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
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: pengster, CC BY 2.0.
Kunstmuseum Basel
Museum
The Kunstmuseum Basel houses the largest and most significant public art collection in Switzerland… Photo: Wikimedia, FAL.
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… Photo: Basmus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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
- Type: City
- Description: city on the Rhine, in Switzerland
- Categories: municipality of Switzerland, cantonal capital of Switzerland, college town, city of Switzerland, border town and big city
- Location: Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
- Postal codes: 4000, 4001, 4031 and 4051-4059
- Neighbors: Saint-Louis and Weil am Rhein
Latitude 47.5581° or 47° 33' 29.2" north | Longitude 7.5878° or 7° 35' 16.2" east |
Population 174,000 | IATA airport codes EAP and BSL |
United Nations Location Code CH BSL | Elevation 279 metres (915 feet) |
OpenStreetMap ID node 27284711 | GeoNames ID 2661604 |
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Also 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
- Arpitan: Bâla
- Arpitan: Bâle
- Asturian: Basel
- Asturian: Basilea
- Asturian: Bâle
- 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
- 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 (individual language): Basel
- Dimli (individual language): Bâle
- Dutch: Basel
- Dutch: Bazel
- Egyptian 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
- French: Basel
- French: Bâle
- Galician: Bale
- Galician: Basel
- Galician: Basilea
- Galician: 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
- Ladino: Basilea
- Ladino: Bâle
- Latin: Basilea
- Latin: Basilia
- Latin: Bâle
- Latin: Robur
- Latvian: Bāzele
- Lingala: Bâle
- Lithuanian: Bazelis
- Lombard: Basilea
- Lombard: Bâle
- Low German: Basel
- Low German: Bâle
- Luxembourgish: Basel
- Luxembourgish: Bâle
- Macedonian: Базел
- Malay: Basel
- Malay: Bâle
- 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
- Nyanja: Basel
- Nyanja: Bâle
- Occitan (post 1500): Basilèa
- Ossetian: Базель
- Persian: بازل
- Piemontese: Basilea
- Polish: Bazylea
- Polish: Bâle
- Portuguese: Basileia
- Portuguese: Basiléia
- Portuguese: Bâle
- Pushto: بازل شتادت
- Quechua: Basel
- Quechua: Bâle
- Romanian: Basel
- Romanian: Bâle
- Romansh: Basilea.
- Romansh: Basilea
- Romansh: Bâle
- Russian: Базель
- Saterfriesisch: Basel
- Saterfriesisch: Bâle
- Scots: Basel
- Scots: Bâle
- Scottish Gaelic: Basel
- Scottish Gaelic: Bâle
- Serbian: Базел
- Serbo-Croatian: Basel
- Serbo-Croatian: Bâle
- Sicilian: Basilea
- Sicilian: Bâle
- Silesian: Basel
- Silesian: Bâle
- Sinhala: බැසෙල්
- Slovak: Bazilej
- Slovak: Bâle
- Slovenian: Basel
- Slovenian: Bâle
- South Azerbaijani: بازل
- Spanish: Basilea
- Spanish: Bâle
- Swahili: Basel
- Swahili: Bâle
- Swedish: Basel
- Swedish: Basilea
- Swedish: Bâle
- Swiss German: Basel
- Tagalog: Basel
- Tagalog: Bâle
- Tamil: பேசெல்
- Tatar: Базел
- Telugu: బాసెల్
- Thai: บาเซิล
- Tibetan: པ་སེལ།
- Tosk Albanian: Basel
- Turkish: Basel
- Turkish: Bâle
- Ukrainian: Базель
- Upper Sorbian: Basel
- Upper Sorbian: Bâle
- Urdu: بازل
- Urdu: بازیل
- Uzbek: Bazel
- Uzbek: Bâle
- Venetian: Baxilea
- Venetian: Baxiłea
- Venetian: Bâle
- Vietnamese: Basel
- Vietnamese: Bâle
- Volapük: Basel
- Volapük: Bâle
- Waray (Philippines): Basel
- Waray (Philippines): Bâle
- Welsh: Basel
- Welsh: Bâle
- Western Armenian: Պազել
- Western Frisian: Basel
- Western Frisian: Bâle
- Wu Chinese: 白才尔
- Yiddish: באזעל
- Yue Chinese: 巴塞爾
Other Places Named Basel
In the Area
Localities
- Kleinbasel Altstadt
- Basel-VorstaedteSuburb
- Basel-Am RingSuburb
- GrossbaselBorough
- Basel-ClaraSuburb
- Basel-MatthäusSuburb
Landmarks
- StadtmarktMarketplace
- Honorary Consulate of the Czech RepublicGovernment office
- Staatsarchiv BaselGovernment office
- Wohn- und Wehrturm SchneidergasseArchaeological site
- AugenarztpraxisHospital
- AndreaskapelleArchaeological site
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