Belize Google Maps

Belize

Free and always accurate driving directions, Google Maps, traffic information for Belize (BZ). Explore satellite imagery of Belmopan, the capital city of Belize, on the Google Maps of Central America and the Caribbean below.

Belize (GPS: 17 15 N, 88 45 W) is located in Central America, bordering the Caribbean Sea, between Guatemala and Mexico. The country’s area measurements are total: 22,966 sq km; land: 22,806 sq km, water: 160 sq km. This sovereign state is slightly smaller than Massachusetts. The total irrigated land is 35 sq km (2012).

One of Belize’s essential features: Only country in Central America without a coastline on the North Pacific Ocean.

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El Salvador Google Maps

El Salvador

Free and always accurate driving directions, Google Maps, traffic information for El Salvador (SV). Explore satellite imagery of San Salvador, the capital city of El Salvador, on the Google Maps of Central America and the Caribbean below.

El Salvador (GPS: 13 50 N, 88 55 W) located in Central America, bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between Guatemala and Honduras. The country’s area measurements are total: 21,041 sq km; land: 20,721 sq km, water: 320 sq km. This sovereign state is about the same size as New Jersey. The total irrigated land is 452 sq km (2012).

One of the critical features of El Salvador: Smallest Central American country and only one without a coastline on the Caribbean Sea.

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Guatemala Google Maps

Guatemala

Free and always accurate driving directions, Google Maps, traffic information for Guatemala (GT). Explore satellite imagery of Guatemala City, the capital city of Guatemala, on the Google Maps of Central America and the Caribbean below.

Guatemala (GPS: 15 30 N, 90 15 W) located in Central America, bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between El Salvador and Mexico, and bordering the Gulf of Honduras (Caribbean Sea) between Honduras and Belize. The country’s area measurements are total: 108,889 sq km; land: 107,159 sq km, water: 1,730 sq km. This sovereign state is slightly smaller than Pennsylvania. The total irrigated land is 3,375 sq km (2012).

One of Guatemala’s essential features: Despite having eastern and western coastlines (the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, respectively), there are no natural harbors on the west coast. Guatemala is one of the countries along the Ring of Fire, a belt of active volcanoes and earthquake epicenters bordering the Pacific Ocean. Up to 90% of the world’s earthquakes and some 75% of the world’s volcanoes occur within the Ring of Fire.

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Honduras Google Maps

Honduras

Free and always accurate driving directions, Google Maps, traffic information for Honduras (HN). Explore satellite imagery of Tegucigalpa, the capital city of Honduras, on the Google Maps of Central America and the Caribbean below.

Honduras (GPS: 15 00 N, 86 30 W) located in Central America, bordering the Caribbean Sea between Guatemala and Nicaragua and bordering the Gulf of Fonseca (North Pacific Ocean) between El Salvador and Nicaragua. The country’s area measurements are total: 112,090 sq km; land: 111,890 sq km, water: 200 sq km. This sovereign state is slightly larger than Tennessee. The total irrigated land is 900 sq km (2012).

One of Honduras’s important features: Has only a short Pacific coast but a long Caribbean shoreline, including the virtually uninhabited eastern Mosquito Coast.

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Mexico Google Maps

Mexico

Free and always accurate driving directions, Google Maps, traffic information for Mexico (MX). Explore satellite imagery of Mexico City, Mexico’s capital city, on the Google Maps of North America below.

Mexico (GPS: 23 00 N, 102 00 W) located in North America, bordering the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, between Belize and the United States and bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between Guatemala and the United States. The country’s area measurements are total: 1,964,375 sq km; land: 1,943,945 sq km, water: 20,430 sq km. This sovereign state is slightly less than three times the size of Texas. The total irrigated land is 65,000 sq km (2012).

One of the essential features of Mexico: Strategic location on the southern border of the US. Mexico is one of the countries along the Ring of Fire, a belt of active volcanoes and earthquake epicenters bordering the Pacific Ocean. Up to 90% of the world’s earthquakes and some 75% of the world’s volcanoes occur within the Ring of Fire. The “Three Sisters” companion plants – winter squash, maize (corn), and climbing beans – served as the main crops for various North American Indian groups. All three originated in Mexico but then were widely disseminated through much of North America. Vanilla, the world’s most popular aroma, and flavor spice, also emanates from Mexico.

The Sac Actun cave system at 348 km (216 mi) is the longest underwater cave globally and the second-longest cave worldwide, after Mammoth Cave in the United States. Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize share the prominent Yucatan Peninsula that divides the Gulf of Mexico from the Caribbean Sea. On the northern coast of Yucatan, near the town of Chicxulub (pronounce cheek-sha-loob), lie the remnants of a massive crater (some 150 km in diameter and extending well out into the Gulf of Mexico). Formed by an asteroid or comet when it struck the earth 66 million years ago, the impact is now widely accepted as initiating a worldwide climate disruption that caused a mass extinction of 75% of all the earth’s plant and animal species – including the non-avian dinosaurs.

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