BZ — Belize

Belize is a Central American country on the Caribbean coast, the only English-speaking country in Central America. Belmopan is the capital (moved from Belize City after a hurricane in 1961). Belize is known for the Great Blue Hole and the second-largest barrier reef in the world. The Belize Dollar (BZD) is pegged to the US dollar at 2:1. For developers, the BZ country code and .bz domain have been marketed globally as a generic TLD. The +501 dialing code serves Belize's telecommunications. The en-BZ locale handles Belizean English, though Spanish and Kriol are also widely spoken. Belize's position as the only English-speaking Central American nation makes it unique in the region for localization purposes — while its neighbors use es-* locales, Belize uses en-BZ. The .bz domain's international marketing has made it one of the more commonly encountered Caribbean ccTLDs in global web contexts.