Portsmouth
Portsmouth is the second largest town in Dominica, with 3,630 inhabitants. It is located on the shore of a natural Harbor, Prince Rupert Bay, in Saint John Parish on the north-west coast of Dominica.Photo: Biopics, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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- Type: Town with 3,630 residents
- Description: town in Dominica
- Also known as: “Grand-Anse” and “Portsmouth, Dominica”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort Shirley and Morne Balvine.
Fort Shirley
Photo: Leahtaylor 9, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fort Shirley is a historic military outpost on the Caribbean island of Dominica. It was built by the British in 1765, and was named for Sir Thomas Shirley.
Morne Balvine
Peak
Morne Balvine is a mountain located in Saint John, Dominica, on segment 11 of the Waitukubuli Trail. The estimate elevation is 404 feet above sea level.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Picard and Cottage.
Picard
Suburb
Picard is a community on the northwest side of Dominica. It is part of Portsmouth, Dominica. The Ross University School of Medicine, part of DeVry University, was located in Picard and once had over a thousand medical students arriving annually from the…
Cottage
Village
Cottage is a town in the north of Dominica. The community, along with its neighbouring community of Cocoyer, had a population of 279 in 2011. Cottage is located in the Saint John Parish. Cottage is situated 2½ miles north of Portsmouth.
Portsmouth
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Saint John Parish, Dominica, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
15.579° or 15° 34′ 45″ northLongitude
-61.4551° or 61° 27′ 18″ westPopulation
3,630Elevation
3 feet (1 metre)United Nations Location Code
DM POROpen location code
777WHGHV+JXOpenStreetMap ID
way 133470397OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Uzbek—“Portsmouth” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ፖርትስማውት”
- Arabic: “بورتسموث”
- Asturian: “Portsmouth”
- Azerbaijani: “Portsmut”
- Bengali: “পোর্টসমাউথ”
- Cebuano: “Portsmouth”
- Chinese: “朴次茅斯”
- Chinese: “朴茨茅斯”
- Chinese: “樸茨茅夫”
- Danish: “Portsmouth”
- Dutch: “Portsmouth”
- Esperanto: “Portsmouth”
- French: “Portsmouth”
- German: “Portsmouth”
- Greek: “Πόρτσμουθ, Δομινίκα”
- Greek: “Πόρτσμουθ”
- Hausa: “Portsmouth”
- Hebrew: “פורטסמות‘”
- Hebrew: “פורטסמות’”
- Hindi: “पोर्ट्समाउथ”
- Indonesian: “Portsmouth, Dominika”
- Indonesian: “Portsmouth”
- Italian: “Portsmouth”
- Japanese: “ポーツマス”
- Javanese: “Portsmouth”
- Kazakh: “Портсмут”
- Kirghiz: “Портсмут”
- Korean: “포츠머스”
- Lithuanian: “Portsmutas”
- Malay: “Portsmouth”
- Moksha: “Портсмут”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Portsmouth”
- Norwegian: “Portsmouth”
- Oromo: “Portsmouth”
- Panjabi: “ਪੋਰਟਸਮਾਊਥ”
- Persian: “پورتسموت”
- Persian: “پورتسموث، دومینیکا”
- Persian: “پورتسموث”
- Polish: “Portsmouth”
- Portuguese: “Portsmouth”
- Pushto: “پورتسموت”
- Romanian: “Portsmouth, Dominica”
- Romanian: “Portsmouth”
- Russian: “Портсмут”
- Somali: “Portsmouth”
- Spanish: “Portsmouth”
- Swahili: “Portsmouth”
- Swedish: “Portsmouth”
- Tajik: “Портсмут”
- Tatar: “Портсмут”
- Turkish: “Portsmouth”
- Urdu: “پورٹس ماؤتھ، ڈومینیکا”
- Urdu: “پورٹس ماؤتھ”
- Urdu: “پورٹسماؤتھ”
- Uzbek: “Portsmouth”
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