Basel
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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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Basel
- Location: Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
- Population: 178,000
- Latitude: 47.5577° or 47° 33' 27.8" north
- Longitude: 7.5936° or 7° 35' 37" east
- Elevation: 247 meters (810 feet)
- Neighbors: Saint-Louis and Weil am Rhein
- GeoNames ID: 7285161
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Other Names for Basel
- Arabic: بازل
- Armenian: Բազել
- Arpitan: Bâla
- Asturian: Basilea
- Basque: Basilea
- Belarusian: Горад Базель
- Bengali: বাজেল
- Bulgarian: Базел
- Catalan: Basilea
- Chinese: 巴塞尔
- Chuvash: Базель
- Czech: Basilej
- Dutch: Bazel
- Esperanto: Bazelo
- French: Bâle
- Galician: Basilea
- Georgian: ბაზელი
- German: Basel
- Greek: Βασιλεία
- Hebrew: בזל
- Hungarian: Bázel
- Italian: Basilea
- Japanese: バーゼル
- Korean: 바젤
- Latin: Basilia
- Latvian: Bāzele
- Lithuanian: Bazelis
- Lombard: Basilea
- Macedonian: Базел
- Marathi: बासेल
- Northern Frisian: Bāsel
- Occitan (post 1500): Basilèa
- Ossetian: Базель
- Persian: بازل
- Polish: Bazylea
- Portuguese: Basileia
- Portuguese: Basiléia
- Romansh: Basilea
- Russian: Базель
- Serbian: Базел
- Sicilian: Basilea
- Slovak: Bazilej
- Spanish: Basilea
- Tamil: பேசெல்
- Thai: บาเซิล
- Tibetan: པ་སེལ།
- Ukrainian: Базель
- Urdu: بازیل
- Venetian: Baxiłea
- Wu Chinese: 白才尔
- Yiddish: באזעל
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