British Honduras was the former name of what is now the independent nation of Belize and was a British colony on the east coast of Central America, southeast of Mexico. First colonised by Spaniards in the seventeenth century, it became a British crown colony from 1862 through 1964, when it became self-governing. Belize became fully independent from the United Kingdom in 1981. It was renamed Belize in 1973.
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