Bluefields
Bluefields is a city and municipality on the central Mosquito Coast, and capital of the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region, Nicaragua. Historically, it held far greater significance as the political and administrative capital of the Kingdom of Mosquitia, which maintained independence and later protectorate status under Great Britain during the 17th to 19th centuries.
- Type: City with 54,500 residents
- Description: municipality in the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region, Nicaragua
- Also known as: “Bardas Bluefields”, “Bashkia Bluefields”, “Blauvelt”, “Blewfield”, “Bliufildsas pašvaldība”, “Bliufildso savivaldybė”, “Bluefields (đô thị)”, “Bluefields (gemeente)”, “Bluefields (gmina)”, “Bluefields (kommun)”, “Bluefields (municipalité)”, “Bluefields (Municipio)”, “Bluefields (município)”, “Bluefields (Nicaragua)”, “Bluefields (udalerria)”, “Bluefields (δήμος)”, “Bluefields (муниципалитет)”, “Bluefields Belediyesi”, “Bluefields chhī-tìn”, “Bluefields chhiūⁿ”, “Bluefields kommun”, “Bluefields kommuna”, “Bluefields kommune”, “Bluefields Kommune”, “Bluefields község”, “Bluefields Municipality”, “Bluefields nga Munisipyo”, “Bluefields-munisipaliteit”, “Bluefields（市镇）”, “Bluefields（自治体）”, “Bluefieldsi omavalitsus”, “Bluefieldsin kunta”, “Bluefieldsko udalerria”, “Bluefields市镇”, “Bluefields自治体”, “Blufilds bələdiyyəsi”, “Blufilds munisipaliteti”, “Blufilds munitsipaliteti”, “Bwrdeistref Bluefields”, “Chhiūⁿ Bluefields”, “Comene di Bluefields”, “Comun de Bluefields”, “Comune di Bluefields”, “Comunu de Bluefields”, “Conceyu de Bluefields”, “Cumuni di Bluefields”, “Degmada Bluefields”, “Đô thị Bluefields”, “Gemeen Bluefields”, “Gemeente Bluefields”, “Gemeênte Bluefields”, “Gemeinde Bluefields”, “Gemeinde von Bluefields”, “Gemeinte Bluefields”, “Gemeng Bluefields”, “Gmeind Bluefields”, “Gmejna Bluefields”, “Gmina Bluefields”, “Gmoa Bluefields”, “Ìjọba Ìbílẹ̀ Bluefields”, “Kaominina Bluefields”, “Komine ya Bluefields”, “Kumun Bluefields”, “Ƙaramar Hukumar Bluefields”, “Manispaa ya Bluefields”, “Masepala oa Bluefields”, “Masipala wa Bluefields”, “Mmasepala wa Bluefields”, “Municipalitá de Bluefields”, “Municipalità di Bluefields”, “Muniċipalità ta‘ Bluefields”, “Municipalitat de Bluefields”, “Municipalitatea Bluefields”, “Municipalité de Bluefields”, “Municipality of Bluefields”, “Municipi de Bluefields”, “Municipio de Bluefields”, “Município de Bluefields”, “Municipium Bluefields”, “Municipo Bluefields”, “Munisipalidad ng Bluefields”, “Munisipalidad sa Bluefields”, “Munisipalitas Bluefields”, “Munisipyo sa Bluefields”, “Občina Bluefields”, “Obec Bluefields”, “Ọchịchị obodo Bluefields”, “Općina Bluefields”, “Perbandaran Bluefields”, “Şaredariya Bluefields”, “Sgìre-bhaile Bluefields”, “Sveitarfélagið Bluefields”, “UMasipala waseBluefields”, “Vischnanca da Bluefields”, “Δήμος Bluefields”, “Δήμος Μπλούφιλντς”, “Блуфилдс муниципалитет”, “Блуфилдс муниципалитети”, “Блуфилдс муниципалитеті”, “Блуфилдс муниципалитеты”, “Блуфилдсонь муниципалитет”, “Блуфилдсы муниципалитет”, “Муниципалитет Bluefields”, “Муниципалитет Блуфилдс”, “Муниципалитети Блуфилдс”, “Муніципалітет Блуфілдс”, “муніцыпалітэт Блуфілдс”, “Община Блуфилдс”, “Општина Блуфилдс”, “ბლუეფილდსი”, “ბლუფილდზის მუნიციპალიტეტი”, “Բլուֆիլդս համայնք”, “הרשות המקומית בלופילדס”, “بلدية بلوفيلدز”, “بلدیہ بلوفیلڈز”, “جماعة بلوفيلدز”, “د بلوفیلډز ښاروالۍ”, “شارەوانیی بلووفیلدز”, “شهرداری بلوفیلدز”, “ምምሕዳር ከተማ ብሉፊልድስ”, “የብሉፊልድስ ማዘጋጃ ቤት”, “ब्लुफिल्ड्स नगरपालिका”, “ब्लूफिल्डस नगरपालिका”, “ब्लूफ़ील्ड्स नगरपालिका”, “ব্লুফিল্ডছ পৌৰসভা”, “ব্লুফিল্ডস পৌরসভা”, “ਬਲੂਫੀਲਡਜ਼ ਨਗਰਪਾਲਿਕਾ”, “બ્લુફિલ્ડ્સ નગરપાલિકા”, “ବ୍ଲୁଫିଲ୍ଡସ୍ ପୌରପାଳିକା”, “புளூஃபீல்ட்ஸ் நகராட்சி”, “బ్లూఫీల్డ్స్ పురపాలక సంఘం”, “ಬ್ಲೂಫೀಲ್ಡ್ಸ್ ಪುರಸಭೆ”, “ബ്ലൂഫീൽഡ്സ് മുനിസിപ്പാലിറ്റി”, “බ්ලූෆිල්ඩ්ස් නගර සභා බලප්රදේශය”, “เทศบาลบลูฟิลส์”, “ເທດສະບານບລູຟີລດສ໌”, “ဘလူးဖီးလ်ဒ်စ် မြူနီစီပယ်”, “ក្រុងប៊្លូហ្វីលដ៍”, “블루필즈 지방 자치체”, “ブルー・フィールズ”, “ブルーフィールズ自治体”, “布卢菲尔兹市镇”, and “布盧菲爾茲市鎮”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Estadio Glorias Costeñas and Bluefields Airport.
Bluefields
Latitude
12.0132° or 12° 0′ 47″ north
Longitude
-83.7649° or 83° 45′ 54″ west
Population
54,500
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
IATA airport code
BEF
UN/LOCODE
NI BEF
Open location code
764R267P+72
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Bluefields” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Bluefields”
- Albanian: “Bluefields”
- Amharic: “ብሉፊልድስ”
- Arabic: “بلوفيلدز، نيكاراغوا”
- Arabic: “بلوفيلدز”
- Aragonese: “Bluefields”
- Armenian: “Բլուֆիլդս”
- Assamese: “ব্লুফিল্ডছ”
- Asturian: “Bluefields”
- Azerbaijani: “Bluefields”
- Azerbaijani: “Blufilds”
- Bashkir: “Блуфилдс”
- Basque: “Bluefields”
- Bavarian: “Bluefields”
- Belarusian: “Блуфілдс”
- Bengali: “ব্লুফিল্ডস”
- Bosnian: “Bluefields”
- Breton: “Bluefields”
- Bulgarian: “Блуфилдс”
- Burmese: “ဘလူးဖီးလ်ဒ်စ်”
- Catalan: “Bluefields”
- Cebuano: “Bluefields”
- Central Kurdish: “بلووفیلدز”
- Chinese: “布卢菲尔兹”
- Chinese: “布盧菲爾茲”
- Corsican: “Bluefields”
- Croatian: “Bluefields”
- Czech: “Bluefields”
- Danish: “Bluefields”
- Dutch: “Bluefields”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بلوفيلدز”
- Esperanto: “Bluefields”
- Estonian: “Bluefields”
- Faroese: “Bluefields”
- Finnish: “Bluefields”
- French: “Bluefields”
- Galician: “Bluefields”
- Georgian: “ბლუფილდზი”
- German: “Bluefields”
- Greek: “Μπλούφιλντς”
- Gujarati: “બ્લુફિલ્ડ્સ”
- Hausa: “Bluefields”
- Hebrew: “בלופילדס”
- Hindi: “ब्लूफील्ड्स”
- Hindi: “ब्लूफ़ील्ड्स”
- Hungarian: “Bluefields”
- Icelandic: “Bluefields”
- Ido: “Bluefields”
- Igbo: “Bluefields”
- Indonesian: “Bluefields”
- Interlingua: “Bluefields”
- Interlingue: “Bluefields”
- Irish: “Bluefields”
- Italian: “Bluefields”
- Japanese: “ブルーフィールズ”
- Javanese: “Bluefields”
- Kannada: “ಬ್ಲೂಫೀಲ್ಡ್ಸ್”
- Kashubian: “Bluefields”
- Kazakh: “Блуфилдс”
- Kazakh: “Блюфилдс”
- Khmer: “ប៊្លូហ្វីលដ៍”
- Kinyarwanda: “Bluefields”
- Kirghiz: “Блуфилдс”
- Kirghiz: “Блюфилдс”
- Korean: “블루필즈”
- Kurdish: “Bluefields”
- Lao: “ບລູຟີລດສ໌”
- Latin: “Bluefields”
- Latvian: “Bliufildsa”
- Latvian: “Blūfīldsa”
- Limburgan: “Bluefields”
- Lithuanian: “Bliufildsas”
- Lithuanian: “Blufildsas”
- Low German: “Bluefields”
- Lower Sorbian: “Bluefields”
- Luxembourgish: “Bluefields”
- Macedonian: “Блуфилдс”
- Malagasy: “Bluefields”
- Malay: “Bluefields”
- Malayalam: “ബ്ലൂഫീൽഡ്സ്”
- Maltese: “Bluefields”
- Marathi: “ब्लूफिल्डस”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bluefields”
- Moksha: “Блуфилдс”
- Mongolian: “Блуфилдс”
- Moroccan Arabic: “بلوفيلدز”
- Nepali: “ब्लुफिल्ड्स”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bluefields”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bluefields”
- Norwegian: “Bluefields”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bluefields”
- Oriya: “ବ୍ଲୁଫିଲ୍ଡସ୍”
- Oromo: “Bluefields”
- Ossetian: “Блуфилдс”
- Panjabi: “ਬਲੂਫੀਲਡਜ਼”
- Persian: “بلوفیلدز”
- Polish: “Bluefields”
- Portuguese: “Bluefields”
- Pushto: “بلوفیلډز”
- Romanian: “Bluefields”
- Romansh: “Bluefields”
- Russian: “Блуфилдс”
- Sardinian: “Bluefields”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bluefields”
- Serbian: “Блуфилдс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bluefields”
- Sicilian: “Bluefields”
- Silesian: “Bluefields”
- Sinhala: “බ්ලූෆිල්ඩ්ස්”
- Slovak: “Bluefields”
- Slovenian: “Bluefields”
- Somali: “Bluefields”
- Southern Sotho: “Bluefields”
- Spanish: “Bluefields”
- Sundanese: “Bluefields”
- Swahili: “Bluefields”
- Swedish: “Bluefields”
- Swiss German: “Bluefields”
- Tagalog: “Bluefields”
- Tajik: “Блуфилдс”
- Tajik: “Блюфилдс”
- Tamil: “புளூஃபீல்ட்ஸ்”
- Tatar: “Блуфилдс”
- Tatar: “Блюфилдс”
- Telugu: “బ్లూఫీల్డ్స్”
- Thai: “บลูฟิลส์”
- Tigrinya: “ብሉፊልድስ”
- Tsonga: “Bluefields”
- Tswana: “Bluefields”
- Turkish: “Bluefields”
- Turkmen: “Blufilds”
- Ukrainian: “Блуфілдс”
- Upper Sorbian: “Bluefields”
- Urdu: “بلوفیلڈز”
- Urdu: “بلیو فیلڈز”
- Uzbek: “Bluefields”
- Uzbek: “Blufilds”
- Venetian: “Bluefields”
- Vietnamese: “Bluefields”
- Vlaams: “Bluefields”
- Walloon: “Bluefields”
- Welsh: “Bluefields”
- Western Frisian: “Bluefields”
- Xhosa: “Bluefields”
- Yoruba: “Bluefields”
- Yue Chinese: “布盧菲爾茲”
- Zulu: “Bluefields”
- “Bluefields”
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