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Sint Eustatius

Oranjestad

Oranjestad is a small town of 1,038 inhabitants; it is the capital and largest town of the island of in the . It is not to be confused with the far larger in .
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  • Type: Town with 1,100 residents
  • Description: capital of Sint Eustatius, Caribbean Netherlands
  • Also known as: “Oranjestad, Sint Eustatius”
  • Historically known as: “Orange Town”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fort Oranje and F. D. Roosevelt Airport.

Photo: Wikimedia, GFDL.
is a historic fortress located in in the Dutch Caribbean. It is located in Oranjestad, the island's capital, on a cliff overlooking Oranje Bay.

Aerodrome
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is the located on the Dutch Caribbean island of . It was opened as "Golden Rock Airport" in 1946 and renamed for Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Volcano
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, also known as Mount Mazinga, is a stratovolcano located on the island of in the . The summit elevation of 601 m above sea level makes it the second highest mountain in the Netherlands.

Oranjestad

Latitude
17.48241° or 17° 28′ 57″ north
Longitude
-62.98288° or 62° 58′ 58″ west
Population
1,100
Elevation
43 metres (141 feet)
IATA airport code
EUX
United Nations Location Codes
BQ EUX and BQ ORA
Open location code
779VF2J8+XR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 279149652
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3513426
Wiki­data ID
Q217610
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Oranjestad” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Oranjestad”
  • Arabic: “أورانياستاد”
  • Asturian: “Oranxestad”
  • Azerbaijani: “Oranyestad”
  • Basque: “Oranjestad”
  • Belarusian: “Араньестад (Сінт-Эстатыус)”
  • Belarusian: “Араньестад”
  • Bosnian: “Oranjestad”
  • Breton: “Oranjestad”
  • Catalan: “Oranjestad”
  • Cebuano: “Oranjestad”
  • Chinese: “Oranjestad”
  • Chinese: “奥拉涅斯塔德”
  • Chinese: “奥腊涅斯塔德”
  • Chinese: “奧臘涅斯塔德”
  • Croatian: “Oranjestad”
  • Danish: “Oranjestad”
  • Dutch: “Oranjestad”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اورانياستاد”
  • Esperanto: “Oranjestado”
  • Finnish: “Oranjestad”
  • French: “Oranjestad”
  • Galician: “Oranjestad, Santo Eustaquio”
  • Galician: “Oranjestad”
  • Georgian: “ორანესტადი”
  • German: “Oranjestad”
  • Greek: “Οράνιεστατ”
  • Hebrew: “אורנייסטאד”
  • Indonesian: “Oranjestad, Sint Eustatius”
  • Indonesian: “Oranjestad”
  • Irish: “Oranjestad”
  • Italian: “Oranjestad”
  • Japanese: “オラニエスタッド”
  • Korean: “오라녜스타트”
  • Latin: “Auriacopolis”
  • Latvian: “Oranjestade”
  • Lithuanian: “Oranjestadas”
  • Lombard: “Oranjestad”
  • Luxembourgish: “Oranjestad (Sint Eustatius)”
  • Luxembourgish: “Oranjestad”
  • Macedonian: “Орањестад”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Oranjestad”
  • Northern Frisian: “Oranjestad”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Oranjestad, Sint Eustatius”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Oranjestad”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oranjestad på Sint Eustatius”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oranjestad”
  • Norwegian: “Oranjestad”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Oranjestad”
  • Papiamento: “Oranjestad”
  • Persian: “اورنیستات، سینت یوستیشس”
  • Persian: “اورنیستات”
  • Piemontese: “Oranjestad”
  • Polish: “Oranjestad”
  • Portuguese: “Oranjestad”
  • Russian: “Ораньестад”
  • Scots: “Oranjestad”
  • Serbian: “Oranjestad”
  • Serbian: “Орањестад”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Oranjestad”
  • Spanish: “Oranjestad”
  • Swedish: “Oranjestad, Sint Eustatius”
  • Swedish: “Oranjestad”
  • Turkish: “Oranjestad, Sint Eustatius”
  • Turkish: “Oranjestad”
  • Ukrainian: “Ораньєстад”
  • Urdu: “اورنجسٹیڈ، سینٹ ایوسٹائیس”
  • Urdu: “اورنجسٹیڈ”
  • Vietnamese: “Oranjestad, Sint Eustatius”
  • Vietnamese: “Oranjestad”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Oranjestad, Sint Eustatius”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Oranjestad”
  • Western Frisian: “Oranjestêd”
  • Wu Chinese: “奥拉涅斯塔德（圣尤斯特歇斯）”
  • Wu Chinese: “奥拉涅斯塔德”

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