South America
Guyana
Upper Demerara-Berbice

Fort Nassau

Fort Nassau was the capital of the colony of Berbice, in present-day . It was situated on the approximately 88 kilometres upstream from .
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Fort Nassau

Latitude
5.77236° or 5° 46′ 21″ north
Longitude
-57.66158° or 57° 39′ 42″ west
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
Open location code
68Q4Q8CQ+W9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7671843030
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
3376771
Wiki­data ID
Q3395011
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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Ukrainian—“Fort Nassau” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “Fort Nassau (Guyana)”
  • Dutch: “Fort Nassau”
  • French: “fort Nassau”
  • French: “Fort Nassau”
  • German: “Fort Nassau”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fort Nassau”
  • Russian: “Форт Нассау”
  • Ukrainian: “Форт Нассау”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Fort Nassau”. Photo: Jakob van der Schley, Public domain.