Belize - Geography
Belize is located on the Caribbean coast of northern Central America. It shares a border on the north with Mexico, on the west with the Guatemalan, and on the south with Izabal.
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Small cay islands totalling about 690 square kilometres, dot the reef. The area of the country totals 22,960 square kilometres.
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The abundance of lagoons along the coasts and in the northern interior reduces the actual land area to 21,400 square kilometres.
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With a population of 320,000 people, the population density is the lowest in the Central American region. Belize is shaped like a rectangle thatextends about 280 kilometres north-south and about 100 kilometres east-west. The undulating courses of two rivers, the Hondo and the Sarstoon, define much of the course of the country's northern and southern boundaries.
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The western border follows no natural features and runs north-south through lowland forest and highland plateau
The maritime exclusive economic zone: 200 nm, territorial sea: 12 nm in the north, 3 nm in the south; note - from the mouth of the Sarstoon River to Ranguana Cay, Belize's territorial sea is 3 nm;
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