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NXS-GRX-BLZ · Central America · Regions

Belize

First-level unit, Belize: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Map All 6 first-level units
Page GRX-BLZ-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO BLZ / BZStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
48,966
people (GHSL 2025)
3,648 km²
area
15.9%
of Belize
13
units inside

01Ramani

Inside Belize

The 13 ADM2 units of Belize.

FIG 1 · 13 units inside Belize
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Choose a humanitarian figure from the list to colour and raise the units by it; each figure shows its source on the unit page. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

Watu · GHSL 2025

48,966

15.9% of Belize.

Watu · WorldPop 2025

90,225

+84% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

3,648 km²

13 people per km².

Code

BZ-BZ

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Ukanda wa pwani ulio chini

32,765

people on land at or below 10 m, 66.9% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Humanitarian data

Belize in humanitarian data

Source observations from the Humanitarian Data Exchange, matched to this unit by name, each with its reference date, provider and licence. They are not index values.

Population · 2010-12-31

95,292

people. OCHA Latin America and the Caribbean (ROLAC) · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

04Units

13 units inside Belize

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic · Public Domain.

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Albert BZ-BZ 369 109 0.58 636 0.6% 0
Belize Rural North BZ-BZ 14,477 41,060 1,815.55 8 22.2% 4,192
Belize Rural North BZ-BZ 30,186 45,694 1,527.79 20 46.3% 26,967
Caribbean Shores BZ-BZ 3,398 1,257 2.97 1,144 5.2% 0
Collet BZ-BZ 704 409 1.59 443 1.1% 0
Fort George BZ-BZ 318 94 0.5 636 0.5% 0
Freetown BZ-BZ 8,729 3,228 7.63 1,144 13.4% 0
Freetown BZ-BZ 262 77 0.54 485 0.4% 0
Lake Independence BZ-BZ 1,890 1,098 4.27 443 2.9% 0
Mesopotamia BZ-BZ 229 67 0.36 636 0.4% 0
Pickstock BZ-BZ 339 100 0.7 484 0.5% 0
Port Loyola BZ-BZ 4,011 2,329 9.06 443 6.1% 0
Queen Square BZ-BZ 337 99 0.53 636 0.5% 0
05Exposure

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
None at this resolution
Bandari
None at this resolution
Viwanja vya ndege
None at this resolution
Major roads
None at this resolution
Reli
None at this resolution
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
06Hatari

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Belize publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Belize.
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07Neighbours

Neighbouring units

08Vyanzo

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen BLZ ADM1, source: geoBoundaries, Wikimedia Commons, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic · source · represents 2006
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen BLZ ADM2, source: geoBoundaries, Wikipedia, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2008
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
Nchi
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.

Hali

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