Lesser Antilles
Barbados
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Bridgetown

Bridgetown is the capital and only city of . In 2014 it had a population of 110,000, about half the island's population, and many more commute in.
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  • Type: City with 110,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Barbados
  • Also known as: “The Bridge Town”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kensington Oval and Nidhe Israel Synagogue.

Stadium
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.
The is a stadium located in the western part of Bridgetown, . It is the pre-eminent sporting facility on the island and is primarily used for cricket.

Photo: NYC2TLV, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Nidḥe Israel Synagogue is a Conservative Jewish congregation and synagogue, located on Synagogue Lane in Bridgetown, . It is the only synagogue in Barbados, and is bordered by the wider Magazine Lane, James, Coleridge and Pinfold streets, it is a part of the Synagogue Historic District.

Government office
Photo: Regani, Public domain.
The , is the seat of the Parliament of . Built between 1870 and 1874, the buildings have been the meeting place for both chambers of Parliament since 16 June 1874, and a former site of Colonial administration of Barbados.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brighton and Wildey.

Suburb
is a town located in the Parish of .

Suburb
The area of the Parish of located roughly 4 km east of Bridgetown, it lies on the border with the Parish of . Normally a very busy area with the ABC Highway, is one of the main convergence points for vehicles travelling either towards the capital-city Bridgetown or towards points in northern .

Suburb
is an area two miles away from Bridgetown, in . The area was historically one of the railway stations on the island of Barbados.

Bridgetown

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
United Nations Location Code
BB BGI
Open location code
785239XJ+4J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 246518890
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3374036
Wiki­data ID
Q36168
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Bridgetown” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bridgetown, Barbados”
  • Afrikaans: “Bridgetown”
  • Albanian: “Bridgetown”
  • Albanian: “Brixhtaun”
  • Amharic: “ብሪጅታውን”
  • Amharic: “ብርጅታውን”
  • Arabic: “بريدج تاون”
  • Aragonese: “Bridgetown”
  • Armenian: “Բրիջթաուն”
  • Arpitan: “Bridgetown”
  • Asturian: “Bridgetown”
  • Aymara: “Bridgetown”
  • Azerbaijani: “Brictaun”
  • Balinese: “Bridgetown”
  • Basque: “Bridgetown”
  • Bavarian: “Bridgetown”
  • Belarusian: “Брыджтаун”
  • Belarusian: “Брыджтаўн”
  • Bengali: “ব্রিজটাউন”
  • Bosnian: “Bridgetown”
  • Breton: “Bridgetown”
  • Bulgarian: “Бриджтаун”
  • Catalan: “Bridgetown”
  • Cebuano: “Bridgetown (ulohang dakbayan)”
  • Cebuano: “Bridgetown”
  • Chechen: “Бриджтаун”
  • Chinese: “Bridgetown”
  • Chinese: “布里奇敦”
  • Chinese: “布里奇頓”
  • 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: “ბრიჯთაუნი”
  • Georgian: “ბრიჯტაუნი”
  • German: “Bridgetown”
  • Greek: “Bridgetown”
  • Greek: “Μπριτζτάουν”
  • Greek: “Μπρίτζταουν”
  • 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”
  • Kazakh: “Бриджтаун”
  • Kildin Sami: “Бриджтаун”
  • Kirghiz: “Бриджтаун”
  • Korean: “브리지타운”
  • Korean: “브릿지타운”
  • Kotava: “Bridgetown”
  • Kurdish: “Brîc tawn”
  • Kurdish: “Bridgetown”
  • Latin: “Pontipolis”
  • Latvian: “Bridgetown”
  • 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”
  • Marathi: “ब्रीज टाउन”
  • 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: “بریج تاون”
  • 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”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bridžtaun”
  • Shona: “Bridgetown”
  • Silesian: “Bridgetown”
  • 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”
  • Tamil: “பிரிஜ்டவுன்”
  • Tamil: “ப்ரிஜ்டவுன்”
  • Tatar: “Бриҗтаун”
  • Telugu: “బ్రిడ్జి పట్టణం”
  • Telugu: “బ్రిడ్జిటౌన్”
  • Thai: “Bridgetown”
  • Thai: “บริดจ์ทาวน์”
  • Tibetan: “པུ་རུའི་ཀྲི་ཐོན་”
  • Tibetan: “པུ་རུའི་ཀྲི་ཐོན།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Bridjtaun”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Bridgetown”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Bridgetown”
  • Turkish: “Bridgetown”
  • Turkmen: “Bridjtaun”
  • Udmurt: “Бриджтаун”
  • Ukrainian: “Бриджтаун”
  • Ukrainian: “Бріджтаун”
  • 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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Bridgetown”. Photo: Loozrboy, CC BY-SA 2.0.