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Type Country & River
Scripts Белизе(Serbian, Macedonian)
Pronounced Pron. bə-LEEZ(English) BEH-LEEZ(French) beh-LEE-zə(Dutch) beh-LYEE-zeh(Polish) BEH-lee-zeh(Hungarian) BEH-li-zeh(Czech)
Note In Turkish this name is written with a dotted İ. It appears as BELİZE in uppercase and belize in lowercase.

Meaning & History

From Spanish Belice, earlier Balis, from the name of the Belize River, which may itself be from Mayan beliz meaning "muddy water". This is the name of a country on the Atlantic coast of Central America.