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ID: 1013040
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1013040
Record Type:
administrative
Belmopan (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 17 13 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 17.2167
decimal degrees
Long: 088 48 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -88.8000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located near Roaring Creek on Belize River; inland site chosen for new capital in 1961 after Hurricane Hattie damaged nation; construction began in 1966 with funds from a United Kingdom grant; government offices moved to capital in 1970.
Names:
Belmopan
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Belize
(nation) (
P
)
............
Cayo
(national district) (
P
)
................
Belmopan
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
city (
C
)
national capital (
C
)
............
since 1961
administrative center (
H
)
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Belize
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, North and Central America) [7005346]
Sources and Contributors:
Belmopan..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 82
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
25
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 82
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
25
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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