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Belize (nation) |
Coordinates: |
Lat: 17 15 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 17.2500 decimal degrees |
Long: 088 45 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -88.7500 decimal degrees |
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Note: Mayan culture flourished 300 BCE-900 CE; Cortés probably crossed area in 1524, though not settled by Spanish; settled by English seamen in mid-17th century; Africans were brought here as slaves for logging industry; Guatemala claims the territory; official language is English, though Spanish and Mayan dialects are also spoken. |
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Belize (preferred,C,V,O,English-P,U,N)
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............ | since 1981 |
Belize (Rundi)
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Belize (Somali)
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Belize (Malagasy)
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Belize (Indonesian)
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Belize (Javanese)
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Belize (Ganda (Ugandan language))
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Belize (Croatian)
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Belize (Magyar (Hungarian))
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Belize (Danish)
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Belize (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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Belize (Finnish)
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Belize (Swedish)
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Belize (Polish)
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Belize (Portuguese)
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Belize (Romanian)
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Belize (Slovak)
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Belize (Slovene)
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Belize (Catalan)
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Belize (Basque)
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Belize (Aragonese)
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Belize (Welsh)
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Belize (German)
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Belize (Low German)
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Belize (Breton)
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Belize (Czech)
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Belize (Dutch)
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Belize (Afrikaans)
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Belize (French-P,U,N)
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Belize (Italian)
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Belize (Ligurian)
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Belize (Piemontese)
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Belize (Estonian)
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Belize (Greenlandic)
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Belize (Turkish)
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Belize (Occitan)
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Belize (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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Belize (Romansh)
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Belize (Kikuyu)
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Belize (Luba-Katanga)
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Belize (Malay (macrolanguage))
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Belize (Norwegian)
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Belize (Pampanga)
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Belize (Northern Sami)
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Belize (Shona)
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Belize (Swahili (generic))
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Belize (Arpitan)
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Belize (Ido)
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Belize (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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Belice (C,V,Spanish-P,U,N)
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Belice (Asturian)
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Belice (Galician)
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Balize (C,V)
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Белиз (C,V,Tatar)
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Белиз (Tajik)
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Белиз (Chuvash)
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Белиз (Bashkir)
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Белиз (Chechen)
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Белиз (Mongolian)
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Белиз (Kazakh)
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Белиз (Kyrgyz)
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Белиз (Bulgarian)
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Белиз (Russian-P,U)
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Белиз (Ossetian/Ossetic)
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Белиз (Yakut)
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Белиз (Russia Buriat)
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Белиз (Western Mari)
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伯利兹 (C,V,Chinese-P,U)
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ب يَز (C,V,Arabic-P,U)
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BLZ (C,O,ISO3L)
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BZ (C,O,ISO2L)
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ISO084 (C,O,ISO3N)
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BH (C,O,FIPS)
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Belizean (C,O,English,U,A)
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An Bheilís (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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Beilise (C,U,Scots Gaelic)
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Beles (C,U,Pitcairn-Norfolk)
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Belėzos (C,U,Samogitian)
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Belice - Belize (C,U,Galician)
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Belici (C,U,Extremaduran)
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Beliis (C,U,Wolof)
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Beliise (C,U,Fulah)
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Beliiz (C,U,Oromo)
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Belis (C,U,Ilocano)
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Belis (Faroese)
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Belis (Piemontese)
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Belîs (C,U,Welsh)
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Belís (C,U,Icelandic)
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Bélis (C,U,Sunda)
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Belisa (C,U,Cornish)
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Belisa (Central Bikol)
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Belisän (C,U,Volapük)
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Belise (C,U,Somali)
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Belise (Tagalog)
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Belise (Bosnian)
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Bẹ̀lísè (C,U,Yoruba)
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Bê-li-xê (C,U,Vietnamese)
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Beliz (C,U,Turkish, Crimean)
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Beliz (Uzbek)
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Beliz (Azerbaijani)
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Beliz (Bosnian)
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Beliz (Magyar (Hungarian))
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Beliz (Akan)
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Beliz (Hausa)
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Beliz (Haitian (Haitian Creole))
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Beliz (Dimli)
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Beliz (Gagauz)
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Beliz (Novial)
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Beliz (Veps)
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beliz (C,U)
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Belizɛ (C,U,Lingala)
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Beliza (C,U,Latin)
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Beliza (Latvian)
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Beliza (Albanian)
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Belizas (C,U,Lithuanian)
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Beliże (C,U,Maltese)
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Belîze (C,U,Kurdish)
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Belize nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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Belizi (C,U,Bambara)
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Belizi (Sicilian)
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Belîzi (C,U,Sangho)
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Belizo (C,U,Esperanto)
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Belizy (C,U,Malagasy)
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Berij (C,U,Nauruan)
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Bhelize (C,U,North Ndebele)
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Bilisi (C,U,Quechuan)
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Hueycopan (C,U,Nahuatl)
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Huēyicopan (C,U,Nahuatl)
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i-Belize (C,U,Zulu)
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IBhelizi (C,U,Swati (Swazi))
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Mbelise (C,U,Guarani)
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Orílẹ́ède Bèlísẹ̀ (C,U,Yoruba)
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Pelise (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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Wilisi (C,U,Ayamará)
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Yn Veleesh (C,U,Gaelic, indigenous Manx)
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Белизе (C,U,Serbian)
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Белизе (Macedonian)
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Беліз (C,U,Ukrainian)
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Беліз (Rusyn, Ukrainian (language group))
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Беліз (Belarusian)
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ბელიზი (C,U,Mingrelian)
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ბელიზი (Georgian)
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ބެލީޒު (C,U,Maldivian (Divehi))
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بيليز (C,U,Arabic, Egyptian)
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बेलिज (C,U,Hindi)
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बेलिज (Nepali)
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बेलिज (Newari)
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بېلىز (C,U,Uyghur)
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बेलिझ (C,U)
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Μπελίζ (C,U,Greek)
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بیلیز (C,U,Panjabi, Western)
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بیلیز (Urdu)
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ବେଲିଜ (C,U,Odia)
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بلیز (C,U,Azerbaijani, South)
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بلیز (Persian-Farsi)
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ಬೆಲೀಜ್ (C,U,Kannada)
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ເບລິຊ (C,U,Lao)
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ਬੇਲੀਜ਼ (C,U,Panjabi, Eastern)
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बेलीझ (C,U,Marathi)
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Բելիզ (C,U,Armenian)
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பெலீசு (C,U,Tamil)
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বেলিজ (C,U,Bengali)
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বেলিজ (Bishnupriya Manipuri)
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Белсин Орн (C,U,Kalmyk)
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बेलीज (C,U,Sanskrit)
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बेलीज (Kashmiri)
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बेलीज (Pali)
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ဘလိဇ်နိုင်ငံ (C,U,Burmese)
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伯利茲 (C,U,Chinese, Wu)
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伯利茲 (Chinese, Yue)
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بليز (C,U,Arabic)
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ベリーズ (C,U,Japanese)
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பெலிஸ் (C,U,Tamil)
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ቤሊዘ (C,U,Tigrinya)
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ቤሊዘ (Amharic)
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벨리즈 (C,U,Korean)
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బెలిజ్ (C,U,Telugu)
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ประเทศเบลีซ (C,U,Thai)
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بەلیز (C,U,Kurdish)
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بەلیز (Central Kurdish)
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ቤሊዝ (C,U,Amharic)
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Белисе (C,U,Serbian)
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បេលីហ្ស (C,U,Khmer)
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بېلیز (C,U,Pashto)
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བེ་ལི་ཛི། (C,U,Tibetan)
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בעליז (C,U,Yiddish)
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בליז (C,U,Hebrew )
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བེ་ལིཛ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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བེ་ལིཛ། (Dzongkha)
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เบลีซ (C,U,Thai)
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බෙලීස් (C,U,Sinhala)
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بیلائز (C,U,Urdu)
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বেলিয (C,U,Bengali)
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ဘေလီဇ် (C,U,Burmese)
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બેલીઝ (C,U,Gujarati)
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Μπελίσε (C,U,Greek)
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बेलिझे (C,U,Marathi)
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ବେଲିଜ୍ (C,U,Odia)
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बेलीज़ (C,U,Hindi)
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బెలీజ్ (C,U,Telugu)
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ಬೆಲಿಜ್ (C,U,Kannada)
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ബെലീസ് (C,U,Malayalam)
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British Honduras (H,V)
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............ | 1862-1981 |
Colony of Belize (H,V)
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Superintendency of Belize (H,V)
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............ | used from 1786 |
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nation (preferred, C) |
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gained internal self-government 1965, independent from Britain since 1981 |
primary political unit (C) |
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independent sovereign nation (C) |
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independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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capital is .... |
Belmopan .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, North and Central America, Belize, Cayo) [1013040] |
member of .... |
Commonwealth of Nations .......... (association) |
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(World) [7005615] |
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joined association in 1981 |
member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
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joined organization in 1981 |
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