Road Town
Tortola is the capital island of the British Virgin Islands and Road Town is the capital city. There's not a lot to see, although the original architecture of little wooden houses housing some interesting shops, cafes and an art gallery or two and Cockroach Hall built on a huge rock on Main Street is not be missed.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 12,600 residents
- Description: capital of the British Virgin Islands
- Also known as: “Road Harbour Town” and “Road Town, British Virgin Islands”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tortola and Elmore Stoutt High School.
Tortola
Photo: Calyponte, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tortola is the capital island of the British Virgin Islands and Road Town is the capital city. There's not a lot to see, although the original architecture of little wooden houses housing some interesting shops, cafes and an art gallery or two and Cockroach Hall built on a huge rock on Main Street is not be missed.
Elmore Stoutt High School
School
Elmore Stoutt High School is a grade 7-12 secondary school in Road Town, Tortola. It is the largest secondary school in the British Virgin Islands and plays a central role in public education across the territory.
St. William’s Church
Place of worship
St. William's Church is a Catholic church in Road Town, the capital of the British Virgin Islands. Although the community was founded in 1957 with a small chapel it was completed in 1993 and the first church much larger current building dates from 1999 and included the construction of a parish hall and administrative offices.
Road Town
- Categories: town, human settlement, and locality
- Location: British Virgin Islands, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
18.42577° or 18° 25′ 33″ northLongitude
-64.62309° or 64° 37′ 23″ westPopulation
12,600Elevation
30 feet (9 metres)United Nations Location Code
VG RADOpen location code
77CQC9GG+8QOpenStreetMap ID
node 280972174OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Road Town” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Road Town”
- Arabic: “رود تاون”
- Aragonese: “Road Town”
- Armenian: “Ռոդ Թաուն”
- Asturian: “Road Town”
- Azerbaijani: “Roud Taun”
- Basque: “Road Town”
- Belarusian: “Род-Таўн”
- Belarusian: “Роўд Таўн”
- Belarusian: “Роуд-Таун”
- Belarusian: “Роўд-Таўн”
- Bosnian: “Road Town”
- Bulgarian: “Роуд Таун”
- Catalan: “Road Town”
- Cebuano: “Road Town”
- Chechen: “Род-Таун”
- Chinese: “Road Town”
- Chinese: “罗德城”
- Chinese: “羅德城”
- Chinese: “路鎮”
- Croatian: “Road Town”
- Czech: “Road Town”
- Danish: “Road Town”
- Dutch: “Road Town”
- Egyptian Arabic: “رود تاون”
- Esperanto: “Rod-Taŭno”
- Finnish: “Road Town”
- French: “Road Town”
- Galician: “Road Town”
- Georgian: “როუდ-ტაუნი”
- German: “Road Town”
- Greek: “Road Town”
- Greek: “Ρόουντ Τάουν”
- Hebrew: “רואוד טאון”
- Hungarian: “Road Town”
- Icelandic: “Road Town”
- Ido: “Road Town”
- Indonesian: “Road Town”
- Irish: “Road Town”
- Italian: “Road Town”
- Italian: “Roadtown”
- Japanese: “ロードタウン”
- Kazakh: “Род-Таун”
- Korean: “로드타운”
- Latin: “Road Town”
- Latvian: “Rodtauna”
- Lithuanian: “Road Town”
- Lithuanian: “Rod Taunas”
- Lithuanian: “Roud Taunas”
- Macedonian: “Роуд Таун”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Road Town”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Road Town”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Road Town”
- Norwegian: “Road Town”
- Novial: “Road Town”
- Ossetian: “Род-Таун”
- Persian: “رود تاون”
- Polish: “Road Town”
- Portuguese: “Road Town”
- Romanian: “Road Town”
- Russian: “Род-Таун”
- Scots: “Road Town”
- Serbian: “Road Town”
- Serbian: “Roud Taun”
- Serbian: “Роуд Таун”
- Serbian: “Роудтаун”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Road Town”
- Slovak: “Road Town”
- Slovenian: “Road Town”
- Spanish: “Road Town”
- Swahili: “Road Town”
- Swedish: “Road Town”
- Tamil: “ரோடு டவுன்”
- Thai: “โรดทาวน์”
- Tumbuka: “Road Town”
- Turkish: “Road Town”
- Ukrainian: “Род-Таун”
- Urdu: “Road Town”
- Urdu: “روڈ ٹاون”
- Vietnamese: “Road Town”
- Waray (Philippines): “Road Town”
- Wu Chinese: “罗德城”
- Yoruba: “Road Town”
- Yue Chinese: “路鎮”
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