Gustavia
Gustavia is the main town and capital of the island of Saint Barthélemy. Originally called Le Carénage, it was renamed in honor of King Gustav III of Sweden.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 9,790 residents
- Description: main settlement and capital city of St. Barthélemy
- Also known as: “Gustaf” and “Guthavia”
- Postal code: 97133
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gustaf III Airport and Fort Oscar.
Gustaf III Airport
Aerodrome
Gustaf III Airport, also known as Saint Barthélemy Airport, Rémy de Haenen Airport, sometimes as St. Jean Airport, is a public use airport located in the village of St. Jean on the Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy.
Fort Oscar
Fort
Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0.
Fort Oscar is an 18th century military fort in Gustavia, the capital of Saint Barthélemy. It sits at an elevation of 136 feet, overlooking the Gustavia harbor.
Fort Karl
Fort Karl is a historic military fort located in Gustavia, the capital of Saint Barthélemy. It was built by the Swedish in 1789 and was named for Karl XIII.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Colombier and Saint-Jean.
Colombier
Neighborhood
Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0.
Colombier is a quartier of Saint Barthélemy in the Caribbean. It is located in the northwestern part of the island.
Saint-Jean
Neighborhood
Saint-Jean is a quartier of Saint Barthélemy in the Caribbean. It is located in the northern part of the island. It contains one of the best known beaches on the island and is the centre of water sport activity on the island.
La Grande Montagne
Neighborhood
La Grande Montagne is a quartier of Saint Barthélemy in the Caribbean. It is located in the northwestern part of the island.
Gustavia
- Categories: quartier of Saint Barthélemy and locality
- Location: Saint-Barthélemy, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean, North America
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Latitude
17.8957° or 17° 53′ 45″ northLongitude
-62.8508° or 62° 51′ 3″ westPopulation
9,790Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)United Nations Location Code
BL GUSOpen location code
779VV4WX+7MOpenStreetMap ID
node 489348725OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Gustavia” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Gustavia”
- Albanian: “Gustavia”
- Arabic: “غوستافيا، سانت بارتيليمي”
- Aragonese: “Gustavia”
- Arpitan: “Gustavia”
- Asturian: “Gustavia”
- Azerbaijani: “Qustaviya”
- Bambara: “Gustavia”
- Basque: “Gustavia”
- Bavarian: “Gustavia”
- Belarusian: “Густавія”
- Bengali: “গুস্তভিয়া”
- Bosnian: “Gustavia, Saint Barthélemy”
- Bosnian: “Gustavia”
- Breton: “Gustavia”
- Bulgarian: “Густавия”
- Cajun French: “Gustavia”
- Catalan: “Gustavia”
- Cebuano: “Gustavia (ulohang dakbayan sa Saint Barthelemy)”
- Cebuano: “Gustavia”
- Chechen: “Густавия”
- Chinese: “Gustavia”
- Chinese: “古斯塔維亞”
- Chinese: “古斯塔维亚”
- Chinese: “居斯塔維亞”
- Chinese: “居斯塔维亚”
- Corsican: “Gustavia”
- Croatian: “Gustavia”
- Czech: “Gustavia”
- Danish: “Gustavia”
- Dutch: “Gustavia”
- Erzya: “Густавия”
- Esperanto: “Gustavia”
- Esperanto: “Gustavio”
- Estonian: “Gustavia”
- Faroese: “Gustavia”
- Finnish: “Gustavia”
- French: “Gustavia”
- French: “Le Carénage”
- Friulian: “Gustavia”
- Galician: “Gustavia”
- Georgian: “გუსტავია”
- German: “Gustavia”
- Greek: “Γουσταβία”
- Gujarati: “ગુસ્ટાવિઆ”
- Hebrew: “גוסטביה”
- Hindi: “गुस्ताविया”
- Hungarian: “Gustavia”
- Icelandic: “Gustavia”
- Ido: “Gustavia”
- Indonesian: “Gustavia”
- Interlingua: “Gustavia”
- Interlingue: “Gustavia”
- Irish: “Gustavia”
- Italian: “Gustavia”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Gustavia”
- Japanese: “グスタビア”
- Kabyle: “Gustavia”
- Kalaallisut: “Gustavia”
- Kannada: “ಗುಸ್ಟಾವಿಯಾ”
- Kazakh: “Густавия”
- Kongo: “Gustavia”
- Korean: “구스타비아”
- Korean: “귀스타비아”
- Latin: “Gustavia”
- Latvian: “Gustavia”
- Latvian: “Gustavija”
- Ligurian: “Gustavia”
- Limburgan: “Gustavia”
- Lithuanian: “Gustavija”
- Low German: “Gustavia”
- Luxembourgish: “Gustavia”
- Macedonian: “Густавија”
- Mainfränkisch: “Gustavia”
- Malagasy: “Gustavia”
- Malay: “Gustavia”
- Marathi: “गुस्ताव्हिया”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gustavia”
- Minangkabau: “Gustavia”
- Mongolian: “Густавиа”
- Narom: “Gustavia”
- Neapolitan: “Gustavia”
- Northern Frisian: “Gustavia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gustavia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gustavia”
- Norwegian: “Gustavia”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Gustavia (Sant Bartomieu)”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Gustavia”
- Ossetian: “Густави”
- Papiamento: “Gustavia”
- Persian: “گاستاویا”
- Persian: “گوستاویا”
- Picard: “Gustavia”
- Piemontese: “Gustavia”
- Polish: “Gustavia”
- Portuguese: “Gustavia”
- Portuguese: “Gustávia”
- Prussian: “Gustavia”
- Romagnol: “Gustavia”
- Romanian: “Gustavia”
- Romansh: “Gustavia”
- Russian: “Густавия”
- Sardinian: “Gustavia”
- Sardinian: “Gustàvia”
- Scots: “Gustavia”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gustavia”
- Serbian: “Gustavia”
- Serbian: “Густавија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gustavia”
- Sicilian: “Gustavia”
- Sinhala: “ගස්ටාවියා”
- Sinhala: “ගුස්ටාවියා, ශාන්ත බර්තෙලමි”
- Slovak: “Gustavia”
- Slovenian: “Gustavia”
- Spanish: “Gustavia”
- Swahili: “Gustavia”
- Swedish: “Gustavia”
- Swiss German: “Gustavia”
- Tagalog: “Gustavia”
- Tajik: “Густавия”
- Tamil: “கஸ்டாவியா”
- Tamil: “குசுதாவியா, செயின்ட் பார்த்தெலெமி”
- Tamil: “குசுதாவியா”
- Telugu: “గుస్టావియా”
- Thai: “กุสตาวียา”
- Turkish: “Gustavia”
- Turkmen: “Gustawiýa”
- Ukrainian: “Густавія”
- Urdu: “گوسٹاویا”
- Uzbek: “Gustaviya”
- Venetian: “Gustavia”
- Vietnamese: “Gustavia”
- Vlaams: “Gustavia”
- Volapük: “Gustavia”
- Walloon: “Gustavia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gustavia, Saint Barthelemy”
- Welsh: “Gustavia”
- Wolof: “Gustavia”
- Yoruba: “Gustavia, Saint Barthélemy”
- Zulu: “Gustavia”
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