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title: "Belize — capital, area, population and currency"
description: "Belize: capital Belmopan, area 22,966 km², population 422,924 (2025), currency Belize dollar. Languages, time zones and calling code."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country/belize/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Belize

**Belize: Capital Belmopan**

22,966 km² · 422,924 people (2025) · Belize dollar

The Belize Barrier Reef is the second-longest reef system in the world after Australia's, running about 300 km. The Great Blue Hole in its middle is a 318 m-wide, 124 m-deep collapsed cave, flooded when sea levels rose after the last ice age. Over sixty percent of the country is forest.

## The facts

- **Capital:** Belmopan
- **Largest city:** Belize City
- **Area:** 22,966 km² — 8,867 sq mi
- **Population:** 422,924 (2025)
- **Density:** 18.4 people per km²
- **Currency:** Belize dollar (BZD, $)
- **Official language:** English
- **Time zone:** UTC-06:00
- **Calling code:** +501
- **Drives on the:** right
- **ISO codes:** BZ · BLZ
- **Continent:** North America

## How it compares

- **By area:** 149 of 200
- **By population:** 174 of 200

> Population is the only figure on this page that dates — it is a 2025 estimate and will drift. Area, capital, currency, languages, calling code and driving side change rarely or never.

## Countries of a similar size

| Country | Area (km²) | Population |
| --- | --- | --- |
| North Macedonia | 25,713 | 1,820,909 |
| Djibouti | 23,200 | 1,184,076 |
| Belize ← | 22,966 | 422,924 |
| Israel | 21,937 | 10,122,800 |
| El Salvador | 21,041 | 6,365,503 |

## Common questions

### What is the capital of Belize?

Belmopan

### What currency does Belize use?

The Belize dollar (BZD).

### How big is Belize?

22,966 km², or 8,867 square miles — 149 of 200 by area.

### Which side of the road does Belize drive on?

The right.

## Related pages

- [North Macedonia](https://atoneplace.net/country/north-macedonia/)
- [Djibouti](https://atoneplace.net/country/djibouti/)
- [Israel](https://atoneplace.net/country/israel/)
- [El Salvador](https://atoneplace.net/country/el-salvador/)
- [United States](https://atoneplace.net/country/united-states/)
- [Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country/mexico/)
- [Canada](https://atoneplace.net/country/canada/)
- [Guatemala](https://atoneplace.net/country/guatemala/)
- [Haiti](https://atoneplace.net/country/haiti/)
- [Dominican Republic](https://atoneplace.net/country/dominican-republic/)
- [Honduras](https://atoneplace.net/country/honduras/)
- [Cuba](https://atoneplace.net/country/cuba/)

## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]