Bridgetown
Bridgetown is the capital and only city of Barbados. In 2026 it had a population of 84,700, about half the island's population, and many more commute in.
- Type: City with 110,000 residents
- Description: capital of Barbados
- Also known as: “Brixhtaun”, “The Bridge Town”, “Μπρίτζταουν”, “Бріджтаун”, “Брыджтаун”, “ბრიჯთაუნი”, “بریج تاون”, “ብሪጅታውን”, “ब्रीज टाउन”, “பிரிஜ்டவுன்”, “ப்ரிஜ்டவுன்”, “బ్రిడ్జి పట్టణం”, “པུ་རུའི་ཀྲི་ཐོན་”, “브릿지타운”, and “布里奇頓”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Kensington Oval and Nidhe Israel Synagogue.
Kensington Oval
Stadium
The Kensington Oval is a stadium located in the western part of Bridgetown, Barbados.
Parliament Buildings
Government office
Photo: Regani, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hastings and Brighton.
Bridgetown
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Saint Michael, Barbados, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
13.0978° or 13° 5′ 52″ north
Longitude
-59.6184° or 59° 37′ 6″ west
Population
110,000
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
IATA airport code
BGI
UN/LOCODE
BB BGI
Open location code
785239XJ+4J
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Bridgetown” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Bridgetown, Barbados”
- Afrikaans: “Bridgetown”
- Albanian: “Bridgetown”
- Amharic: “ብርጅታውን”
- Arabic: “بريدج تاون”
- Aragonese: “Bridgetown”
- Armenian: “Բրիջթաուն”
- Arpitan: “Bridgetown”
- Asturian: “Bridgetown”
- Aymara: “Bridgetown”
- Azerbaijani: “Brictaun”
- Balinese: “Bridgetown”
- Basque: “Bridgetown”
- Bavarian: “Bridgetown”
- Belarusian: “Брыджтаўн”
- Bengali: “ব্রিজটাউন”
- Bosnian: “Bridgetown”
- Breton: “Bridgetown”
- Bulgarian: “Бриджтаун”
- Catalan: “Bridgetown”
- Cebuano: “Bridgetown (ulohang dakbayan)”
- Cebuano: “Bridgetown”
- Central Kurdish: “بریجتاون”
- Chechen: “Бриджтаун”
- Chinese: “布里奇敦”
- Chinese: “布里奇顿”
- Chinese: “橋鎮”
- Cornish: “Bridgetown”
- Croatian: “Bridgetown”
- Czech: “Bridgetown”
- Danish: “Bridgetown”
- Dimli (individual language): “Bridgetown”
- Dutch: “Bridgetown”
- Eastern Mari: “Бриджтаун”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بريدج تاون”
- Esperanto: “Briĝtaŭno”
- Esperanto: “Briĝurbo”
- Estonian: “Bridgetown”
- Faroese: “Bridgetown”
- Fiji Hindi: “Bridgetown”
- Finnish: “Bridgetown”
- French: “Bridgetown”
- Galician: “Bridgetown”
- Georgian: “ბრიჯტაუნი”
- German: “Bridgetown”
- Greek: “Bridgetown”
- Greek: “Μπριτζτάουν”
- Gujarati: “બ્રિજટાઉન”
- Haitian: “Brijtòn”
- Hakka Chinese: “Bridgetown”
- Hausa: “Bridgetown”
- Hebrew: “ברידג’טאון”
- Hindi: “ब्रिजटाउन”
- Hungarian: “Bridgetown”
- Icelandic: “Bridgetown”
- Ido: “Bridgetown”
- Inari Sami: “Bridgetown”
- Indonesian: “Bridgetown”
- Interlingue: “Bridgetown”
- Irish: “Bridgetown”
- Italian: “Bridgetown”
- Japanese: “ブリッジタウン”
- Javanese: “Bridgetown”
- Kalo Finnish Romani: “Bridgetown”
- Kannada: “ಬ್ರಿಡ್ಜ್ ಟೌನ್”
- Karekare: “Bridgetown”
- Kashmiri: “برِٛج ٹاؤن”
- Kazakh: “Бриджтаун”
- Kildin Sami: “Бриджтаун”
- Kirghiz: “Бриджтаун”
- Korean: “브리지타운”
- Kotava: “Bridgetown”
- Kurdish: “Brîc tawn”
- Kurdish: “Bridgetown”
- Latin: “Pontipolis”
- Latvian: “Bridžtauna”
- Ligurian: “Bridgetown”
- Lithuanian: “Bridžtaunas”
- Livvi: “Bridžtaun”
- Lombard: “Bridgetown”
- Lule Sami: “Bridgetown”
- Luxembourgish: “Bridgetown”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Bridgetown”
- Macedonian: “Бриџтаун”
- Malagasy: “Bridgetown”
- Malay: “Bridgetown”
- Malayalam: “ബ്രിഡ്ജ്ടൗൺ”
- Maltese: “Bridgetown”
- Marathi: “ब्रिजटाउन”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Bridgetown”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bridgetown”
- Minangkabau: “Bridgetown”
- Mingrelian: “ბრიჯტაუნი”
- Moksha: “Бриджтаун”
- Mongolian: “Брижтаун”
- Moroccan Arabic: “بريدج تاون”
- Moroccan Arabic: “بريدجطاون”
- Northern Frisian: “Bridgetown”
- Northern Sami: “Bridgetown”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bridgetown”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bridgetown”
- Norwegian: “Bridgetown”
- Novial: “Bridgetown”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bridgetown”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Brycgtūn”
- Ossetian: “Бриджтаун”
- Panjabi: “ਬ੍ਰਿਜਟਾਊਨ”
- Panjabi: “ਬ੍ਰਿੱਜਟਾਊਨ”
- Papiamento: “Bridgetown”
- Persian: “بریجتاون”
- Piemontese: “Bridgetown”
- Pite Sami: “Bridgetown”
- Polish: “Bridgetown”
- Portuguese: “Bridgetown”
- Romanian: “Bridgetown”
- Russian: “Бриджтаун”
- Sardinian: “Bridgetown”
- Saterfriesisch: “Bridgetown”
- Scots: “Bridgetown”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bridgetown”
- Serbian: “Бриџтаун”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bridgetown”
- Shona: “Bridgetown”
- Silesian: “Bridgetown”
- Sindhi: “برج ٽائون”
- Sinhala: “බ්රිජ්ටවුන්”
- Skolt Sami: “Bridgetown”
- Slovak: “Bridgetown”
- Slovenian: “Bridgetown”
- Southern Sami: “Bridgetown”
- Spanish: “Bridgetown”
- Swahili: “Bridgetown”
- Swedish: “Bridgetown”
- Swiss German: “Bridgetown”
- Tagalog: “Bridgetown”
- Tajik: “Бриҷтаун”
- Tamil: “பிரிஜ்டவுண்”
- Tatar: “Бриҗтаун”
- Telugu: “బ్రిడ్జిటౌన్”
- Thai: “บริดจ์ทาวน์”
- Tibetan: “པུ་རུའི་ཀྲི་ཐོན།”
- Tok Pisin: “Bridjtaun”
- Tornedalen Finnish: “Bridgetown”
- Turkish: “Bridgetown”
- Turkmen: “Bridjtaun”
- Udmurt: “Бриджтаун”
- Ukrainian: “Бриджтаун”
- Ume Sami: “Bridgetown”
- Urdu: “برج ٹاؤن”
- Uzbek: “Bridjtaun”
- Uzbek: “Brijtaun”
- Venetian: “Bridgetown”
- Veps: “Bridžtaun”
- Vietnamese: “Bridgetown”
- Vlax Romani: “Bridgetown”
- Volapük: “Bridgetown”
- Võro: “Bridgetown”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bridgetown”
- Welsh: “Bridgetown”
- Western Frisian: “Bridgetown”
- Western Panjabi: “برج ٹاؤن”
- Wu Chinese: “布里奇顿”
- Yakut: “Бридьтаун”
- Yoruba: “Bridgetown”
- Yue Chinese: “橋鎮”
- Zulu: “i-Bridgetown”
- “Bridgetown”
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