Basse-Terre
Basse-Terre is a commune in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe, in the Lesser Antilles. It is also the prefecture of Guadeloupe. The city of Basse-Terre is located on Basse-Terre Island, the western half of Guadeloupe.
- Type: Town with 9,780 residents
- Description: French commune and capital city of Guadeloupe
- Also known as: “Base-Terre”, “Basse-Terre (gemeente)”, “Bastè”, “TFFB”, “באסה טר”, “பாஸ்-டெர்”, and “バス＝テール”
- Postal code: 97100
Places of Interest
Highlights: Basse-Terre Cathedral and Musée Gerty Archimède.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Baillif and Gourbeyre.
Baillif
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Gourbeyre
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Saint-Claude
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Basse-Terre
- Categories: commune of France and locality
- Location: Basse-Terre, Arrondissement de la Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean, North America
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Latitude
16.00008° or 16° 0′ 0″ north
Longitude
-61.73334° or 61° 44′ west
Population
9,780
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
IATA airport code
BBR
UN/LOCODE
GP BBR
Open location code
778W2728+2M
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Basse-Terre” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Basse-Terre”
- Albanian: “Basse-Terre”
- Arabic: “باس-تير”
- Aragonese: “Basse-Terre”
- Armenian: “Բաս Տեր”
- Arpitan: “Bâssa-Tèrra”
- Asturian: “Basse-Terre”
- Azerbaijani: “Bas Ter”
- Azerbaijani: “Bas-Ter”
- Bambara: “Basse-Terre”
- Basque: “Basse-Terre”
- Bavarian: “Basse-Terre”
- Belarusian: “Бас-Тэр”
- Belarusian: “Бас-Тэрэ”
- Belarusian: “Баса-Тэрэ”
- Bengali: “বাস-তের”
- Bengali: “বাসে-ট্যারী”
- Bosnian: “Basse-Terre”
- Breton: “Basse-Terre”
- Buginese: “Basse-Terre”
- Bulgarian: “Бас Тер”
- Cajun French: “Basse-Terre”
- Catalan: “Basse-Terre”
- Cebuano: “Basse-Terre”
- Chechen: “Бас-ТегӀ”
- Chinese: “巴士地”
- Chinese: “巴斯特尔”
- Chinese: “巴斯特爾”
- Corsican: “Basse-Terre”
- Croatian: “Basse-Terre”
- Czech: “Basse-Terre”
- Danish: “Basse Terre”
- Danish: “Basse-Terre”
- Dutch: “Basse-Terre”
- Egyptian Arabic: “باس تير”
- Esperanto: “Bas-Tero”
- Esperanto: “Basse-Terre”
- Estonian: “Basse-Terre”
- Faroese: “Basse-Terre”
- Finnish: “Basse-Terre”
- French: “Basse-Terre”
- Friulian: “Basse-Terre”
- Fulah: “Basse Santa su”
- Galician: “Basse-Terre”
- Georgian: “ბას-ტერი”
- German: “Basse-Terre”
- Greek: “Basse-Terre”
- Greek: “Μπας-Τερ”
- Gujarati: “બસ્સે-ટેર”
- Hebrew: “באס טר”
- Hebrew: “באס-טר”
- Hindi: “बास-तेर”
- Hungarian: “Basse-Terre”
- Icelandic: “Basse-Terre”
- Ido: “Basse-Terre”
- Indonesian: “Basse-Terre”
- Interlingua: “Basse-Terre”
- Interlingue: “Basse-Terre”
- Irish: “Basse-Terre”
- Italian: “Basse-Terre”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Basse-Terre”
- Japanese: “バステール”
- Jèrriais: “Basse-Terre”
- Kabyle: “Basse-Terre”
- Kalaallisut: “Basse-Terre”
- Kannada: “ಬಾಸ್ಟೆರ್”
- Kazakh: “Бас-Тер”
- Kirghiz: “Бас-тер”
- Kirghiz: “Бас-Тер”
- Kongo: “Basse-Terre”
- Korean: “바스테르”
- Ladin: “Basse-Terre”
- Latin: “Ima Tellus”
- Latvian: “Bastēra”
- Ligurian: “Basse Terre”
- Ligurian: “Basse-Terre”
- Limburgan: “Basse-Terre”
- Lithuanian: “Bas Teras”
- Lithuanian: “Bas-Teras”
- Low German: “Basse-Terre”
- Luxembourgish: “Basse-Terre”
- Macedonian: “Бас Тер”
- Mainfränkisch: “Basse-Terre”
- Malagasy: “Basse-Terre”
- Malay: “Basse-Terre”
- Marathi: “बासे-तेर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Basse-Terre”
- Minangkabau: “Basse-Terre”
- Mingrelian: “ბას-ტერი”
- Mongolian: “Бас-Тер”
- Neapolitan: “Basse-Terre”
- Northern Frisian: “Basse-Terre”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Basse-Terre”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Basse-Terre”
- Norwegian: “Basse-Terre”
- Novial: “Basse-Terre”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Basse-Terre”
- Ossetian: “Бас-Тер”
- Papiamento: “Basse-Terre”
- Persian: “باس-تر”
- Picard: “Basse-Terre”
- Piemontese: “Basse-Terre”
- Polish: “Basse-Terre”
- Portuguese: “Basse-Terre”
- Prussian: “Basse-Terre”
- Romagnol: “Basse-Terre”
- Romanian: “Basse-Terre”
- Romansh: “Basse-Terre”
- Russian: “Бас-Тер”
- Sardinian: “Basse-Terre”
- Scots: “Basse-Terre”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Basse-Terre”
- Serbian: “Bas Ter”
- Serbian: “Бас Тер”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Basse-Terre”
- Sicilian: “Basse-Terre”
- Sinhala: “බාස්-ටෙරේ, ග්වාඩලූප්”
- Sinhala: “බැසටෙයර්”
- Slovak: “Basse-Terre”
- Slovenian: “Basse-Terre”
- Spanish: “Basse-Terre”
- Swahili: “Basse-Terre”
- Swedish: “Basse-Terre”
- Swiss German: “Basse-Terre”
- Tagalog: “Basse-Terre”
- Tajik: “Бас-Тер”
- Tamil: “பாசு-தெர்”
- Tamil: “பாஸ்தெர்”
- Tatar: “Бас-Тер”
- Telugu: “బాసీ-టెర్రీ”
- Thai: “บัส-แตร์”
- Turkish: “Basse-Terre”
- Turkmen: “Bas-Ter”
- Twi: “Basse-Terre”
- Ukrainian: “Бас-Тер”
- Urdu: “باس-تیر”
- Uzbek: “Bas-ter”
- Uzbek: “Bas-Ter”
- Venetian: “Basse-Terre”
- Vietnamese: “Basse-Terre”
- Vlaams: “Basse-Terre”
- Volapük: “Basse-Terre”
- Walloon: “Basse-Terre”
- Waray (Philippines): “Basse-Terre”
- Welsh: “Basse-Terre”
- Wolof: “Basse-Terre”
- Wu Chinese: “巴斯特尔（瓜德罗普）”
- Wu Chinese: “巴斯特尔”
- Yoruba: “Basse-Terre”
- Yue Chinese: “巴士地”
- Zulu: “Basse-Terre”
- “Basse-Terre”
- “Basseterre”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Bas du Bourg and Sur le Morne.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Église Sainte-Thérèse and Police municipale.
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Worth a closer look: Pointe-à-Pitre and Sainte-Anne.
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