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Belmopan

Capital of Belize

Watercolour of Belmopan, Belize. Belmopan as a small, spacious planned inland capital near the Belize River valley, with The National Assembly Building and The flanking government office blocks.
AI-generated artistic rendering. Painted from written research on the city's setting, architecture and materials — not from a photograph.
What guided this image
Landmarks
The National Assembly Building; The flanking government office blocks; Independence Plaza
Viewpoint
Use a slightly raised view across the Independence Plaza area toward the Assembly and its neighboring office blocks, broadening the familiar single-building photograph into the spacious civic landscape without fabricating additional attractions.
Palette
Muted botanical green should predominate in the real civic lawns and tropical tree cover, with slate-grey Assembly surfaces and blue-grey roof shadows retaining the modern planned-city identity.
Guarded against
Avoid making Belmopan look like Belize City with a Caribbean harbor, Antigua Guatemala with a preserved Spanish colonial core, or Tikal with Maya pyramids rising from unbroken jungle.
Population13,381Wikidata: 4,700
Coordinates17.25°N, 88.76°W
Elevation76 m
Area32,780,000 km²
Time zoneAmerica/BelizeUTC−6
Solar noon11:55clock runs 0.1 h behind the sun

Through the Earth

Dig straight through the Earth from Belmopan and you surface in open ocean, nearest to West Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands — 825 km from the exact antipodal point.

Nearest cities in the atlas

Guatemala CityGT345 km
TegucigalpaHN390 km
San SalvadorSV399 km
MéridaMX423 km
ManaguaNI630 km
HavanaCU933 km
San JoséCR958 km
PueblaMX1,018 km

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