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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,Dzongkha)
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| བེ་ལིཛ། (Tibetan)
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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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