1,350 millimetres (53 in) in the north and west to over 4,500 millimetres (180 in) in the extreme south. Seasonal differences in rainfall are greatest in the northern and central regions of the country where, between January and April or May, less than 100 millimetres (3.9 in) of rainfall per month. The dry season is shorter in the south, normally only lasting from February to April. A shorter, less rainy period, known locally as the "little dry", usually occurs in late July or August, after the onset of the rainy season. <a href="/wiki/Tropical_cyclone" title="Tropical cyclone">Hurricanes</a> have played key—and devastating—roles in <a href="/wiki/History_of_Belize" title="History of Belize">Belizean history</a>. In 1931, an unnamed hurricane destroyed over two-thirds of the buildings in Belize City and killed more than 1,000 people. In 1955, <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Janet" title="Hurricane Janet">Hurricane Janet</a> levelled the northern town of <a href="/wiki/Corozal_Town" title="Corozal Town">Corozal</a>. Only six years later, <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Hattie" title="Hurricane Hattie">Hurricane Hattie</a> struck the central coastal area of the country, with winds in excess of 300 km/h (185 mph) and 4 m (13 ft) <a href="/wiki/Storm_tide" class="mw-redirect" title="Storm tide">storm tides</a>. The devastation of Belize City for the second time in thirty years prompted the relocation of the capital some 80 kilometres (50 mi) inland to the <a href="/wiki/Planned_city" class="mw-redirect" title="Planned city">planned city</a> of <a href="/wiki/Belmopan" title="Belmopan">Belmopan</a>. In 1978, <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Greta-Olivia" class="mw-redirect" title="Hurricane Greta-Olivia">Hurricane Greta</a> caused more than US$25 million in damage along the southern coast. In 2000, <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Keith" title="Hurricane Keith">Hurricane Keith</a>, the wettest tropical cyclone in the nation's record, stalled, and hit the nation as a Category 4 storm on 1 October, causing 19 deaths and at least $280 million in damage. Soon after, on 9 October 2001, <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Iris" title="Hurricane Iris">Hurricane Iris</a> made landfall at <a href="/wiki/Monkey_River_Town" title="Monkey River Town">Monkey River Town</a> as a 235 km/h (145 mph) Category 4 storm. The storm demolished most of the homes in the village, and destroyed the banana crop. In 2007, <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Dean" title="Hurricane Dean">Hurricane Dean</a> made landfall as a Category 5 storm only 40 km (25 mi) north of the Belize–Mexico border. Dean caused extensive damage in northern Belize. In 2010, Belize was directly affected by the Category 2 <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Richard" title="Hurricane Richard">Hurricane Richard</a>, which made landfall approximately 32 kilometres (20 mi) south-southeast of Belize City at around 00:45 UTC on 25 October 2010.<a href="#cite_note-98">[96]</a> The storm moved inland towards <a href="/wiki/Belmopan" title="Belmopan">Belmopan</a>, causing estimated damage of <a href="/wiki/Belize_dollar" title="Belize dollar">BZ$</a>33.8 million ($17.4 million 2010 USD), primarily from damage to crops and housing.<a href="#cite_note-99">[97]</a> The most recent hurricane to make landfall in Belize was <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Lisa_(2022)" title="Hurricane Lisa (2022)">Hurricane Lisa</a> in 2022. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Economy">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Belize" title="Economy of Belize">Economy of Belize</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sugar_Cane_Processing_Plant_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Sugar_Cane_Processing_Plant_2.jpg/220px-Sugar_Cane_Processing_Plant_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Sugar_Cane_Processing_Plant_2.jpg/330px-Sugar_Cane_Processing_Plant_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Sugar_Cane_Processing_Plant_2.jpg/440px-Sugar_Cane_Processing_Plant_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3872" data-file-height="2592" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/Sugar_cane" class="mw-redirect" title="Sugar cane">sugar cane</a> processing plant, Orange Walk Town, Belize. Sugar is one of Belize's top exports.</figcaption></figure> Belize has a small, mostly private enterprise economy that is based primarily on agriculture, agro-based industry, and merchandising, with tourism and construction recently assuming greater importance.<a href="#cite_note-Maya_Homeland-88">[86]</a> The country is also a producer of <a href="/wiki/Industrial_mineral" title="Industrial mineral">industrial minerals</a>,<a href="#cite_note-100">[98]</a> <a href="/wiki/Crude_oil" class="mw-redirect" title="Crude oil">crude oil</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Petroleum" title="Petroleum">petroleum</a>. As of 2017<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit">[update]</a>, oil production was 320 m3/d (2,000 bbl/d).<a href="#cite_note-EIA-101">[99]</a> In agriculture, <a href="/wiki/Sugar" title="Sugar">sugar</a>, like in colonial times, remains the chief crop, accounting for nearly half of exports, while the <a href="/wiki/Banana" title="Banana">banana</a> industry is the largest employer.<a href="#cite_note-Maya_Homeland-88">[86]</a> In 2007 Belize became the world's third largest exporter of <a href="/wiki/Papaya" title="Papaya">papaya</a>.<a href="#cite_note-102">[100]</a> The government of Belize faces important challenges to economic stability. Rapid action to improve <a href="/wiki/Tax_collection" class="mw-redirect" title="Tax collection">tax collection</a> has been promised, but a lack of progress in reining in spending could bring the <a href="/wiki/Exchange_rate" title="Exchange rate">exchange rate</a> under pressure. The tourist and construction sectors strengthened in early 1999, leading to a preliminary estimate of revived growth at four percent. Infrastructure remains a major economic development challenge;<a href="#cite_note-USDoS-Belize-103">[101]</a> Belize has the region's most expensive electricity. Trade is important and the major trading partners are the United States, Mexico, the United Kingdom, the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Caribbean_Community" title="Caribbean Community">CARICOM</a>.<a href="#cite_note-USDoS-Belize-103">[101]</a> Belize has four commercial bank groups, of which the largest and oldest is <a href="/wiki/Belize_Bank" title="Belize Bank">Belize Bank</a>. The other three banks are Heritage Bank, Atlantic Bank, and <a href="/wiki/Scotiabank" title="Scotiabank">Scotiabank</a> (Belize). A robust complex of <a href="/wiki/Credit_union" title="Credit union">credit unions</a> began in the 1940s under the leadership of <a href="/wiki/Marion_M._Ganey" title="Marion M. Ganey">Marion M. Ganey</a>, S.J.<a href="#cite_note-104">[102]</a> Because of its location on the coast of Central America, Belize is a popular destination for vacationers and for many North American drug traffickers. The Belize currency is pegged to the U.S. dollar and banks in Belize offer non-residents the ability to establish accounts, so drug traffickers and money launderers are attracted to banks in Belize. As a result, the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State" title="United States Department of State">United States Department of State</a> has, since 2014, named Belize as one of the world's "major money laundering countries".<a href="#cite_note-105">[103]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Industrial_infrastructure">Industrial infrastructure</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Industrial infrastructure">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Belize_electricity_production.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Belize_electricity_production.svg/310px-Belize_electricity_production.svg.png" decoding="async" width="310" height="221" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Belize_electricity_production.svg/465px-Belize_electricity_production.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Belize_electricity_production.svg/620px-Belize_electricity_production.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="639" data-file-height="455" /></a><figcaption>Belize electricity supply by source</figcaption></figure> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Update plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Update" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Ambox_current_red.svg/42px-Ambox_current_red.svg.png" decoding="async" width="42" height="34" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Ambox_current_red.svg/63px-Ambox_current_red.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Ambox_current_red.svg/84px-Ambox_current_red.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="290" /></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (January 2014)</div></td></tr></tbody></table> The largest integrated electric utility and the principal distributor in Belize is <a href="/wiki/Belize_Electricity_Limited" title="Belize Electricity Limited">Belize Electricity Limited</a>. BEL was approximately 70% owned by <a href="/wiki/Fortis_Inc." title="Fortis Inc.">Fortis Inc.</a>, a Canadian investor-owned distribution utility. Fortis took over the management of BEL in 1999, at the invitation of the government of Belize in an attempt to mitigate prior financial problems with the locally managed utility. In addition to its regulated investment in BEL, Fortis owns Belize Electric Company Limited (BECOL), a non-regulated <a href="/wiki/Hydroelectric" class="mw-redirect" title="Hydroelectric">hydroelectric</a> generation business that operates three hydroelectric generating facilities on the <a href="/wiki/Macal_River" title="Macal River">Macal River</a>. On 14 June 2011, the government of Belize nationalized the ownership interest of Fortis Inc. in Belize Electricity Ltd. The utility encountered serious financial problems after the country's Public Utilities Commission (PUC) in 2008 "disallowed the recovery of previously incurred fuel and purchased power costs in customer rates and set customer rates at a level that does not allow BEL to earn a fair and reasonable return", Fortis said in a June 2011 statement.<a href="#cite_note-106">[104]</a> BEL appealed this judgement to the Court of Appeal, with a hearing expected in 2012. In May 2011, the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Belize" title="Supreme Court of Belize">Supreme Court of Belize</a> granted BEL's application to prevent the PUC from taking any enforcement actions pending the appeal. The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry issued a statement saying the government had acted in haste and expressed concern over the message it sent to investors. In August 2009, the government of Belize nationalized <a href="/wiki/Belize_Telemedia_Limited" title="Belize Telemedia Limited">Belize Telemedia Limited</a> (BTL), which now competes directly with <a href="/wiki/Speednet" title="Speednet">Speednet</a>. As a result of the nationalization process, the <a href="/wiki/Interconnection" title="Interconnection">interconnection</a> agreements are again subject to negotiations. Both BTL and Speednet sell basic telephone services, national and international calls, prepaid services, cellular services via GSM 1900 megahertz (MHz) and 4G LTE respectively, international cellular roaming, fixed wireless, fibre-to-the-home internet service, and national and international data networks.<a href="#cite_note-107">[105]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tourism">Tourism</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Tourism">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Tourism_in_Belize" title="Tourism in Belize">Tourism in Belize</a></div> A combination of natural factors – climate, the <a href="/wiki/Belize_Barrier_Reef" title="Belize Barrier Reef">Belize Barrier Reef</a>, over 450 offshore Cays (islands), excellent fishing, safe waters for boating, <a href="/wiki/Scuba_diving" title="Scuba diving">scuba diving</a>, <a href="/wiki/Snorkelling" class="mw-redirect" title="Snorkelling">snorkelling</a> and <a href="/wiki/Freediving" title="Freediving">freediving</a>, numerous rivers for <a href="/wiki/Rafting" title="Rafting">rafting</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Kayaking" title="Kayaking">kayaking</a>, various <a href="/wiki/Jungle_(terrain)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jungle (terrain)">jungle</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wildlife_reserves" class="mw-redirect" title="Wildlife reserves">wildlife reserves</a> of fauna and flora, for hiking, <a href="/wiki/Birdwatching" title="Birdwatching">birdwatching</a>, and helicopter touring, as well as many Maya sites – support the thriving tourism and <a href="/wiki/Ecotourism" title="Ecotourism">ecotourism</a> industry. Development costs are high, but the government of Belize has made tourism its second development priority after agriculture. In 2012, tourist arrivals totalled 917,869 (with about 584,683 from the United States) and tourist receipts amounted to over $1.3 billion.<a href="#cite_note-108">[106]</a> After <a href="/wiki/COVID-19" title="COVID-19">COVID-19</a> struck tourism, Belize became the first country in the Caribbean to allow vaccinated travellers to visit without a COVID-19 test.<a href="#cite_note-109">[107]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Demographics">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Belize" title="Demographics of Belize">Demographics of Belize</a> and <a href="/wiki/Belizean_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Belizean people">Belizean people</a></div> According to the 2022 census, Belize's population is 397,483.<a href="#cite_note-sib2024-5">[5]</a> Belize's <a href="/wiki/Total_fertility_rate" title="Total fertility rate">total fertility rate</a> in 2023 was 2.010 children per woman.<a href="#cite_note-110">[108]</a> Its birth rate was 17.8 births/1,000 population (2022), and the death rate was 6.3 deaths/1,000 population (2022).<a href="#cite_note-111">[109]</a> A substantial ethnic-demographic shift has been occurring since 1980 when the Creole/ Hispanic ratio shifted from 58/38 to 26/53 in (census,1991), due to many Creoles moving to the US and a rising Mestizo birth rate and migration from Latin America.<a href="#cite_note-112">[110]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ethnic_groups">Ethnic groups</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Ethnic groups">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a>. Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Belize" title="Special:EditPage/Belize">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>. (November 2024) (<a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a>)</div></td></tr></tbody></table> Belize, despite its small population, is a melting pot of cultures. Although the colonial government encouraged the idea and passive application of <a href="/wiki/Racial_segregation" title="Racial segregation">racial segregation</a> to keep the population divided, it never did have a strong impact on the small, diverse, and largely interconnected population.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Like many other post-colonial countries, there are traces of racism, but it has been minimal: most Belizeans do not tolerate or justify it. Belize has a dozen or more active cultures and the different ethnic groups have all contributed in the making of the Belizean identity through food, music, loaned words, folklores, fashion and arts. They have blended together, creating the Belizean unity captured by the country's motto, "Sub umbra floreo," which means, "Under the shade I flourish." <div class="notheme barbox tright" style="overflow-x: auto;"> <div style="border:1px solid silver; font-size:88%; padding:0.4em; width:109km; background: white; color: black;"> <a href="#cite_note-auto1-113">[111]</a><table style="text-align:left; border-collapse:collapse; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr style="background:#ddd"><th style="text-align:center;" colspan="5">Ethnic Groups in Belize</th></tr> <tr style="font-size:88%; height:4px;"> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; text-align:left;">Ethnic Groups</td> <td style="width:100px; text-align:left;"></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; width:1em; text-align:right;">percent</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Hispanic</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:darkgreen; width:51.7%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">51.7%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Creole</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:purple; width:25.2%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">25.2%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Maya</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:gold; width:9.8%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">9.8%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">White</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:lime; width:4.8%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">4.8%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Garifuna</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:yellow; width:4%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">4%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">East Indian</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:orange; width:1.5%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">1.5%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Other</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:darkgray; width:1.2%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">1.2%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">East Asian and Arab</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:maroon; width:1%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">1%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Not Stated</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:teal; width:0.3%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">0.3%</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_Maya">The Maya</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: The Maya">edit</a>]</div> The Maya are thought to have been in Belize and the <a href="/wiki/Yucat%C3%A1n_region" class="mw-redirect" title="Yucatán region">Yucatán region</a> since the second millennium BCE. Many died in conflicts or by catching disease from invading Europeans. Three Maya groups inhabit the country: The <a href="/wiki/Yucatec" class="mw-redirect" title="Yucatec">Yucatec</a> (who came from Yucatán, Mexico, to escape the savage <a href="/wiki/Caste_War_of_Yucat%C3%A1n" title="Caste War of Yucatán">Caste War</a> of the 1840s), the <a href="/wiki/Mopan_people" title="Mopan people">Mopan</a> (indigenous to Belize but were forced out to Guatemala by the British for raiding settlements; they returned to Belize to evade enslavement by the Guatemalans in the 19th century), and <a href="/wiki/Q%27eqchi%27_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Q'eqchi' people">Q'eqchi'</a> (also fled from slavery in Guatemala in the 19th century).<a href="#cite_note-114">[112]</a> The latter groups are chiefly found in the <a href="/wiki/Toledo_District" title="Toledo District">Toledo District</a>. The Maya speak their native languages and Spanish, and are also often fluent in English and Belizean Creole. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Belizean_Creoles">Belizean Creoles</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Belizean Creoles">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Belizean_Creole_people" title="Belizean Creole people">Belizean Creole people</a> and <a href="/wiki/Baymen" title="Baymen">Baymen</a></div> Belizean Creoles are primarily <a href="/wiki/Mixed-race" class="mw-redirect" title="Mixed-race">mixed-raced</a> descendants of <a href="/wiki/African_slave_trade" class="mw-redirect" title="African slave trade">West and Central Africans</a> who were brought to the <a href="/wiki/British_Honduras" title="British Honduras">British Honduras</a> (modern Belize along the <a href="/wiki/Bay_of_Honduras" class="mw-redirect" title="Bay of Honduras">Bay of Honduras</a>) as well as the <a href="/wiki/English_people" title="English people">English</a> and <a href="/wiki/Scottish_people" title="Scottish people">Scottish</a> log cutters, known as the <a href="/wiki/Baymen" title="Baymen">Baymen</a>.<a href="#cite_note-115">[113]</a><a href="#cite_note-jstor.org-116">[114]</a> Over the years they have also intermarried with <a href="/wiki/Miskito_people" title="Miskito people">Miskito</a> from <a href="/wiki/Nicaragua" title="Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jamaicans" title="Jamaicans">Jamaicans</a> and other <a href="/wiki/Caribbean_people" title="Caribbean people">Caribbean people</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hispanic_Belizean" class="mw-redirect" title="Hispanic Belizean">Mestizos</a>, <a href="/wiki/White_Caribbeans" class="mw-redirect" title="White Caribbeans">Europeans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Garifuna" title="Garifuna">Garifunas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maya_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Maya people">Maya</a> etc. The majority of Creoles trace their ancestry to several of the aforementioned groups. The creole and African slaves came to British Honduras (modern day Belize) from Jamaica, as Jamaica was the closest British colony administering British Honduras at the time and it was the slave ships' final destination. It is also mentioned that many slaves brought to Belize were trouble makers and resisters from Jamaican sugar cane plantations. Belize town was the epicentre of the colony and many slaves ended up in the logwood and timber industry. Women and children stayed doing domestic and farm work. Slaves in Belize were more free to travel and roam around the colony due to their work. This caused the rapid integration of African slaves from different tribes and parts of Africa to mingle with the free coloureds and sons and daughters of slave owners with slaves. Some predominant coloured or light skinned creole communities were in the Belize river valley namely Crooked Tree, Isabela Bank, Bermudian Landings and Lemonal among others. Most of them have light or blue eyes and light skin. Unlike the fast integration and intermarriages of creoles with Africans and Hispanics in Belize City, the creoles in the Belize river valley area had a more lighter complexion and more visible European traits. The Belizean Creole along with Africans and Garifuna make up the Afro-Belizean population; about 30% of the population. The Creoles have had a great impact in Belizean history and politics. They were active and part of the Battle of St George's Caye, Part of the British West Indies Battalion in world war one and world war two, and the Negro movement for equal rights. They were one of the first group of people to advocate for and get a higher education in Jamaica and the UK in which after returning to Belize, the educated scholars rallied and started the movement for adult suffrage, self-government and independence. All of the important historical events started in Belize City and most of the first people involved were of creole descent which were the upper and middle class of Belize at the time. Well known Creole Belizeans were Samuel Haynes, Philip Goldson, Dean Barrow, Dame Minita Gordon, Cleopatra White, Cordel Hyde and Patrick Faber among others. The Creole were the biggest ethnic group in Belize until the 1980s due to mass migration of Afro Belizeans to the United States, United Kingdom and West Indies from the 1960s to 1970s and the mass immigration of Central American refugees to Belize. Due to the Central American War, and political instability, the country's demographics changed forever. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Belizean_Creole_language">Belizean Creole language</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Belizean Creole language">edit</a>]</div> For all intents and purposes, Creole is an ethnic and linguistic denomination. Some natives, even with blonde hair and blue eyes, may call themselves Creoles.<a href="#cite_note-Johnson_2003_pp._598-117">[115]</a> <a href="/wiki/Belizean_Creole" title="Belizean Creole">Belizean Creole</a> or Kriol developed during the time of slavery, and historically was only spoken by former enslaved Africans. It became an integral part of the Belizean identity, spoken by about 45% of Belizeans.<a href="#cite_note-census2010-118">[116]</a><a href="#cite_note-Johnson_2003_pp._598-117">[115]</a> Belizean Creole is derived mainly from English. Its <a href="/wiki/Substratum_(linguistics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Substratum (linguistics)">substrate languages</a> are the Native American language <a href="/wiki/Miskito_language" title="Miskito language">Miskito</a>, and the various <a href="/wiki/West_African" class="mw-redirect" title="West African">West African</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bantu_languages" title="Bantu languages">Bantu languages</a>, native languages of the enslaved Africans. Creoles are found all over Belize, but predominantly in urban areas such as Belize City, coastal towns and villages, and in the Belize River Valley.<a href="#cite_note-119">[117]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Garinagu">Garinagu</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Garinagu">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Garifuna_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Garifuna people">Garifuna people</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Garifuna_dancers_in_Dangriga,_Belize.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Garifuna_dancers_in_Dangriga%2C_Belize.jpg/220px-Garifuna_dancers_in_Dangriga%2C_Belize.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="156" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Garifuna_dancers_in_Dangriga%2C_Belize.jpg/330px-Garifuna_dancers_in_Dangriga%2C_Belize.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Garifuna_dancers_in_Dangriga%2C_Belize.jpg/440px-Garifuna_dancers_in_Dangriga%2C_Belize.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="708" /></a><figcaption>Traditional Garifuna dancers in <a href="/wiki/Dangriga" title="Dangriga">Dangriga</a>, Belize</figcaption></figure> The <a href="/wiki/Garinagu" class="mw-redirect" title="Garinagu">Garinagu</a> (singular Garifuna), at around 4.5% of the population, are a mix of West/Central African, <a href="/wiki/Arawaks" class="mw-redirect" title="Arawaks">Arawak</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Island_Carib" class="mw-redirect" title="Island Carib">Island Carib</a> ancestry. Though they were captives removed from their homelands, these people were never documented as slaves. The two prevailing theories are that, in 1635, they were either the survivors of two recorded shipwrecks or somehow took over the ship they came on.<a href="#cite_note-www2.ku.edu-120">[118]</a> Throughout history they have been incorrectly labelled as <a href="/wiki/Black_Caribs" class="mw-redirect" title="Black Caribs">Black Caribs</a>. When the British took over <a href="/wiki/Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines" title="Saint Vincent and the Grenadines">Saint Vincent and the Grenadines</a> after the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_(1763)" title="Treaty of Paris (1763)">Treaty of Paris</a> in 1763, they were opposed by French settlers and their Garinagu allies. The Garinagu eventually surrendered to the British in 1796. The British separated the more African-looking Garifunas from the more indigenous-looking ones. 5,000 Garinagu were exiled from the Grenadine island of <a href="/wiki/Baliceaux" title="Baliceaux">Baliceaux</a>. About 2,500 of them survived the voyage to <a href="/wiki/Roat%C3%A1n" title="Roatán">Roatán</a>, an island off the coast of Honduras. The <a href="/wiki/Garifuna_language" title="Garifuna language">Garifuna language</a> belongs to the <a href="/wiki/Arawakan_languages" title="Arawakan languages">Arawakan language family</a>, but has a large number of loanwords from Carib languages and from English. Because <a href="/wiki/Roat%C3%A1n" title="Roatán">Roatán</a> was too small and infertile to support their population, the Garinagu petitioned the Spanish authorities of Honduras to be allowed to settle on the mainland coast. The Spanish employed them as soldiers, and they spread along the Caribbean coast of Central America. The Garinagu settled in Seine Bight, <a href="/wiki/Punta_Gorda,_Belize" title="Punta Gorda, Belize">Punta Gorda</a> and Punta Negra, Belize, by way of Honduras as early as 1802. In Belize, 19 November 1832 is the date officially recognized as "<a href="/wiki/Garifuna_Settlement_Day" title="Garifuna Settlement Day">Garifuna Settlement Day</a>" in Dangriga.<a href="#cite_note-2000_Belize_Census-121">[119]</a> According to one genetic study, their ancestry is on average 76% <a href="/wiki/Sub_Saharan_Africa" class="mw-redirect" title="Sub Saharan Africa">Sub Saharan African</a>, 20% <a href="/wiki/Arawak" title="Arawak">Arawak</a>/<a href="/wiki/Island_Carib" class="mw-redirect" title="Island Carib">Island Carib</a> and 4% <a href="/wiki/European_ethnic_groups" class="mw-redirect" title="European ethnic groups">European</a>.<a href="#cite_note-www2.ku.edu-120">[118]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Belizean_Hispanics">Belizean Hispanics</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Belizean Hispanics">edit</a>]</div> The Hispanic population in Belize makes up about half of the population and consists of two main groups, the Yucatec Mestizos, better known as Mestizos, and the Central American Refugees and migrants. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Mestizo" title="Mestizo">Mestizo</a></div> The Mestizo are people of mixed Spanish and Yucatec Maya descent. They were the first to bring the Catholicism and the Spanish language to Belize after various failed attempts over the century by Spanish conquistadores. They originally came to Belize in 1847, to escape the <a href="/wiki/Caste_War_of_Yucat%C3%A1n" title="Caste War of Yucatán">Caste War</a>, which occurred when thousands of Mayas rose against the state in Yucatán and massacred over one-third of the population. The surviving others fled across the borders into British territory. The Mestizos are found everywhere in Belize but most make their homes in the northern districts of Corozal and Orange Walk. Some other Hispanics came from Latin and Central America like <a href="/wiki/El_Salvador" title="El Salvador">El Salvador</a>, <a href="/wiki/Guatemala" title="Guatemala">Guatemala</a>, <a href="/wiki/Honduras" title="Honduras">Honduras</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Nicaragua" title="Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a>. The Mestizos along with Latin Americans are the largest ethnic group in Belize, the Hispanics. The typical Mestizo towns centre on a main square, and social life focuses on the Hispanic and Catholic Church traditions and customs. Spanish is the main language of most Mestizos and Hispanic descendants, but many speak English and Belizean Creole fluently.<a href="#cite_note-mybelizeadventure.com-122">[120]</a> Due to the influences of Belizean Creole and English, many Mestizos speak what is known as <a href="/wiki/Spanglish" title="Spanglish">"Kitchen Spanish"</a>.<a href="#cite_note-ambergriscaye.com-123">[121]</a> The mixture of Yucatec Mestizo and Yucatec<a href="#cite_note-124">[122]</a> Maya foods like tamales, escabeche, chirmole, relleno, and empanadas came from their Mexican side and corn tortillas were handed down by their Mayan side. Music comes mainly from the <a href="/wiki/Marimba" title="Marimba">marimba</a>, but they also play and sing with the guitar. Dances performed at village fiestas include the Hog-Head, Zapateados, the Mestizada, Paso Doble and many more. Just like Southern Mexico and Northern Belize the marimba and its music is an iconic and important traditional folklore instrument across Central America. Some typical Central American foods blended into the Belizean gastronomy are the famous Salvadorian pupusas, the famous Honduran baliadas, the gacho, tajadas, tostones and they have also influenced the form of the Spanish language in the South of Belize. In the short span of their mass migration to Belize, Central American migrants have contributed significantly to Belize not only culturally but also economically. The Yucatec Mestizo culture is unique and very different from the culture of those migrants and refugees coming form Latin American and Central American countries. Hispanics make up 51.7% of the Belizean population. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="White_Belizeans">White Belizeans</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: White Belizeans">edit</a>]</div> <a href="/wiki/White_people" title="White people">Whites</a> or Caucasians in Belize are around 4.8% of the population, being people and descendants from Ireland and the United Kingdom, expats from the United States and Canada, <a href="/wiki/Lebanese_people" title="Lebanese people">Lebanese</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mennonites" title="Mennonites">Mennonites</a> and many others brought to assist the country's development. Irish settlers and migrants and veterans from <a href="/wiki/Louisiana" title="Louisiana">Louisiana</a> and other Southern states established <a href="/wiki/Confederate_settlements_in_British_Honduras" title="Confederate settlements in British Honduras">Confederate settlements in British Honduras</a> and introduced commercial sugar cane production to the colony, establishing 11 settlements in the interior. The biggest Caucasian group are the Mennonites: they divide themselves into traditional and conservative or orthodox Mennonites and modern or reformed Mennonites. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Mennonites_in_Belize" title="Mennonites in Belize">Mennonites in Belize</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Menonite_Children.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Menonite_Children.JPG/220px-Menonite_Children.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Menonite_Children.JPG/330px-Menonite_Children.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Menonite_Children.JPG/440px-Menonite_Children.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1944" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Mennonites" title="Mennonites">Mennonite</a> children selling peanuts near Lamanai in Belize.</figcaption></figure> Over 12,000 <a href="/wiki/Plautdietsch_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Plautdietsch language">Plautdietsch</a>-speaking <a href="/wiki/Mennonites_in_Belize" title="Mennonites in Belize">Mennonites</a> live in Belize, farming the land and living according to their religious beliefs.<a href="#cite_note-125">[123]</a> The majority of the <a href="/wiki/Mennonites" title="Mennonites">Mennonite</a> population comprises so-called <a href="/wiki/Russian_Mennonites" title="Russian Mennonites">Russian Mennonites</a> of German descent who settled in the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russian Empire</a> during the 18th and 19th centuries. Most Russian Mennonites live in Mennonite settlements like <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Lookout" title="Spanish Lookout">Spanish Lookout</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shipyard,_Belize" title="Shipyard, Belize">Shipyard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Little_Belize" title="Little Belize">Little Belize</a>, and Blue Creek. These Mennonites speak <a href="/wiki/Plautdietsch" title="Plautdietsch">Plautdietsch</a> (a <a href="/wiki/Low_German" title="Low German">Low German dialect</a>) in everyday life, but use mostly <a href="/wiki/Standard_German" title="Standard German">Standard German</a> for reading (the Bible) and writing. The Plautdietsch-speaking <a href="/wiki/Mennonites_in_Mexico" title="Mennonites in Mexico">Mennonites came mostly from Mexico</a> in the years after 1958 and they are trilingual with proficiency in Spanish. There are also some mainly <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_Dutch" title="Pennsylvania Dutch">Pennsylvania Dutch</a>-speaking <a href="/wiki/Old_Order_Mennonites" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Order Mennonites">Old Order Mennonites</a> who came from the United States and Canada in the late 1960s. They live primarily in <a href="/wiki/Upper_Barton_Creek" title="Upper Barton Creek">Upper Barton Creek</a> and associated settlements. These Mennonites attracted people from different <a href="/wiki/Anabaptist" class="mw-redirect" title="Anabaptist">Anabaptist</a> backgrounds who formed a new community. They look quite similar to <a href="/wiki/Amish" title="Amish">Old Order Amish</a>, but are different from them. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="East_Indians">East Indians</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: East Indians">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Indo-Belizeans" title="Indo-Belizeans">Indo-Belizeans</a></div> Indo-Belizeans, also known as East Indian Belizeans, are citizens of Belize of <a href="/wiki/Indian_people" title="Indian people">Indian</a> ancestry. The community made up 3.9% of the population of Belize in 2010.<a href="#cite_note-126">[124]</a> and are a bit over 2% presently. They are part of the wider <a href="/wiki/Indo-Caribbean" class="mw-redirect" title="Indo-Caribbean">Indo-Caribbean</a> community, which itself is a part of the global <a href="/wiki/Indian_diaspora" title="Indian diaspora">Indian diaspora</a>. East Indians began arriving in Belize after the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Rebellion_of_1857" title="Indian Rebellion of 1857">Indian Rebellion of 1857</a>, with the first ship with Indians arriving in 1858 as part of the <a href="/wiki/Indian_indenture_system" title="Indian indenture system">Indian indenture system</a> set up by the British government after slavery was abolished.<a href="#cite_note-auto-127">[125]</a> Initially coming in as indentured, many of them stayed on to work the sugar plantations and were joined by other Indian immigrants. Indians have spread out over many villages and towns primarily in the Corozal and Toledo districts and live in reasonably compact rural communities. While there are few descendants of the original Indian indentured immigrants of full Indian descent, many of their descendants intermarried with other ethnic groups in Belize, notably the <a href="/wiki/Belizean_Creole_people" title="Belizean Creole people">Creoles</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latin_American_Belizean" title="Hispanic and Latin American Belizean">Mestizos</a>. However, they are still identifiable through their physiognomy and are known as 'Hindus' or 'East Indians'.<a href="#cite_note-auto-127">[125]</a> This set of Indians were almost entirely composed of people from the <a href="/wiki/Bhojpuri_region" title="Bhojpuri region">Bhojpur</a> region, <a href="/wiki/Awadh" title="Awadh">Awadh</a> region, and other places in the <a href="/wiki/Hindi_Belt" title="Hindi Belt">Hindustani Belt</a> in <a href="/wiki/North_India" title="North India">North India</a>. A minority of indentured labourers were from <a href="/wiki/South_India" title="South India">South India</a> and other regions throughout <a href="/wiki/South_Asia" title="South Asia">South Asia</a>. Most Indians in urban areas are entrepreneurs and are invested in the import and retail industry. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="East_Asian_and_Arabs">East Asian and Arabs</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: East Asian and Arabs">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Ethnic_Chinese_in_Belize" title="Ethnic Chinese in Belize">Ethnic Chinese in Belize</a></div> The 20th century saw the arrival of more Asian settlers from <a href="/wiki/Mainland_China" title="Mainland China">Mainland China</a>, India, <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lebanon" title="Lebanon">Lebanon</a>. <a href="/wiki/Said_Musa" title="Said Musa">Said Musa</a>, the son of an immigrant from <a href="/wiki/Palestine_(region)" title="Palestine (region)">Palestine</a>, was the <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Belize" class="mw-redirect" title="Prime Minister of Belize">Prime Minister of Belize</a> from 1998 to 2008. <a href="/wiki/Central_American" class="mw-redirect" title="Central American">Central American</a> immigrants from <a href="/wiki/El_Salvador" title="El Salvador">El Salvador</a>, <a href="/wiki/Guatemala" title="Guatemala">Guatemala</a>, <a href="/wiki/Honduras" title="Honduras">Honduras</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nicaragua" title="Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> and expatriate Americans and Africans also began to settle in the country.<a href="#cite_note-2000_Belize_Census-121">[119]</a> 6,000 <a href="/wiki/Mexicans" title="Mexicans">Mexicans</a> live in Belize.<a href="#cite_note-128">[126]</a> The importation of Chinese workers to British Honduras was a response to economic shifts in the mid-19th century. As <a href="/wiki/Haematoxylum_campechianum" title="Haematoxylum campechianum">logwood</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mahogany" title="Mahogany">mahogany</a> production declined, <a href="/wiki/Sugarcane" title="Sugarcane">sugarcane</a> <a href="/wiki/Plantations" class="mw-redirect" title="Plantations">plantations</a> became of increasing importance. Recruitment of workers from China was facilitated by the colonial governor <a href="/wiki/John_Gardiner_Austin" title="John Gardiner Austin">John Gardiner Austin</a>, who had previously served as a labour broker in <a href="/wiki/Xiamen" title="Xiamen">Xiamen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fujian" title="Fujian">Fujian</a> on China's southeast coast.<a href="#cite_note-Robinson108-129">[127]</a> 474 Chinese workers thus arrived in British Honduras in 1865.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] They were sent to the north of the colony, but were reassigned to central and southern areas beginning in 1866 due to the large numbers of deaths and abscondments.<a href="#cite_note-Robinson108-129">[127]</a> By 1869, only 211 remained accounted for; 108 had died, while another 155 had sought refuge with the native peoples at <a href="/wiki/Chan_Santa_Cruz" title="Chan Santa Cruz">Chan Santa Cruz</a>. From the 1990s and presently, Belize has been a safe haven and many have integrated to Belizean society. Belize's <a href="/wiki/Immigrant_investor_programs" title="Immigrant investor programs">citizenship-by-investment</a> programme, which began in 1986, was a popular option among Chinese migrants in the 1990s.<a href="#cite_note-130">[128]</a> In response to the demand, the price rose from US$25,000 to US$50,000 in 1997. Hong Kong migrants, who lacked real <a href="/wiki/British_citizenship" class="mw-redirect" title="British citizenship">British citizenship</a> but only had <a href="/wiki/British_National_(Overseas)" title="British National (Overseas)">British National (Overseas)</a> status, sought to obtain <a href="/wiki/Belizean_passport" title="Belizean passport">Belizean passports</a> as an insurance policy in case conditions in their homeland went downhill after the <a href="/wiki/Transfer_of_sovereignty_over_Hong_Kong" class="mw-redirect" title="Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong">1997 resumption of sovereignty by China</a>. The East Asians and Arabs are an overwhelmingly urban population, with five-sixths living in cities, the highest proportion out of all tabulated ethnic groups. This is a slightly higher proportion than Garifuna people and Creoles, but contrasted sharply with East Indians, of whom roughly half live in rural areas. East Asians are big on the retail industry and fast food restaurant chains in Belize so are Arabs. Belizean Arabs are mostly found at Belize City and the towns in the islands and cayes. Belizean Arabs although a minority have contributed to politics and education throughout the history of Belize. Some influential Arab families are the Musas, Espat, Shoman, Chebat among others. Their influence on the People's United Party has made Belize an advocate to Palestine's right to self-determination. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Emigration,_immigration,_and_demographic_shifts">Emigration, immigration, and demographic shifts</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Emigration, immigration, and demographic shifts">edit</a>]</div> Creoles and other ethnic groups are emigrating mostly to the United States, but also to the United Kingdom and other developed nations for better opportunities. Based on the latest <a href="/wiki/US_Census" class="mw-redirect" title="US Census">US Census</a>, the number of Belizeans in the United States is approximately 160,000 (including 70,000 legal residents and naturalized citizens), consisting mainly of Creoles and Garinagu.<a href="#cite_note-131">[129]</a> Because of conflicts in neighbouring Central American nations, Hispanics or Latin American <a href="/wiki/Refugee" title="Refugee">refugees</a> from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras have fled to Belize in significant numbers during the 1980s, and have been significantly adding to Belize's Hispanic population. These two events have been changing the demographics of the nation for the last 30 years.<a href="#cite_note-paulglassman.com-132">[130]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Languages">Languages</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Languages">edit</a>]</div> <div class="notheme barbox tright" style="overflow-x: auto;"> <div style="border:1px solid silver; font-size:88%; padding:0.4em; width:auto; background: white; color: black;"> <table style="text-align:left; border-collapse:collapse; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr style="background:#ddd"><th style="text-align:center;" colspan="5">Languages in Belize</th></tr> <tr style="font-size:88%; height:4px;"> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; text-align:left;">Languages</td> <td style="width:100px; text-align:left;"></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; width:1em; text-align:right;">percent</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">English</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:darkgreen; width:80.9%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">80.9%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Spanish</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:red; width:62.8%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">62.8%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Creole</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:purple; width:44.6%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">44.6%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Mayan</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:black; width:10.5%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">10.5%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">German</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:orange; width:4.2%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">4.2%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Garifuna</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:darkblue; width:2.9%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">2.9%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Caribbean Hindustani/Hindi</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:brown; width:1.9%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">1.9%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Chinese</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:green; width:0.9%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">0.9%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Other</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:maroon; width:0.9%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">0.9%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">None</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:darkgray; width:0.2%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">0.2%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">American Sign Language</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:gray; width:0.3%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">0.3%</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Languages_of_Belize" title="Languages of Belize">Languages of Belize</a></div> <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> is the official language of Belize. This stems from the country being a former British colony. Belize is the only country in Central America with English as the official language. Also, English is the primary language of public education, government, and most media outlets. Although English is widely used, <a href="/wiki/Belizean_Creole" title="Belizean Creole">Belizean Creole</a> is spoken in several situations, whether informal, formal, social, or interethnic[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify">clarification needed</a>] dialogue, even in meetings of the House of Representatives. When a creole language exists alongside its <a href="/wiki/Lexifier" title="Lexifier">lexifier</a> language, as is the case in Belize, a continuum forms between the creole and the lexifier language. It is therefore difficult to substantiate or differentiate the number of Belize Creole speakers compared to English speakers. Creole might best be described as the <a href="/wiki/Lingua_franca" title="Lingua franca">lingua franca</a> of the nation.<a href="#cite_note-133">[131]</a> Approximately 52.9% of Belizeans self-identify as <a href="/wiki/Mestizo" title="Mestizo">Mestizo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hispanic" title="Hispanic">Hispanic</a>. When Belize was a British colony, <a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a> was banned in schools, but since then it has become widely spoken. <a href="/wiki/Spanglish" title="Spanglish">"Kitchen Spanish"</a> is an intermediate form of Spanish mixed with Belize Creole, spoken in the northern districts. Some good examples are <a href="/wiki/Corozal_Town" title="Corozal Town">Corozal</a> and <a href="/wiki/San_Pedro_Town" title="San Pedro Town">San Pedro</a>.<a href="#cite_note-ambergriscaye.com-123">[121]</a> Over half the population is <a href="/wiki/Multilingual" class="mw-redirect" title="Multilingual">multilingual</a>.<a href="#cite_note-134">[132]</a> Being a small, multiethnic state, surrounded by Spanish-speaking nations, the economic and social benefits from multilingualism are high.<a href="#cite_note-belize2011-135">[133]</a> Belize is also home to three <a href="/wiki/Mayan_languages" title="Mayan languages">Mayan languages</a>: <a href="/wiki/Q%27eqchi%27_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Q'eqchi' language">Q'eqchi'</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mopan_language" title="Mopan language">Mopan</a> (an <a href="/wiki/Endangered_language" title="Endangered language">endangered language</a>), and <a href="/wiki/Yucatec_Maya_language" title="Yucatec Maya language">Yucatec Maya</a>.<a href="#cite_note-136">[134]</a><a href="#cite_note-137">[135]</a><a href="#cite_note-138">[136]</a> Approximately 16,100 people speak the <a href="/wiki/Ta-Arawakan_languages" title="Ta-Arawakan languages">Arawakan-based</a> <a href="/wiki/Garifuna_language" title="Garifuna language">Garifuna language</a>,<a href="#cite_note-139">[137]</a> and 6,900 Mennonites in Belize speak mainly <a href="/wiki/Plautdietsch_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Plautdietsch language">Plautdietsch</a> while a minority of Mennonites speak <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_Dutch_language" title="Pennsylvania Dutch language">Pennsylvania Dutch</a>.<a href="#cite_note-140">[138]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Largest_cities">Largest cities</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Largest cities">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_Belize" title="List of municipalities in Belize">List of municipalities in Belize</a></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1219497266">.mw-parser-output .largestCities-table-background{background:#f9f9f9;color:#222}.mw-parser-output .largestCities-cell-background{background:#f0f0f0;color:#222}</style> <div> <table style="font-size:88%;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 100%; border: 1px solid darkgray;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="10" style="padding:0.3em 0.75em;"><div style="float:right; width:6em; height:2.6em"> </div><div style="float:left; width:6em; height:2.6em"> </div> <div style="height:2.6em;line-height:1.3em;">Largest cities or towns in Belize <div style="display:inline;font-weight:normal;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sib.org.bz/Portals/0/docs/publications/census/2010_Census_Report.pdf">Belize Population and Housing Census 2010</a></div></div> </th></tr> <tr> <th></th> <th>Rank </th> <th><a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Belize" class="mw-redirect" title="List of cities in Belize">Name</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Districts_of_Belize" title="Districts of Belize">District</a> </th> <th>Pop. </th> <th> </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="11" style="text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/File:Belize_City_Aerial_Shots.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Belize City"><img alt="Belize City" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Belize_City_Aerial_Shots.jpg/120px-Belize_City_Aerial_Shots.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Belize_City_Aerial_Shots.jpg/180px-Belize_City_Aerial_Shots.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Belize_City_Aerial_Shots.jpg/240px-Belize_City_Aerial_Shots.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Belize_City" title="Belize City">Belize City</a> <a href="/wiki/File:San_Ignacio_Laslovarga016.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="San Ignacio"><img alt="San Ignacio" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/San_Ignacio_Laslovarga016.JPG/120px-San_Ignacio_Laslovarga016.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/San_Ignacio_Laslovarga016.JPG/180px-San_Ignacio_Laslovarga016.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/San_Ignacio_Laslovarga016.JPG/240px-San_Ignacio_Laslovarga016.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a> <a href="/wiki/San_Ignacio,_Belize" title="San Ignacio, Belize">San Ignacio</a> </td> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">1</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Belize_City" title="Belize City">Belize City</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Belize_District" title="Belize District">Belize District</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">57,169 </td> <td rowspan="11" style="text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/File:Belmopan_Belize_View.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Belmopan"><img alt="Belmopan" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Belmopan_Belize_View.jpg/120px-Belmopan_Belize_View.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Belmopan_Belize_View.jpg/180px-Belmopan_Belize_View.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Belmopan_Belize_View.jpg/240px-Belmopan_Belize_View.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5184" data-file-height="3456" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Belmopan" title="Belmopan">Belmopan</a> <a href="/wiki/File:OWtownBZE.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Orange Walk Town"><img alt="Orange Walk Town" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/OWtownBZE.JPG/120px-OWtownBZE.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/OWtownBZE.JPG/180px-OWtownBZE.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/OWtownBZE.JPG/240px-OWtownBZE.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Orange_Walk_Town" title="Orange Walk Town">Orange Walk Town</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">2</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/San_Ignacio,_Belize" title="San Ignacio, Belize">San Ignacio</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Cayo_District" title="Cayo District">Cayo District</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">17,878 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">3</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Belmopan" title="Belmopan">Belmopan</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Cayo_District" title="Cayo District">Cayo District</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">13,939 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">4</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Orange_Walk_Town" title="Orange Walk Town">Orange Walk Town</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Orange_Walk_District" title="Orange Walk District">Orange Walk District</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">13,708 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">5</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/San_Pedro_Town" title="San Pedro Town">San Pedro Town</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Belize_District" title="Belize District">Belize District</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">11,767 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">6</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Corozal_Town" title="Corozal Town">Corozal Town</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Corozal_District" title="Corozal District">Corozal District</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">10,287 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">7</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Dangriga" title="Dangriga">Dangriga</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Stann_Creek_District" title="Stann Creek District">Stann Creek District</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">9,593 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">8</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Benque_Viejo_del_Carmen" title="Benque Viejo del Carmen">Benque Viejo del Carmen</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Cayo_District" title="Cayo District">Cayo District</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">6,140 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">9</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Ladyville" title="Ladyville">Ladyville</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Belize_District" title="Belize District">Belize District</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">5,458 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">10</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Punta_Gorda,_Belize" title="Punta Gorda, Belize">Punta Gorda</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Toledo_District" title="Toledo District">Toledo District</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">5,351 </td></tr> </tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Religion">Religion</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Religion">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Belize" title="Religion in Belize">Religion in Belize</a></div> According to the 2010 census,<a href="#cite_note-census2010-118">[116]</a> 40.1% of Belizeans are <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholics" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholics">Roman Catholics</a>, 31.8% are <a href="/wiki/Protestants" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestants">Protestants</a> (8.4% <a href="/wiki/Pentecostal" class="mw-redirect" title="Pentecostal">Pentecostal</a>; 5.4% <a href="/wiki/Adventist" class="mw-redirect" title="Adventist">Adventist</a>; 4.7% <a href="/wiki/Anglican" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglican">Anglican</a>; 3.7% <a href="/wiki/Mennonite" class="mw-redirect" title="Mennonite">Mennonite</a>; 3.6% <a href="/wiki/Baptist" class="mw-redirect" title="Baptist">Baptist</a>; 2.9% <a href="/wiki/Methodist" class="mw-redirect" title="Methodist">Methodist</a>; 2.8% <a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_Nazarene" title="Church of the Nazarene">Nazarene</a>), 1.7% are <a href="/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses" title="Jehovah's Witnesses">Jehovah's Witnesses</a>, 10.3% adhere to other religions (<a href="/wiki/Maya_religion" title="Maya religion">Maya religion</a>, <a href="/wiki/Garifuna_religion" class="mw-redirect" title="Garifuna religion">Garifuna religion</a>, <a href="/wiki/Obeah" title="Obeah">Obeah</a> and <a href="/wiki/Myalism" class="mw-redirect" title="Myalism">Myalism</a>, and minorities of <a href="/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints" title="The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints">the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hindus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhists</a>, <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Muslims</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%CA%BC%C3%AD_Faith" title="Baháʼí Faith">Baháʼís</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rastafarians" class="mw-redirect" title="Rastafarians">Rastafarians</a> and other) and 15.5% profess to be irreligious. <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:HRrubenFromWest.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/HRrubenFromWest.jpg/220px-HRrubenFromWest.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/HRrubenFromWest.jpg/330px-HRrubenFromWest.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/HRrubenFromWest.jpg/440px-HRrubenFromWest.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3688" data-file-height="2856" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Holy_Redeemer_Catholic_Parish,_Belize_City" title="Holy Redeemer Catholic Parish, Belize City">Holy Redeemer Catholic Parish, Belize City</a></figcaption></figure> According to PROLADES, Belize was 64.6% Roman Catholic, 27.8% Protestant, 7.6% Other in 1971.<a href="#cite_note-141">[139]</a> Until the late 1990s, Belize was <a href="/wiki/History_of_Roman_Catholicism_in_Belize" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Roman Catholicism in Belize">a Roman Catholic majority country</a>. Catholics formed 57% of the population in 1991, and dropped to 49% in 2000. The percentage of Roman Catholics in the population has been decreasing in the past few decades due to the growth of Protestant churches, other religions and non-religious people.<a href="#cite_note-142">[140]</a> In addition to Catholics, there has always been <a href="/wiki/Protestantism_in_Belize" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestantism in Belize">a large accompanying Protestant minority</a>. It was brought by <a href="/wiki/British_people" title="British people">British</a>, <a href="/wiki/German_people" class="mw-redirect" title="German people">German</a>, and other settlers to the British colony of <a href="/wiki/British_Honduras" title="British Honduras">British Honduras</a>. From the beginning, it was largely <a href="/wiki/Anglican" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglican">Anglican</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mennonite" class="mw-redirect" title="Mennonite">Mennonite</a> in nature. The Protestant community in Belize experienced a large <a href="/wiki/Pentecostal" class="mw-redirect" title="Pentecostal">Pentecostal</a> and <a href="/wiki/Seventh-Day_Adventist" class="mw-redirect" title="Seventh-Day Adventist">Seventh-Day Adventist</a> influx tied to the recent spread of various <a href="/wiki/Evangelical_Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="Evangelical Protestant">Evangelical Protestant</a> denominations throughout <a href="/wiki/Latin_America" title="Latin America">Latin America</a>. Geographically speaking, <a href="/wiki/Mennonites_in_Belize" title="Mennonites in Belize">German Mennonites</a> live mostly in the rural districts of Cayo and Orange Walk. The <a href="/wiki/Greek_Orthodox_Church" title="Greek Orthodox Church">Greek Orthodox Church</a> has a presence in <a href="/wiki/Santa_Elena,_Belize" class="mw-redirect" title="Santa Elena, Belize">Santa Elena</a>.<a href="#cite_note-143">[141]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Association_of_Religion_Data_Archives" title="Association of Religion Data Archives">Association of Religion Data Archives</a> estimates there were 7,776 Baháʼís in Belize in 2005, or 2.5% of the national population. Their estimates suggest this is the highest proportion of Baháʼís in any country.<a href="#cite_note-144">[142]</a> Their data also states that the Baháʼí Faith is the second most common religion in Belize, following Christianity.<a href="#cite_note-145">[143]</a> Hinduism is followed by most Indian immigrants. <a href="/wiki/Sikhs" title="Sikhs">Sikhs</a> were the first <a href="/wiki/Indians_in_Belize" class="mw-redirect" title="Indians in Belize">Indian immigrants to Belize (not counting indentured workers)</a>, and the former <a href="/wiki/Chief_Justice_of_Belize" title="Chief Justice of Belize">Chief Justice of Belize</a> <a href="/wiki/George_Singh" title="George Singh">George Singh</a> was the son of a <a href="/wiki/Sikh_diaspora" title="Sikh diaspora">Sikh immigrant</a>,<a href="#cite_note-News519980202-146">[144]</a><a href="#cite_note-SGV-147">[145]</a> there was also a Sikh cabinet minister. Muslims claim that there have been Muslims in Belize since the 16th century having been brought over from Africa as slaves, but there are no sources for that claim.<a href="#cite_note-official-148">[146]</a> The modern Muslim population grew from the 1980s. Muslims numbered 243 in 2000 and 577 in 2010 according to the official statistics.<a href="#cite_note-149">[147]</a> and account for 0.16 percent of the population. A mosque is at the Islamic Mission of Belize (IMB), also known as the Muslim Community of Belize. Another mosque, Masjid Al-Falah, officially opened in 2008 in Belize City.<a href="#cite_note-150">[148]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Health">Health</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: Health">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Healthcare_in_Belize" title="Healthcare in Belize">Healthcare in Belize</a></div> Belize has a high prevalence of communicable diseases such as respiratory diseases and intestinal illnesses.<a href="#cite_note-MoH-151">[149]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Education">Education</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: Education">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Education_in_Belize" title="Education in Belize">Education in Belize</a></div> A number of kindergartens, secondary, and tertiary schools in Belize provide education for students—mostly funded by the government. Belize has about a dozen <a href="/wiki/List_of_universities_in_Belize" title="List of universities in Belize">tertiary level institutions</a>, the most prominent of which is the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Belize" title="University of Belize">University of Belize</a>, which evolved out of the University College of Belize founded in 1986. Before that <a href="/wiki/St._John%27s_College,_Belize" title="St. John's College, Belize">St. John's College</a>, founded in 1877, dominated the tertiary education field. The Open Campus of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_the_West_Indies" title="University of the West Indies">University of the West Indies</a> has a site in Belize.<a href="#cite_note-152">[150]</a> It also has campuses in <a href="/wiki/Barbados" title="Barbados">Barbados</a>, <a href="/wiki/Trinidad" title="Trinidad">Trinidad</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Jamaica" title="Jamaica">Jamaica</a>. The government of Belize contributes financially to the UWI. Education in Belize is compulsory between the ages of 6 and 14 years. As of 2010<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit">[update]</a>, the literacy rate in Belize was estimated at 79.7%,<a href="#cite_note-census2010-118">[116]</a> one of the <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_literacy_rate" title="List of countries by literacy rate">lowest in the Western Hemisphere</a>. The educational policy is currently following the "Education Sector Strategy 2011–2016", which sets three objectives for the years to come: Improving access, quality, and governance of the education system by providing technical and <a href="/wiki/Vocational_education" title="Vocational education">vocational education</a> and training.<a href="#cite_note-153">[151]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Crime">Crime</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: Crime">edit</a>]</div> Belize has moderate rates of violent crime.<a href="#cite_note-state1-154">[152]</a> The majority of violence in Belize stems from gang activity, which includes trafficking of drugs and persons, protecting drug smuggling routes, and securing territory for drug dealing.<a href="#cite_note-police2006-155">[153]</a> In 2023, 87 murders were recorded in Belize, giving the country a homicide rate of 19.7 murders per 100,000 inhabitants,<a href="#cite_note-bco2024-156">[154]</a> lower than the neighbouring countries of Mexico and <a href="/wiki/Honduras" title="Honduras">Honduras</a>, but higher than <a href="/wiki/Guatemala" title="Guatemala">Guatemala</a> and <a href="/wiki/El_Salvador" title="El Salvador">El Salvador</a>.<a href="#cite_note-InSight-157">[155]</a> <a href="/wiki/Belize_District" title="Belize District">Belize District</a> (containing Belize City) had the most murders by far compared to all the other districts. In 2023, 66% of the murders occurred in the Belize District.<a href="#cite_note-bco2024-156">[154]</a> The violence in Belize City (especially the southern part of the city) is largely due to gang warfare.<a href="#cite_note-state1-154">[152]</a> In 2023, there were 34 reported cases of rape, 170 robberies, 628 burglaries, and 118 cases of theft.<a href="#cite_note-bco2024-156">[154]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Social_structure">Social structure</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: Social structure">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Belizean_society" title="Belizean society">Belizean society</a></div> Belize's social structure is marked by enduring differences in the distribution of wealth, power, and prestige. Because of the small size of Belize's population and the intimate scale of social relations, the social distance between the rich and the poor, while significant, is nowhere as vast as in other <a href="/wiki/Caribbean" title="Caribbean">Caribbean</a> and <a href="/wiki/Central_America" title="Central America">Central American</a> societies, such as <a href="/wiki/Jamaica" title="Jamaica">Jamaica</a> and <a href="/wiki/El_Salvador" title="El Salvador">El Salvador</a>. Belize lacks the violent class and racial conflict that has figured so prominently in the social life of its Central American neighbours.<a href="#cite_note-sbs-158">[156]</a> Political and economic power remain vested in the hands of the local elite. The sizeable middle group is composed of peoples of different ethnic backgrounds. This middle group does not constitute a unified <a href="/wiki/Social_class" title="Social class">social class</a>, but rather a number of middle-class and <a href="/wiki/Working-class" class="mw-redirect" title="Working-class">working-class</a> groups, loosely oriented around shared dispositions toward education, cultural respectability, and possibilities for upward social mobility. These beliefs, and the social practices they engender, help distinguish the middle group from the grass roots majority of the <a href="/wiki/Belizean_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Belizean people">Belizean people</a>.<a href="#cite_note-sbs-158">[156]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Women">Women</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=44" title="Edit section: Women">edit</a>]</div> In 2021, the <a href="/wiki/World_Economic_Forum" title="World Economic Forum">World Economic Forum</a> ranked Belize 90th out of 156 countries in its <a href="/wiki/Global_Gender_Gap_Report" title="Global Gender Gap Report">Global Gender Gap Report</a>. Of all the countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, Belize ranked fourth from last. It ranked higher in the categories of "economic participation and opportunity" and "health and survival", but very low in "political empowerment".<a href="#cite_note-ggr-159">[157]</a> In 2019, the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">UN</a> gave Belize a <a href="/wiki/Gender_Inequality_Index" title="Gender Inequality Index">Gender Inequality Index</a> score of 0.415, ranking it 97th out of 162 countries.<a href="#cite_note-hdr-160">[158]</a> As of 2019<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit">[update]</a>, 49.9% of women in Belize participate in the workforce, compared to 80.6% of men.<a href="#cite_note-hdr-160">[158]</a> 11.1% of the seats in Belize's <a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(Belize)" title="National Assembly (Belize)">National Assembly</a> are filled by women.<a href="#cite_note-hdr-160">[158]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture">Culture</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=45" title="Edit section: Culture">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Culture_of_Belize" title="Culture of Belize">Culture of Belize</a></div> In Belizean folklore, there are the legends of <a href="/wiki/Lang_Bobi_Suzi" title="Lang Bobi Suzi">Lang Bobi Suzi</a>, <a href="/wiki/La_Llorona" title="La Llorona">La Llorona</a>, <a href="/wiki/La_Sucia" class="mw-redirect" title="La Sucia">La Sucia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tata_Duende" title="Tata Duende">Tata Duende</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anansi" title="Anansi">Anansi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Xtabay" title="Xtabay">Xtabay</a>, Sisimite and the <a href="/wiki/Cadejo" title="Cadejo">cadejo</a>. Most of the <a href="/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Belize" title="Public holidays in Belize">public holidays in Belize</a> are traditional Commonwealth and <a href="/wiki/Liturgical_year" title="Liturgical year">Christian holidays</a>, although some are specific to Belizean culture such as <a href="/wiki/Garifuna_Settlement_Day" title="Garifuna Settlement Day">Garifuna Settlement Day</a> and Heroes and Benefactors' Day, formerly <a href="/wiki/Baron_Bliss_Day" class="mw-redirect" title="Baron Bliss Day">Baron Bliss Day</a>.<a href="#cite_note-161">[159]</a> In addition, the month of September is considered a <a href="/wiki/September_Celebrations_of_Belize" class="mw-redirect" title="September Celebrations of Belize">special time of national celebration</a> called September Celebrations with a whole month of activities on a special events calendar. Besides <a href="/wiki/Independence_Day" class="mw-redirect" title="Independence Day">Independence Day</a> and St. George's Caye Day, Belizeans also celebrate <a href="/wiki/Carnival" title="Carnival">Carnival</a> during September, which typically includes several events spread across multiple days, with the main event being the Carnival Road March, usually held the Saturday before 10 September. In some areas of Belize, it is celebrated at the traditional time before <a href="/wiki/Lent" title="Lent">Lent</a> (in February).<a href="#cite_note-162">[160]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cuisine">Cuisine</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=46" title="Edit section: Cuisine">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Cuisine_of_Belize" class="mw-redirect" title="Cuisine of Belize">Cuisine of Belize</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-More_citations_needed plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This article needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a>. 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Find sources: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?as_eq=wikipedia&q=%22Belize%22">"Belize"</a> – <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&q=%22Belize%22+-wikipedia&tbs=ar:1">news</a> · <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?&q=%22Belize%22&tbs=bkt:s&tbm=bks">newspapers</a> · <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&q=%22Belize%22+-wikipedia">books</a> · <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Belize%22">scholar</a> · <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=%22Belize%22&acc=on&wc=on">JSTOR</a> (November 2020) (<a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a>)</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rice_and_Beans,_Stew_Chicken_and_Potato_Salad_-_Belize.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Rice_and_Beans%2C_Stew_Chicken_and_Potato_Salad_-_Belize.jpg/220px-Rice_and_Beans%2C_Stew_Chicken_and_Potato_Salad_-_Belize.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Rice_and_Beans%2C_Stew_Chicken_and_Potato_Salad_-_Belize.jpg/330px-Rice_and_Beans%2C_Stew_Chicken_and_Potato_Salad_-_Belize.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Rice_and_Beans%2C_Stew_Chicken_and_Potato_Salad_-_Belize.jpg/440px-Rice_and_Beans%2C_Stew_Chicken_and_Potato_Salad_-_Belize.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1824" data-file-height="1368" /></a><figcaption>Rice and beans (with coconut milk), stewed chicken and potato salad. An inter-ethnic staple meal.</figcaption></figure> Belizean cuisine is a vibrant blend that reflects the country's multicultural makeup, incorporating elements from Mestizo, Creole, Garifuna, Maya, and immigrant influences, including Chinese and Indian traditions. This unique combination makes Belizean food an amalgamation of flavours from <a href="/wiki/Central_America" title="Central America">Central America</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Caribbean" title="Caribbean">Caribbean</a>, and even further afield, producing dishes that are at once familiar to these areas yet distinctly Belizean.<a href="#cite_note-:0-163">[161]</a><a href="#cite_note-:1-164">[162]</a> <a href="/wiki/Breakfast" title="Breakfast">Breakfast</a> is often hearty, featuring staples like bread, flour <a href="/wiki/Tortilla" title="Tortilla">tortillas</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Fry_jack" title="Fry jack">fry jacks</a> (fried dough pieces), which are typically paired with cheese, refried beans, and eggs, along with coffee or tea. Street vendors frequently offer breakfast options such as tacos and <a href="/wiki/Meat_pie" title="Meat pie">meat pies</a>, while a midday meal, known locally as "dinner," serves as the main meal of the day. Traditional midday dishes include <a href="/wiki/Rice_and_beans" title="Rice and beans">rice and beans</a> (with or without coconut milk), stewed chicken, <a href="/wiki/Tamale" title="Tamale">tamales</a>, <a href="/wiki/Escabeche" title="Escabeche">escabeche</a> (an onion soup), and <a href="/wiki/Empanada#Belize" title="Empanada">panades</a> (fried corn shells with beans or fish).<a href="#cite_note-:1-164">[162]</a><a href="#cite_note-:2-165">[163]</a> In rural areas, meals often centre around locally grown <a href="/wiki/Maize" title="Maize">maize</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bean" title="Bean">beans</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Cucurbita" title="Cucurbita">squash</a>, particularly in Maya communities, whereas <a href="/wiki/Garifuna#Food" title="Garifuna">Garifuna cuisine</a> is known for its Afro-Caribbean roots and heavily features seafood and <a href="/wiki/Cassava" title="Cassava">cassava</a>-based dishes like ereba (cassava bread). These local ingredients and cooking methods provide a deep connection to the land and traditions. This culinary diversity is supported by Belize's abundant agriculture, which allows for a wide variety of fresh ingredients, from tropical fruits to seafood.<a href="#cite_note-:0-163">[161]</a><a href="#cite_note-:2-165">[163]</a> The nation abounds with restaurants and fast food establishments that are fairly affordable. Local fruits are quite common, but raw vegetables from the markets less so. Mealtime is a communion for families and schools and some businesses close at midday for lunch, reopening later in the afternoon. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Media">Media</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=47" title="Edit section: Media">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_Belize" title="List of newspapers in Belize">List of newspapers in Belize</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_radio_stations_in_Belize" title="List of radio stations in Belize">List of radio stations in Belize</a>, and <a href="/wiki/List_of_television_stations_in_Belize" title="List of television stations in Belize">List of television stations in Belize</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Music">Music</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=48" title="Edit section: Music">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Music_of_Belize" title="Music of Belize">Music of Belize</a></div> In recent years, Latin music, including <a href="/wiki/Reggaeton" title="Reggaeton">reggaeton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Banda_music" title="Banda music">banda</a>, has experienced a surge in popularity in Belize, alongside the traditional genres of punta and brukdown. This growing trend reflects the influence of neighbouring Latin American countries and the cultural connections that exist within the region. The rise in popularity of Latin music in Belize demonstrates the vibrant and diverse musical landscape of the country, showcasing the ability of music to transcend borders and bring people together. <a href="/wiki/Punta" title="Punta">Punta</a> is distinctly Caribbean, and is sometimes said to be ready for international popularization like similarly descended styles (<a href="/wiki/Reggae" title="Reggae">reggae</a>, <a href="/wiki/Calypso_music" title="Calypso music">calypso</a>, <a href="/wiki/Merengue_(music)" class="mw-redirect" title="Merengue (music)">merengue</a>). <a href="/wiki/Brukdown" title="Brukdown">Brukdown</a> is a modern style of Belizean music related to <a href="/wiki/Calypso_music" title="Calypso music">calypso</a>. It evolved out of the music and dance of loggers, especially a form called <a href="/wiki/Buru" title="Buru">buru</a>. <a href="/wiki/Reggae" title="Reggae">Reggae</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dance_hall" title="Dance hall">dance hall</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Soca_music" title="Soca music">soca</a> imported from Trinidad, Jamaica, and the rest of the <a href="/wiki/West_Indies" title="West Indies">West Indies</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rapping" title="Rapping">rap</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hip-hop" class="mw-redirect" title="Hip-hop">hip-hop</a>, <a href="/wiki/Heavy_metal_music" title="Heavy metal music">heavy metal</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Rock_music" title="Rock music">rock music</a> from the United States, are also popular among the youth of Belize. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sports">Sports</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=49" title="Edit section: Sports">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Sport_in_Belize" title="Sport in Belize">Sport in Belize</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Shalini_Zabaneh,_Cyclist,_Belize.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Shalini_Zabaneh%2C_Cyclist%2C_Belize.jpg/220px-Shalini_Zabaneh%2C_Cyclist%2C_Belize.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Shalini_Zabaneh%2C_Cyclist%2C_Belize.jpg/330px-Shalini_Zabaneh%2C_Cyclist%2C_Belize.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Shalini_Zabaneh%2C_Cyclist%2C_Belize.jpg/440px-Shalini_Zabaneh%2C_Cyclist%2C_Belize.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="533" /></a><figcaption>Accomplished Belizean cyclist Shalini Zabaneh</figcaption></figure> The major sports in Belize are <a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">football</a>, <a href="/wiki/Basketball" title="Basketball">basketball</a>, <a href="/wiki/Volleyball" title="Volleyball">volleyball</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cycle_sport" title="Cycle sport">cycling</a>, with smaller followings of <a href="/wiki/Boat_racing" title="Boat racing">boat racing</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sport_of_athletics" title="Sport of athletics">athletics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Softball" title="Softball">softball</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cricket" title="Cricket">cricket</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rugby_football" title="Rugby football">rugby</a>. <a href="/wiki/Fishing" title="Fishing">Fishing</a> is also popular in coastal areas of Belize. The <a href="/wiki/Cross_Country_Cycling_Classic" title="Cross Country Cycling Classic">Cross Country Cycling Classic</a>, also known as the "cross country" race or the Holy Saturday Cross Country Cycling Classic, is considered one of the most important Belize sports events. This one-day sports event is meant for amateur cyclists but has also gained worldwide popularity. The history of Cross Country Cycling Classic in Belize dates back to the period when <a href="/wiki/Monrad_Metzgen" title="Monrad Metzgen">Monrad Metzgen</a> picked up the idea from a small village on the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Highway_(Belize)" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern Highway (Belize)">Northern Highway</a> (now Phillip Goldson Highway). The people from this village used to cover long distances on their bicycles to attend the weekly game of cricket. He improvised on this observation by creating a sporting event on the difficult terrain of the <a href="/wiki/George_Price_Highway" title="George Price Highway">Western Highway</a>, which was then poorly built. Another major annual sporting event in Belize is the <a href="/wiki/La_Ruta_Maya_Belize_River_Challenge" class="mw-redirect" title="La Ruta Maya Belize River Challenge">La Ruta Maya Belize River Challenge</a>, a 4-day <a href="/wiki/Canoe_marathon" title="Canoe marathon">canoe marathon</a> held each year in March. The race runs from <a href="/wiki/San_Ignacio,_Belize" title="San Ignacio, Belize">San Ignacio</a> to <a href="/wiki/Belize_City" title="Belize City">Belize City</a>, a distance of 290 kilometres (180 mi).<a href="#cite_note-Peddicord-166">[164]</a> On Easter day, citizens of Dangriga participate in a yearly fishing tournament. First, second, and third prize are awarded based on a scoring combination of size, species, and number. The tournament is broadcast over local radio stations, and prize money is awarded to the winners. The <a href="/wiki/Belize_national_basketball_team" class="mw-redirect" title="Belize national basketball team">Belize national basketball team</a> is the only national team that has achieved major victories internationally. The team won the 1998 CARICOM Men's Basketball Championship, held at the Civic Centre in Belize City, and subsequently participated in the 1999 Centrobasquet Tournament in Havana. The national team finished seventh of eight teams after winning only 1 game despite playing close all the way. In a return engagement at the 2000 CARICOM championship in Barbados, Belize placed fourth. Shortly thereafter, Belize moved to the Central American region and won the Central American Games championship in 2001. The team has failed to duplicate this success, most recently finishing with a 2–4 record in the 2006 COCABA championship. The team finished second in the 2009 COCABA tournament in Cancun, Mexico where it went 3–0 in group play. Belize won its opening match in the Centrobasquet Tournament, 2010, defeating Trinidad and Tobago, but lost badly to Mexico in a rematch of the COCABA final. A tough win over Cuba set Belize in position to advance, but they fell to Puerto Rico in their final match and failed to qualify. <a href="/wiki/Simone_Biles" title="Simone Biles">Simone Biles</a>, the winner of four gold medals in the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics is a dual citizen of the United States and of Belize,<a href="#cite_note-Gazette-167">[165]</a> which she considers her second home.<a href="#cite_note-168">[166]</a> Biles is of Belizean-American descent.<a href="#cite_note-Laymon-169">[167]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="National_symbols">National symbols</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=50" title="Edit section: National symbols">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Prosthechea_cochleata_-_panoramio.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Prosthechea_cochleata_-_panoramio.jpg/220px-Prosthechea_cochleata_-_panoramio.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Prosthechea_cochleata_-_panoramio.jpg/330px-Prosthechea_cochleata_-_panoramio.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Prosthechea_cochleata_-_panoramio.jpg/440px-Prosthechea_cochleata_-_panoramio.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3072" data-file-height="2304" /></a><figcaption>A black orchid flower (<a href="/wiki/Prosthechea_cochleata" title="Prosthechea cochleata">Prosthechea cochleata</a>)</figcaption></figure> The national flower of Belize is the black orchid (<a href="/wiki/Prosthechea_cochleata" title="Prosthechea cochleata">Prosthechea cochleata</a>, also known as Encyclia cochleata). The national tree is the <a href="/wiki/Mahogany" title="Mahogany">mahogany</a> tree (<a href="/wiki/Swietenia_macrophylla" title="Swietenia macrophylla">Swietenia macrophylla</a>), which inspired the national motto Sub Umbra Floreo, which means "Under the shade I flourish". The national ground-dwelling animal is the <a href="/wiki/Baird%27s_tapir" title="Baird's tapir">Baird's tapir</a> and the national bird is the keel-billed toucan (<a href="/wiki/Ramphastos_sulphuratus" class="mw-redirect" title="Ramphastos sulphuratus">Ramphastos sulphuratus</a>).<a href="#cite_note-symbols-170">[168]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=51" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output 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title="Portal:Belize">Belize portal</a></li><li class="portalbox-entry"><img alt="map" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Relief_Map_of_Caribbean.png/32px-Relief_Map_of_Caribbean.png" decoding="async" width="32" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Relief_Map_of_Caribbean.png/48px-Relief_Map_of_Caribbean.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Relief_Map_of_Caribbean.png/64px-Relief_Map_of_Caribbean.png 2x" data-file-width="891" data-file-height="561" /><a href="/wiki/Portal:Caribbean" title="Portal:Caribbean">Caribbean portal</a></li><li class="portalbox-entry"><a href="/wiki/File:Age_of_consent_-_Central_America.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Age_of_consent_-_Central_America.svg/32px-Age_of_consent_-_Central_America.svg.png" decoding="async" width="32" height="26" class="mw-file-element" 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"Mud" is rendered as lukʼ in the <a href="/wiki/Yucatecan_languages" title="Yucatecan languages">Yucatecan languages</a>, while "water" is rendered as jaʼ, ja, or ha.<a href="#cite_note-Restall-21">[21]</a><a href="#cite_note-Dienhart-22">[22]</a><a href="#cite_note-Hofling-23">[23]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-52"><a href="#cite_ref-52">^</a> In April 2019, a media outlet showed video of Guatemalan president Jimmy Morales showing students how to draw Guatemala's map to include all of Belize, reflecting his country's claim.<a href="#cite_note-51">[50]</a> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Belize&action=edit&section=53" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-sib.org.bz-1"><a 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href="/wiki/Pitcairn_Islands" title="Pitcairn Islands">Pitcairn Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Helena,_Ascension_and_Tristan_da_Cunha" title="Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha">Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Georgia_and_the_South_Sandwich_Islands" title="South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands">South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turks_and_Caicos_Islands" title="Turks and Caicos Islands">Turks and Caicos Islands</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://thecommonwealth.org/our-member-countries">Commonwealth Secretariat – Member Countries</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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