Belize

Facts

What the numbers say about Belize

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 761× the size of Belize.
• Belize ranks 150th of 239 by area but only 175th of 237 by population: it holds fewer people than its size suggests.
• At 18 people per km², Belize is the 153rd most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• Belize lies at 17°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.1×.
• Laid out flat, Belize's main territory stretches about 290 km north to south and 154 km east to west.
• Our measured 22,300 km² is 2.9% below Wikidata's official figure of 23,000 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

How Belize measures up

Belize holds 0.1% of the land area and 0.1% of the people of the 27 countries listed for North America. In Central America it is the 7th largest of 8.

Where Belize sits

• Belize's centre lies at 17.2°N, 88.7°W, in the northern and western hemispheres, about 1,910 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 16°N to 18°N, about 290 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Belize had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Belize would have 27.9 million people. It has 411,000.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Belize would have 83,000 people. It has 411,000.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 1.6 million.

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