Belize is a nation situated on the eastern bank of Central America. Belize is verged on the northwest by Mexico, on the east by the Caribbean Sea, and on the south and west by Guatemala. It has the least populace and populace thickness in Central America. The Mayan human advancement spread into the zone of Belize between 1500 B.C. what's more, 300 A.D. also, prospered until around 1200. European investigation battles started in 1502 when Christopher Columbus cruised along the Gulf of Honduras. European settlement was started by English pioneers in 1638. This period was likewise set apart by Spain and Britain both making a case for the land until Britain vanquished the Spanish in the Battle of St. George's Caye (1798). It turned into a British settlement in 1840, known as British Honduras, and a Crown state in 1862. Freedom was accomplished from the United Kingdom on 21 September 1981. Belize has an exceptionally various society that is made out of numerous societies and dialects that mirror its rich history. English is the official language of Belize, while Belizean Creole is an informal local language. Over a large portion of the populace is multilingual, with Spanish being the second most regular spoken language. It is known for its September Celebrations, its broad obstruction reef coral reefs and punta music. Belize's bounty of earthbound and marine species and its assorted variety of environments give it a key spot in the internationally critical Mesoamerican Biological Corridor. It is viewed as a Central American and Caribbean country with solid connections to both the American and Caribbean districts. Belize is a Commonwealth domain, with Queen Elizabeth II as its ruler and head of state.

Belmopan is the capital city of Belize. Despite the fact that the littlest capital city in the mainland Americas by populace, Belmopan is the third-biggest settlement in Belize, behind Belize City and San Ignacio. Established as an arranged network in 1970, Belmopan is one of the most up to date national capital urban areas on the planet. Since 2000 Belmopan has been one of two settlements in Belize to hold official city status, alongside Belize City. Belmopan is situated in Cayo District at a height of 76 meters (249 feet) above ocean level. Belmopan was built just toward the east of the Belize River, 80 km (50 mi) inland from the previous capital, the port of Belize City, after that city's close annihilation by Hurricane Hattie in 1961. The administration was moved to Belmopan in 1970. Its National Assembly Building is intended to look like a Pre-Columbian Maya sanctuary.

Prosthechea cochleata, once in the past known as Encyclia cochleata, Anacheilium cochleatum, and Epidendrum cochleatum and generally alluded to as the clamshell orchid or cockleshell orchid, is an epiphytic, sympodial New World orchid local to Central America, the West Indies, Colombia, Venezuela, and southern Florida. Every elliptical discoid pseudobulb bears a couple of straight nonsucculent leaves. The blossoms are irregular in that however the labellum is more often than not underneath the segment in the orchids, in the individuals from Prosthechea the labellum shapes a "hood" over the section. This makes the bloom viably topsy turvy, or non-resupinate. Though the species more often than not has one anther, Prosthechea cochleata var. triandra is a jeopardized assortment that has three anthers and is autogamous, permitting its reality in Florida where no fitting pollinators have all the earmarks of being available. Prosthechea cochleata is the national blossom of Belize, where it is known as the dark orchid.

The keel-billed toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus), otherwise called sulfur-breasted toucan or rainbow-charged toucan, is a bright Latin American individual from the toucan family. It is the national winged creature of Belize. Counting its bill, the bottom charged toucan extends long from around 42 to 55 cm (17 to 22 in). Their vast and vivid bill midpoints around 12– 15 cm (4.7– 5.9 in), around 33% of its length. It commonly weighs about 380– 500 g (13– 18 oz). While the bill appears to be huge and lumbering, it is in reality a springy, empty bone canvassed in keratin, an extremely light and hard protein. The plumage of the bottom charged toucan is for the most part dark with a yellow neck and chest. Shedding happens once every year. It has blue feet and red quills at the tip of its tail. The bill is mostly green with a red tip and orange sides. Bottom charged toucans have zygodactyl feet (or feet with toes looking in changed ways) – two toes look ahead and two face back. Since toucans invest a huge bit of energy in the trees, this causes the winged animals to remain on the parts of the trees and hop starting with one branch then onto the next. The bottom charged toucan can be found from Southern Mexico to Venezuela and Colombia. It perches in the overhangs of tropical, subtropical, and swamp rainforests, up to elevations of 1,900 m (6,200 ft). In the same way as other toucans, bottom charged toucans are extremely social flying creatures, once in a while observed alone. They fly in little runs of roughly six to twelve people through marsh rainforests. Their flight is moderate and undulating, comprising of quick wing beats (six to ten), at that point a skim with the fledgling's mouth stretching out forward and plunging descending just as pulling the remainder of the feathered creature.

Baird's tapir (Tapirus bairdii), otherwise called the Central American ungulate, is a types of ungulate local to Mexico, Central America and northwestern South America. It is one of four Latin American types of ungulate. The ungulate is the biggest land warm blooded creature in Central America. Like the other Latin American ungulates (the mountain ungulate, the South American ungulate, and the little dark ungulate), the Baird's ungulate is ordinarily called danta by individuals in all regions. In the districts around Oaxaca and Veracruz, it is alluded to as the anteburro. Panamanians, and Colombians call it macho de monte, and in Belize, where the Baird's ungulate is the national creature, it is known as the mountain bovine. Baird's ungulate has an unmistakable cream-hued checking all over and throat and a dull spot on each cheek, behind and underneath the eye. The remainder of its hair is dull dark colored or grayish darker. Baird's ungulates normal 2 m (6.6 ft) long yet can run somewhere in the range of 1.8 and 2.5 m (5.9 and 8.2 ft), not including a thickset, vestigal tail of 5– 13 cm (2.0– 5.1 in), and 73– 120 cm (2.40– 3.94 ft) in tallness. Weight in grown-ups can go from 150 to 400 kilograms (330 to 880 lb). Like different types of ungulates, they have little, squat tails and long, adaptable proboscises. They have four toes on each front foot and three toes on each back foot.