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website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed
sky charts, their website will help you find planets, asteriods, comets, satellites and their tracks across the sky.
To give accurate results, Heavens-Above requires the latitude and longitude of your location. As a starting point, when we link to Heavens-Above,
we pass this GPS location for Belzoni:
33.183794, -90.485371
Once you're on the Heavens-Above website, you can improve its accuracy by giving a more precise longitude and latitude as your actual position.
We found one communities that are also named Belzoni.
Within Mississippi, the name Belzoni is unique.
Beyond Mississippi, there is another community also named Belzoni in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Oklahoma
Pushmataha County
This Belzoni is located in Pushmataha County and lies 294 miles [473.1 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Belzoni that is located in Humphreys County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pushmataha County community of Belzoni.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Belzoni ...
As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a city such as Belzoni to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Belzoni and extending to:
Jackson, which is the State Capital of Mississippi, lies 63 miles [101.4 km]<1> to the south southeast (SSE). If you could walk a straight line from Belzoni to Jackson, with an average speed<2> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of three days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take about three full days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 846 miles [1,361.5 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 33 days and walking would take 48 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,718 miles [10,811.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,437 miles [11,968.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,312 miles [8,548.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Belzoni) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day.
<3>
The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from Belzoni to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Belzoni. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.1838, Longitude: -90.4854
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.908 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.828 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 311.87 degrees.