Belize
- Capital
- Belmopan
- Population
- 360,000
- Area
- 22,966 km²
- Region
- Central America
- Languages
- Belizean Creole, English, Spanish
- Currency
- Belize dollar ($)
- Demonym
- Belizean
- UN member
- Yes
Gross Domestic Product — the total market value of all goods and services produced in a year, at current prices.
GDP divided by population — a rough measure of average economic output per person.
Years a newborn would live if current mortality patterns held throughout its life.
Share of the population that used the internet in the last three months.
Total natural-resource rents (oil, gas, mineral, forest) as a share of GDP.
From the great Maya cities of Caracol, Xunantunich and Lamanai, through the logwood and mahogany camps of the British Baymen, the slavery on which they rested and the Creole, Garifuna, Maya and Mestizo society that grew up around them, to the colony of British Honduras and independence as Belize on 21 September 1981 — its frontier still claimed by Guatemala before the International Court of Justice.
Pilot a cinematic, sourced journey through its eras — moment by moment.