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ID: 1013040
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1013040

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Belmopan (inhabited place)  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:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Belize (nation)  ........  Belize (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Cayo (national district)  ............  Cayo (national district) (P)
Hierarchy of Belmopan (inhabited place)  ................  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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