This Is Belize
Welcome To Belize!
Belize is a safe, welcoming, unassuming little country where the population values personal privacy, self-determination, and freedom.
Belize is famous for its white-sand Caribbean beaches and clear, unpolluted waters. The best weather in Belize is between December and April, making it perfect for snowbirds.
Belize is known as a friendly and welcoming country. The official language is English, something that makes it easy for expats to thrive. Belize offers one of the best residency programs you can find.
For non-Americans, Belize offers tax-free living, with legal residency easy to obtain through the country’s Qualified Retired Persons (QRP) program. Foreign residents pay no tax in Belize on non-Belize income. Thus, be you British, German, Australian, or Irish, for example, you could become a QRP and reduce your overall tax burden to virtually nothing.
The money needed to retire here is low, you can move on your social security check. Belize is close enough to the States that you can even drive down.
Belize is also a banking haven, one of the few remaining in the world, a jurisdiction where every bank must maintain a minimum of 24% liquidity at all times and where bankers respect bank secrecy. It’s one of the easiest places in the world to open an offshore account.
For all of those reasons, Belize claims a spot every year at or near the top of our Best Retirement Havens in the World List.
Map, Facts, And Figures
Map Of Belize
Belize is located in northern Central America, bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the East, Mexico to the North, and Guatemala to the South and West.
Belize is a small country. A land mass of 8,867 square miles makes it roughly the same size as Massachusetts. The country is approximately 180 miles from North to South and 70 miles from East to West. Although small in size, it is rather diverse in environment. The Northern half of the country is more flatlands whereas the Southern half is a low mountain range. The Maya Mountains, as they are known, reach a little over 3,500 feet above sea level at their highest. Belize is a narrow country with a mountain range along its western border and the Caribbean Sea as an eastern border. These conditions combine to create weather variations. As you go further south in Belize, annual precipitation increases drastically. It is this rain which gives southern Belize its lush tropical rain forests.
Just offshore from the mainland, Belize has the second-largest barrier reef in the world, including the famous underwater atoll, known as the Great Blue Hole.
