Map of Belize

Belize is located in North America. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 17.2° N, 88.8° W. It shares land borders with 2 countries — Guatemala and Mexico — and also has its own coastline. Within North America, a continent of 23 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, Belize is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Belize shares land frontiers with the following 2 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Belize covers about 22,966 km² (8,867 sq mi). That makes it the 148th-largest country in the world by area and the 12th-largest in North America, larger by area than 11 of the continent’s 23 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 417,634, the 172nd-largest in the world and the 15th-largest in North America, accounting for about 0.1% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Belize has an average population density of about 18 people per km². Among the 23 countries of North America it stands 15th by population and 12th by area.

The seat of government is Belmopan, and the official currency is the Belize dollar (BZD, $), and the main official languages are Belizean Creole, English and Spanish. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC-06:00.

Belize carries the ISO country codes BZ and BLZ, dials on the international calling code +501 and uses the .bz internet domain.

Belize shares its land borders with 2 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Mexico (capital Mexico City, about 130,575,786 people) and Guatemala (capital Guatemala City, about 18,079,810 people).

By area, Belize is larger than 0 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 17.2° N, 88.8° W and opens at zoom level 7, framing Belize within North America. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Belmopan. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Belize lies about 1,915 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Belize keeps a single standard time zone, UTC-06:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit -06:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Belize dollar (BZD, $).

The official languages are Belizean Creole, English and Spanish, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +501 and websites commonly use the .bz internet domain.

In short, Belize is a coastal country in North America, sharing land borders with 2 countries. Its capital is Belmopan. Belize has a population of about 417,634 and covers around 22,966 km² (8,867 sq mi), ranking it 172nd in the world by population and 148th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Belize.

The flag of Belize has a royal blue field with a thin red horizontal band at the top and bottom of the field and the national coat of arms in the center.

The flag of Belize is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.