Basseterre

Basseterre on the west coast of the island of Saint Kitts is the capital city of the two-island nation, the Federation of . Basseterre is one of the oldest towns in the Eastern Caribbean, but most of the city structures were built after the great fire of 1867.
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  • Town with about 12,900 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around -70 feet (-20 metres)
  • …has the IATA airport code SKB
  • …is also known as “Basse Terre Town”
  • Description: capital of Saint Kitts and Nevis
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport and Warner Park Sporting Complex.
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Robert L. Bradshaw Airport, formerly known as Golden…
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is an athletic facility in Basseterre, St.
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, also known as Springfield House…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Monkey Hill.
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is a town in the southeast of the island of , in .

Basseterre

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Latitude
17.2961° or 17° 17′ 46″ north
Longitude
-62.7223° or 62° 43′ 20″ west
UN/LOCODE
KN BAS
Open location code
779V77WH+C3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 183864922
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3575551
Wiki­data ID
Q41295

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Basseterre” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Basseterre”
  • Amharic: “ባስቴር”
  • Arabic: “باستير”
  • Aragonese: “Basseterre”
  • Armenian: “Բաստեր”
  • Asturian: “Basseterre”
  • Azerbaijani: “Baster şəhəri”
  • Azerbaijani: “Baster”
  • Balinese: “Basseterre”
  • Basque: “Basseterre”
  • Belarusian: “Бастэр”
  • Bengali: “বাসেতেরে”
  • Bosnian: “Bassetere”
  • Bosnian: “Basseterre”
  • Breton: “Basseterre”
  • Bulgarian: “Басетере”
  • Bulgarian: “Бастер”
  • Catalan: “Basseterre”
  • Cebuano: “Basseterre”
  • Central Kurdish: “باستێر”
  • Chechen: “Бастер”
  • Chinese: “巴士地”
  • Chinese: “巴斯特尔”
  • Chinese: “巴斯特爾”
  • Croatian: “Basseterre”
  • Czech: “Basseterre”
  • Danish: “Basseterre”
  • Dutch: “Basseterre”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باستير”
  • Esperanto: “Basseterre”
  • Esperanto: “Bastero”
  • Estonian: “Basseterre”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Basseterre”
  • Finnish: “Basseterre”
  • French: “Basseterre”
  • Galician: “Basseterre”
  • Georgian: “ბასტერი”
  • German: “Basseterre”
  • Greek: “Μπαστέρ”
  • Haitian: “Bastè”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Basseterre”
  • Hebrew: “באסטר”
  • Hebrew: “בסטר”
  • Hindi: “बस्सेटेरे”
  • Hindi: “बासेटेयर”
  • Hindi: “बासेतेयर”
  • Hindi: “बेसेत्री”
  • Hungarian: “Basseterre”
  • Icelandic: “Basseterre”
  • Ido: “Basseterre”
  • Indonesian: “Basseterre”
  • Interlingue: “Basseterre”
  • Irish: “Basseterre”
  • Italian: “Basseterre”
  • Japanese: “バセテール”
  • Kazakh: “Бастер”
  • Kirghiz: “Бастер”
  • Korean: “바스테르”
  • Kotava: “Basseterre”
  • Latin: “Ima Tellus”
  • Latvian: “Basseterre”
  • Latvian: “Bastera”
  • Ligurian: “Basseterre”
  • Lithuanian: “Basteras”
  • Livvi: “Baster”
  • Lombard: “Basseterre”
  • Luxembourgish: “Basseterre”
  • Macedonian: “Бастер”
  • Malagasy: “Basseterre”
  • Malay: “Basseterre”
  • Marathi: “बासेतेर”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Basseterre”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Basseterre”
  • Minangkabau: “Basseterre”
  • Mingrelian: “ბასტერი”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “باس طير”
  • Northern Frisian: “Basseterre”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Basseterre”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Basseterre”
  • Norwegian: “Basseterre”
  • Novial: “Basseterre”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Basseterre”
  • Ossetian: “Бастер”
  • Papiamento: “Basseterre”
  • Persian: “باستر”
  • Persian: “باسه‌تر”
  • Piemontese: “Basseterre”
  • Polish: “Basseterre”
  • Portuguese: “Basseterre”
  • Pushto: “باستر”
  • Romanian: “Basseterre”
  • Russian: “Бастер”
  • Sardinian: “Basseterre”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Basseterre”
  • Scots: “Basseterre”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Basseterre”
  • Serbian: “Basseterre”
  • Serbian: “Бастер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Basseterre”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Baster”
  • Shona: “Basseterre”
  • Silesian: “Basseterre”
  • Sindhi: “باسٽيئر”
  • Slovak: “Basseterre”
  • Slovenian: “Basseterre”
  • Spanish: “Basseterre”
  • Swahili: “Basseterre”
  • Swedish: “Basseterre (huvudstaden i Saint Kitts och Nevis)”
  • Swedish: “Basseterre”
  • Swiss German: “Basseterre”
  • Tagalog: “Basseterre”
  • Tajik: “Бастер”
  • Tamil: “பசெடெரே”
  • Tamil: “பாசெட்டெரே”
  • Thai: “Basseterre”
  • Thai: “บาสแตร์”
  • Tibetan: “པ་སི་ཐེར།”
  • Turkish: “Basseterre”
  • Udmurt: “Бастер”
  • Ukrainian: “Бастер”
  • Urdu: “باسیتیر”
  • Urdu: “باسیٹرے”
  • Uzbek: “Baster”
  • Veps: “Baster”
  • Vietnamese: “Basseterre”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Basseterre”
  • Welsh: “Basseterre”
  • Western Frisian: “Basseterre”
  • Western Panjabi: “باسیتیر”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴斯特尔 (圣基茨搭尼维斯)”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴斯特尔（圣基茨尼维斯）”
  • Yakut: “Бастер”
  • Yoruba: “Basseterre”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴斯特爾”
  • Zulu: “i-Basseterre”

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