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.
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  • Type: City with 174,000 residents
  • Description: city on the Rhine in Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Bâle”, “Basel BS”, and “Basle”
  • Postal codes: 4000, 4001, 4031, and 4051-4059
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kunstmuseum Basel and Basel SBB Railway Station.

Museum
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The houses the oldest public art collection in the world and is generally considered to be the most important museum of art in .

Railway station
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is the central railway station in the city of Basel, Switzerland. Opened in 1854 but rebuilt in 1907, it is Europe's busiest international border station: owned by Swiss Federal Railways and partly operated by France's .

Zoo
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Zoo Basel is a zoological garden in the city of Basel, . Its official name is Zoologischer Garten Basel — or in English: Basel Zoological Garden.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saint-Louis and Weil am Rhein.

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is a city of 23,000 people in in the Grand-Est at the German and Swiss borders, just north of Basel. is rich in cultural resources and fun activities.

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is a German town and commune. It is on the east bank of the River Rhine, and extends to the of , , and Germany.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Basel

Latitude
47.5581° or 47° 33′ 29″ north
Longitude
7.5878° or 7° 35′ 16″ east
Population
174,000
Elevation
279 metres (915 feet)
IATA airport codes
BSL and EAP
United Nations Location Code
CH BSL
Open location code
8FV9HH5Q+64
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27284711
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2661604
Wiki­data ID
Q78
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Basel” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bâle”
  • Afrikaans: “Basel”
  • Albanian: “Bâle”
  • Albanian: “Basel”
  • Albanian: “Bazeli”
  • Amharic: “ባዝል”
  • Arabic: “بازل”
  • Arabic: “باسل”
  • Aragonese: “Basilea”
  • Armenian: “Բազել”
  • Arpitan: “Bâla”
  • Arpitan: “Bâle”
  • Asturian: “Bâle”
  • Asturian: “Basel”
  • Asturian: “Basilea”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bâle”
  • Azerbaijani: “Baza”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bazel”
  • Balinese: “Basel”
  • Basque: “Bâle”
  • Basque: “Basilea”
  • Belarusian: “Базель”
  • Belarusian: “Базэль”
  • Bengali: “বাজেল”
  • Bhojpuri: “बासेल”
  • Bhojpuri: “बेसल”
  • Bosnian: “Bâle”
  • Bosnian: “Basel”
  • Breton: “Bâle”
  • Breton: “Basel”
  • Bulgarian: “Базел”
  • Catalan: “Bâle”
  • Catalan: “Basilea”
  • Cebuano: “Basel (kapital sa kanton)”
  • Cebuano: “Basel”
  • Central Kurdish: “بازل”
  • Chavacano: “Bâle”
  • Chavacano: “Basilea”
  • Chechen: “Базель”
  • Chinese: “Basel”
  • Chinese: “巴塞尔”
  • Chinese: “巴塞爾”
  • Chinese: “巴泽尔”
  • Chuvash: “Базель”
  • Croatian: “Bâle”
  • Croatian: “Basel”
  • Czech: “Bâle”
  • Czech: “Basilej”
  • Danish: “Bâle”
  • Danish: “Basel”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bâle”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Basel”
  • Dutch: “Basel”
  • Dutch: “Bazel”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بازل”
  • Esperanto: “Basel”
  • Esperanto: “Bazelo”
  • Estonian: “Bâle”
  • Estonian: “Basel”
  • Faroese: “Bâle”
  • Faroese: “Basel”
  • Finnish: “Bâle”
  • Finnish: “Basel”
  • French: “Bâle”
  • French: “Basel”
  • Galician: “Bale”
  • Galician: “Bâle”
  • Galician: “Basel”
  • Galician: “Basilea”
  • Georgian: “ბაზელი”
  • German: “Bâle”
  • German: “Basel”
  • Greek: “Βασιλεία”
  • Gujarati: “બેસેલ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Bâle”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Basel”
  • Hausa: “Basel”
  • Hebrew: “באזל”
  • Hebrew: “בזל”
  • Hindi: “बाज़ल”
  • Hindi: “बेसल”
  • Hungarian: “Bâle”
  • Hungarian: “Bázel”
  • Icelandic: “Bâle”
  • Icelandic: “Basel”
  • Ido: “Bâle”
  • Ido: “Basel”
  • Inari Sami: “Basel”
  • Indonesian: “Bâle”
  • Indonesian: “Basel”
  • Interlingua: “Bâle”
  • Interlingua: “Basel”
  • Interlingue: “Bâle”
  • Interlingue: “Basel”
  • Irish: “Bâle”
  • Irish: “Basel”
  • Italian: “Bâle”
  • Italian: “Basilea”
  • Japanese: “バーゼル”
  • Javanese: “Bâle”
  • Javanese: “Basel”
  • Kabyle: “Bazel”
  • Kannada: “ಬಸೇಲ್”
  • Kannada: “ಬಾಸೆಲ್”
  • Kazakh: “Базель”
  • Kirghiz: “Базель”
  • Korean: “바젤”
  • Kotava: “Basel”
  • Kurdish: “Basel”
  • Ladin: “Basel”
  • Ladino: “Bâle”
  • Ladino: “Basilea”
  • Latin: “Bâle”
  • Latin: “Basilea”
  • Latin: “Basilia”
  • Latin: “Robur”
  • Latvian: “Bāzele”
  • Lingala: “Bâle”
  • Lithuanian: “Bazelis”
  • Lombard: “Bâle”
  • Lombard: “Basilea”
  • Low German: “Bâle”
  • Low German: “Basel”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bâle”
  • Luxembourgish: “Basel”
  • Macedonian: “Базел”
  • Malagasy: “Basel”
  • Malay: “Bâle”
  • Malay: “Basel”
  • Maltese: “Bażel”
  • Marathi: “बासल”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Bâle”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Basel”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bâle”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Basel”
  • Mingrelian: “ბაზელი”
  • Mongolian: “Базель хот”
  • Mongolian: “Базель”
  • Nauru: “Bâle”
  • Nauru: “Basel”
  • Neapolitan: “Bâle”
  • Neapolitan: “Basilea”
  • Nepali: “बेसेल”
  • Northern Frisian: “Baasel”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bāsel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bâle”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Basel”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bâle”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Basel”
  • Norwegian: “Basel”
  • Novial: “Basel”
  • Nyanja: “Bâle”
  • Nyanja: “Basel”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Basilèa”
  • Oromo: “Basel”
  • Ossetian: “Базель”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਾਸਲ”
  • Persian: “بازل”
  • Piemontese: “Basilea”
  • Polish: “Bâle”
  • Polish: “Bazylea”
  • Portuguese: “Bâle”
  • Portuguese: “Basileia”
  • Portuguese: “Basiléia”
  • Pushto: “بازل شتادت”
  • Pushto: “بیزل”
  • Quechua: “Bâle”
  • Quechua: “Basel”
  • Romanian: “Bâle”
  • Romanian: “Basel”
  • Romansh: “Bâle”
  • Romansh: “Basilea.”
  • Romansh: “Basilea”
  • Russian: “Базель”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Bâle”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Basel”
  • Scots: “Bâle”
  • Scots: “Basel”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bâle”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Basel”
  • Serbian: “Базел”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bâle”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Basel”
  • Sicilian: “Basilea”
  • Silesian: “Basel”
  • Sinhala: “බැසෙල්”
  • Slovak: “Bâle”
  • Slovak: “Bazilej”
  • Slovenian: “Bâle”
  • Slovenian: “Basel”
  • Somali: “Basel”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بازل”
  • Spanish: “Bâle”
  • Spanish: “Basilea”
  • Swahili: “Bâle”
  • Swahili: “Basel”
  • Swedish: “Bâle”
  • Swedish: “Basel”
  • Swedish: “Basilea”
  • Swiss German: “Basel”
  • Tagalog: “Bâle”
  • Tagalog: “Basel”
  • Tajik: “Базел”
  • Tajik: “Базель”
  • Tamil: “பேசெல்”
  • Tatar: “Базел”
  • Tatar: “Базель”
  • Telugu: “బాసెల్”
  • Thai: “บาเซิล”
  • Tibetan: “པ་སེལ།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Basel”
  • Turkish: “Bâle”
  • Turkish: “Basel BS”
  • Turkish: “Basel”
  • Turkish: “Basilea”
  • Turkish: “Basilia”
  • Twi: “Basel”
  • Ukrainian: “Базель”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Bâle”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Basel”
  • Urdu: “بازل”
  • Urdu: “بازیل”
  • Uzbek: “Bâle”
  • Uzbek: “Bazel”
  • Venetian: “Bâle”
  • Venetian: “Baxiłea”
  • Venetian: “Bazilea”
  • Veps: “Bazel‘”
  • Vietnamese: “Bâle”
  • Vietnamese: “Basel”
  • Vlaams: “Bazel”
  • Volapük: “Bâle”
  • Volapük: “Basel”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bâle”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Basel”
  • Welsh: “Bâle”
  • Welsh: “Basel”
  • Western Armenian: “Պազել”
  • Western Frisian: “Bâle”
  • Western Frisian: “Basel”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴塞尔”
  • Wu Chinese: “白才尔”
  • Yiddish: “באזעל”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴塞爾”
  • Zeeuws: “Bazel”

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