Basel
One of Switzerland's underrated tourist destinations, Basel has a beautiful medieval old town centre, a fascinating carnival, and several world class art museums built by architects like Renzo Piano, Mario Botta and Herzog & De Meuron.
Photo: Noebu, CC BY 2.5.
Notable Places in the Area
Kunstmuseum Basel
Museum
The Kunstmuseum Basel houses the oldest public art collection in the world and is generally considered to be the most important museum of art in Switzerland. Photo: Wikimedia, FAL.
St. Jakob-Park
Stadium
St. Jakob-Park is a Swiss sports stadium in Basel. It is the largest football venue in Switzerland and home to FC Basel. Photo: Chrisixx, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Basel Zoo
Zoo
Zoo Basel is a non-profit zoo in the city of Basel, Switzerland. Photo: TeamBurton, Public domain.
Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig
Museum
Founded in 1961, the Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig is one of the many museums in the Swiss city of Basel and a heritage site of national significance. Photo: Basmus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City
- Description: city on the Rhine, in Switzerland
- Categories: municipality of Switzerland, cantonal capital of Switzerland, college town, city of Switzerland, border town, big city and locality
- Location: Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
- Postal codes: 4000, 4001, 4031 and 4051-4059
- Neighbors: Saint-Louis and Weil am Rhein
Localities in the Area
Saint-Louis
Saint-Louis is in Grand-Est. Despite being separated from it by an international border, it serves in many ways as a suburb of Basel, including being linked to its tram network. Photo: Comstagiaire SL, CC BY-SA 4.0.Weil am Rhein
Weil am Rhein is a German town and commune. It is on the east bank of the River Rhine, and extends to the point at which the Swiss, French and German borders meet. Photo: Taxiarchos228, CC BY-SA 3.0.Allschwil
Town
Allschwil is a town and a municipality in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. Photo: Patrik Tschudin, CC BY 2.0.
Basel
Latitude
47.5581° or 47° 33' 29" northLongitude
7.5878° or 7° 35' 16" eastPopulation
174,000Elevation
279 metres (915 feet)IATA airport codes
EAP and BSLUnited Nations Location Code
CH BSLOpen Location Code
8FV9HH5Q+64OpenStreetMap ID
node 27284711GeoNames ID
2661604Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Basel
- Afrikaans: Basel
- Afrikaans: Bâle
- Akan: Basel
- Akan: Bâle
- Albanian: Basel
- Albanian: Bazeli
- Albanian: Bâle
- Amharic: ባዝል
- Arabic: Basel
- Arabic: بازل
- Arabic: باسل
- Armenian: Բազել
- Armenian: Պազել
- Asturian; Bable: Basel
- Asturian; Bable: Basilea
- Asturian; Bable: Bâle
- Avaric: Basel
- Azerbaijani: Bazel
- Azerbaijani: Bâle
- Basque: Basilea
- Basque: Bâle
- Belarusian: Базель
- Belarusian: Базэль
- Bengali: বাজেল
- Bhojpuri: बासेल
- Bhojpuri: बेसल
- Bosnian: Basel
- Bosnian: Bâle
- Breton: Basel
- Breton: Bâle
- Bulgarian: Базел
- Catalan: Basilea
- Catalan: Bâle
- Cebuano: Basel (kapital sa kanton)
- Cebuano: Basel
- Central Kurdish: بازل
- Chavacano: Basilea
- Chavacano: Bâle
- Chechen: Базель
- Chichewa; Nyanja: Basel
- Chichewa; Nyanja: Bâle
- Chinese: Basel
- Chinese: 巴塞尔
- Chinese: 巴塞爾
- Chinese: 巴泽尔
- Chinese: 巴澤爾
- Chuvash: Базель
- Croatian: Basel
- Croatian: Bâle
- Czech: Basilej
- Czech: Bâle
- Danish: Basel
- Danish: Bâle
- Dimli: Basel
- Dimli: Bâle
- Dutch: Basel
- Dutch: Bazel
- Egyptian Spoken Arabic: بازل
- English: Basel BS
- English: Basle
- English: Bâle
- Esperanto: Basel
- Esperanto: Bazelo
- Estonian: Basel
- Estonian: Bâle
- Faroese: Basel
- Faroese: Bâle
- Finnish: Basel
- Finnish: Bâle
- Franco-Provençal: Bâla
- Franco-Provençal: Bâle
- French: Basel
- French: Bâle
- Frisian: Basel
- Frisian: Bâle
- Gaelic (Scots): Basel
- Gaelic (Scots): Bâle
- Gallegan: Bale
- Gallegan: Basel
- Gallegan: Basilea
- Gallegan: Bâle
- Georgian: ბაზელი
- German: Basel
- German: Bâle
- Greek: Βασιλεία
- Gujarati: બેસેલ
- Hakka Chinese: Basel
- Hakka Chinese: Bâle
- Hausa: Basel
- Hebrew: בזל
- Hindi: बासेल
- Hungarian: Bázel
- Hungarian: Bâle
- Icelandic: Basel
- Icelandic: Bâle
- Ido: Basel
- Ido: Bâle
- Inari Sami: Basel
- Indonesian: Basel
- Indonesian: Bâle
- Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association): Basel
- Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association): Bâle
- Interlingue: Basel
- Interlingue: Bâle
- Irish: Basel
- Irish: Bâle
- Italian: Basilea
- Italian: Bâle
- Japanese: バーゼル
- Javanese: Basel
- Javanese: Bâle
- Kabyle: Bâle
- Kannada: ಬಾಸೆಲ್
- Kazakh: Базель
- Korean: 바젤
- Kurdish: Basel
- Ladino: Basilea
- Ladino: Bâle
- Latin: Basilea
- Latin: Basilia
- Latin: Bâle
- Latin: Robur
- Latvian: Bāzele
- Letzeburgesch: Basel
- Letzeburgesch: Bâle
- Lingala: Bâle
- Lithuanian: Bazelis
- Lombard: Basilea
- Lombard: Bâle
- Low German; Low Saxon: Basel
- Low German; Low Saxon: Bâle
- Macedonian: Базел
- Malay (generic): Basel
- Malay (generic): Bâle
- Maltese: Bażel
- Marathi: बासल
- Min Dong Chinese: Basel
- Min Dong Chinese: Bâle
- Min Nan Chinese: Basel
- Min Nan Chinese: Bâle
- Mingrelian: ბაზელი
- Mongolian: Базель
- Mongolian: Базель хот
- Nauru: Basel
- Nauru: Bâle
- Neapolitan: Basilea
- Neapolitan: Bâle
- Nepali: बेसेल
- Northern Frisian: Bâle
- Northern Frisian: Bāsel
- Norwegian: Basel
- Norwegian Bokmål: Basel
- Norwegian Bokmål: Bâle
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Basel
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Bâle
- Occitan (post 1500); Provençal: Basilèa
- Ossetian; Ossetic: Базель
- Persian: بازل
- Piemontese: Basilea
- Polish: Bazylea
- Polish: Bâle
- Portuguese: Basileia
- Portuguese: Basiléia
- Portuguese: Bâle
- Pushto: بازل شتادت
- Quechua: Basel
- Quechua: Bâle
- Raeto-Romance: Basilea.
- Raeto-Romance: Basilea
- Raeto-Romance: Bâle
- Romanian: Basel
- Romanian: Bâle
- Russian: Базель
- Saterfriesisch: Basel
- Saterfriesisch: Bâle
- Schwyzerdütsch: Basel
- Scots: Basel
- Scots: Bâle
- Serbian: Базел
- Serbo-Croatian: Basel
- Serbo-Croatian: Bâle
- Sicilian: Basilea
- Sicilian: Bâle
- Sinhalese: බැසෙල්
- Slovak: Bazilej
- Slovak: Bâle
- Slovenian: Basel
- Slovenian: Bâle
- Sorbian, Upper: Basel
- Sorbian, Upper: Bâle
- South Azerbaijani: بازل
- Spanish: Basilea
- Spanish: Bâle
- Swahili (generic): Basel
- Swahili (generic): Bâle
- Swedish: Basel
- Swedish: Basilea
- Swedish: Bâle
- Tagalog: Basel
- Tagalog: Bâle
- Tamil: பேசெல்
- Tatar: Базел
- Telugu: బాసెల్
- Thai: บาเซิล
- Tibetan: པ་སེལ།
- Tosk Albanian: Basel
- Turkish: Basel
- Turkish: Bâle
- Ukrainian: Базель
- Urdu: بازل
- Urdu: بازیل
- Uzbek: Bazel
- Uzbek: Bâle
- Venetian: Baxiłea
- Venetian: Bazilea
- Venetian: Bâle
- Vietnamese: Basel
- Vietnamese: Bâle
- Vlaams: Bazel
- Volapük: Basel
- Volapük: Bâle
- Waray (Philippines): Basel
- Waray (Philippines): Bâle
- Welsh: Basel
- Welsh: Bâle
- Wu Chinese: 白才尔
- Yiddish: באזעל
- Yue Chinese: 巴塞爾
Other Places Named Basel
In the Area
Localities
- Altstadt GrossbaselSuburb
- KlagemauerLocality
- Bei den TelefonzellenLocality
- Altstadt KleinbaselSuburb
Landmarks
- StadtmarktMarketplace
- Bank CIC (Switzerland) Ltd.Bank
- Staatsarchiv BaselGovernment office
- Wohn- und Wehrturm SchneidergasseArchaeological site
Popular Destinations in Northwestern Switzerland
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