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Montserrat

The British Overseas Territory of Montserrat is an island in the , south-east of . This island was a very popular tourist destination until Hurricane Hugo caused widespread damage in 1989 and then in 1995, the island's volcano, Soufrière Hills, became active.
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  • Type: Country with 4,920 residents
  • Description: British overseas territory and island in the Caribbean
  • Also known as: “Island of Montserrat”, “Montserrat Colony of”, “Montserrat Presidency”, “ms”, “MS”, “MSR”, and “蒙塞拉特群岛”
  • Language: English

Montserrat

Latitude of center
16.7335° or 16° 44′ 1″ north
Longitude of center
-62.1936° or 62° 11′ 37″ west
Population
4,920
Area
102 km² (39 miles²)
Elevation
369 metres (1,211 feet)
Capital
Plymouth
Currency
Dollar (XCD)
Phone code
.ms
Internet domain
+1-664
IATA airport code
MNI
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424314005
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
3578097
Wiki­data ID
Q13353
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Montserrat” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Montserrat”
  • Akan: “Mantserat”
  • Albanian: “Montserat”
  • Albanian: “Montserrati”
  • Amharic: “ሞንትሠራት”
  • Amharic: “ሞንትሴራት”
  • Angika: “माँटसेराट”
  • Antigua and Barbuda Creole English: “Manserat”
  • Arabic: “مونتسرات”
  • Arabic: “مونتسيرات”
  • Aragonese: “Isla de Montserrat”
  • Aragonese: “Montserrat”
  • Armenian: “Մոնսեռատ”
  • Armenian: “Մոնտսերատ”
  • Arpitan: “Montsarrat”
  • Assamese: “ম’ণ্টছেৰাট”
  • Asturian: “Montserrat”
  • Azerbaijani: “Monserat”
  • Azerbaijani: “Montserrat”
  • Balinese: “Montserrat”
  • Bambara: “Moŋsera”
  • Bashkir: “Монтсеррат”
  • Basque: “Montserrat uhartea”
  • Basque: “Montserrat”
  • Belarusian: “Мансерат”
  • Belarusian: “Мансэрат”
  • Belarusian: “Мантсерат”
  • Bengali: “মন্টসেরাট”
  • Bishnupriya: “মন্টসের্রাট”
  • Bosnian: “Monserat”
  • Bosnian: “Montserrat”
  • Breton: “Enez Montserrat”
  • Breton: “Montserrat”
  • Bulgarian: “Монсерат”
  • Bulgarian: “Монтсерат”
  • Burmese: “မောင့်စဲရက်”
  • Catalan: “Illa de Montserrat”
  • Catalan: “Montserrat”
  • Chechen: “Монтсеррат”
  • Chinese: “Montserrat”
  • Chinese: “蒙哲臘”
  • Chinese: “蒙塞拉特”
  • Chinese: “蒙塞拉特島”
  • Chinese: “蒙特塞拉特”
  • Cornish: “Montserrat”
  • Croatian: “Montserat”
  • Croatian: “Montserrat”
  • Czech: “Montserrat”
  • Danish: “Montserrat”
  • Dhivehi: “މޮންސެރާޓު”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Montserrat”
  • Dutch: “Montserrat”
  • Dutch: “MS”
  • Dutch: “MSR”
  • Dzongkha: “མོན་ས་རཊ”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مونتسيرات”
  • Erzya: “Монтсеррат”
  • Esperanto: “Moncerato”
  • Esperanto: “Montserato”
  • Estonian: “Montserrat”
  • Ewe: “Montserrat nutome”
  • Faroese: “Montserrat”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Montserrat”
  • Finnish: “Montserrat”
  • French: “île de Montserrat”
  • French: “Montserrat”
  • Fulah: “Monseraat”
  • Gagauz: “Montserrat”
  • Galician: “Illa de Montserrat”
  • Galician: “Montserrat”
  • Ganda: “Monteseraati”
  • Georgian: “მონსერატი”
  • German: “Montserrat”
  • Gilaki: “مانتسرات”
  • Greek: “Μονσεράτ”
  • Greek: “Μοντσεράτ”
  • Greek: “Μοντσερράτ”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Montserrat (Zantiy)”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Montserrat”
  • Gujarati: “મોંટસેરાટ”
  • Gujarati: “મોંટસેરાત”
  • Haitian: “Monsera”
  • Haitian: “Montserrat”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Montserrat”
  • Hausa: “Manserati”
  • Hebrew: “מונטסראט”
  • Hebrew: “מונסראט”
  • Hindi: “मॉण्टसेराट”
  • Hindi: “मॉन्ट्सेराट”
  • Hindi: “मोंटसेरात”
  • Hungarian: “Montserrat”
  • Icelandic: “Montserrat”
  • Ido: “Montserrat”
  • Igbo: “Montserrat”
  • Inari Sami: “Montserrat”
  • Indonesian: “Montserrat”
  • Inupiaq: “Uluaqtuqtuq Iġġi”
  • Irish: “Montsarat”
  • Irish: “Montserrat”
  • Italian: “Montserrat”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Mansarat”
  • Japanese: “モントセラト”
  • Japanese: “モントセラト島”
  • Javanese: “Monsérat”
  • Javanese: “Montserrat”
  • Kalaallisut: “Montserrat”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾಂಟ್‌ಸೆರಟ್”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾಂಟ್‌ಸೆರೇಟ್”
  • Kannada: “ಮೋಂಟ್ಸೆರಾಟ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Montserrat”
  • Kashmiri: “مانٹسیراٹ”
  • Kazakh: “Монтсеррат”
  • Khmer: “ម៉ុងស៊ែរ៉ា”
  • Kikuyu: “Montserrati”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Monserati”
  • Kirghiz: “Монтсеррат”
  • Korean: “몬트세라트”
  • Korean: “몬트세랫”
  • Ladin: “Montserrat”
  • Lao: “ມອນເຊີຣາດ”
  • Latin: “Montserrat”
  • Latvian: “Montserrata”
  • Ligurian: “Montserrat”
  • Limburgan: “Montserrat”
  • Lingala: “Mɔsera”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Montserat”
  • Lithuanian: “Montseratas”
  • Lithuanian: “Montserratas”
  • Lombard: “Montserrat”
  • Low German: “Montserrat”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Musera”
  • Luxembourgish: “Montserrat”
  • Macedonian: “Монсерат”
  • Macedonian: “Монтсерат”
  • Malagasy: “Montserrat”
  • Malay: “Montserrat”
  • Malayalam: “മൊണ്ടെസരത്ത്”
  • Malayalam: “മോണ്ട്സെറാത്ത്”
  • Maltese: “Montserrat”
  • Marathi: “माँटसेराट”
  • Marathi: “मॉंटसेराट”
  • Marathi: “मॉन्ट्सेराट”
  • Mazanderani: “مونتسرات”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Montserrat”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Montserrat”
  • Mingrelian: “მონსერატი”
  • Mongolian: “Монтсеррат”
  • Nepali: “मोन्टसेर्राट”
  • North Ndebele: “Montserrat”
  • Northern Frisian: “Montserrat”
  • Northern Sami: “Montserrat”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Montserrat”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Montserrat”
  • Norwegian: “Montserrat”
  • Novial: “Montserat”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Montserrat”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Montserrat”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Muntserræt”
  • Oriya: “ମଣ୍ଟେସେରାଟ୍”
  • Ossetian: “Монтсеррат”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਾਂਟਸਰਾਤ”
  • Panjabi: “ਮੋਂਟਸੇਰਾਤ”
  • Papiamento: “Montserrat”
  • Persian: “مونتسرات”
  • Persian: “مونت‌سرات”
  • Picard: “Montserrat (Antilles)”
  • Picard: “Montserrat”
  • Piemontese: “Montserrat”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Montserrat”
  • Polish: “Montserrat”
  • Portuguese: “Monserrate”
  • Portuguese: “Montserrat”
  • Pushto: “مانټیسیرت”
  • Pushto: “مونتسرات”
  • Quechua: “Montserrat”
  • Romanian: “Montserrat”
  • Romansh: “Montserrat”
  • Rundi: “Monteserati”
  • Russian: “Монсеррат”
  • Russian: “Монтсеррат”
  • Sango: “Monserâte”
  • Scots: “Island o Montserrat”
  • Scots: “Montserrat”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Montsarat”
  • Serbian: “Монсерат”
  • Serbian: “Монтсерат”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Montserrat”
  • Shan: “မွၼ်းသိူဝ်းရၢတ်ႈ”
  • Shona: “Montserrat”
  • Sicilian: “Montserrat”
  • Sindhi: “مونٽسراٽ”
  • Sinhala: “මොන්ටෙසේරට්”
  • Sinhala: “මොන්සෙරාට්”
  • Slovak: “Montserrat”
  • Slovenian: “Monserat”
  • Slovenian: “Montserrat”
  • Somali: “Montserrat”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مونتسرات”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مونتسررات”
  • Spanish: “Montserrat”
  • Sundanese: “Montserrat”
  • Swahili: “Montserrat”
  • Swedish: “Montserrat”
  • Swiss German: “Montserrat”
  • Tagalog: “Montserrat”
  • Tajik: “Монтсеррат”
  • Tamil: “மாண்ட்செராட்”
  • Tamil: “மொன்செராட்”
  • Tatar: “Мансират”
  • Tatar: “Монтсеррат”
  • Telugu: “మాంట్సెరాట్”
  • Telugu: “మోంటుసెర్రాటు”
  • Thai: “มอนต์เซอร์รัต”
  • Tigrinya: “ሞንትሴራት”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Moʻungaselati”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Montserrat”
  • Turkish: “Montserrat”
  • Turkmen: “Monserrat”
  • Uighur: “مونتسەررات”
  • Uighur: “مونتسېررات”
  • Ukrainian: “Монтсеррат”
  • Urdu: “مانٹسریٹ”
  • Urdu: “مونٹسیراٹ”
  • Uzbek: “Montserrat”
  • Venetian: “Montserrat”
  • Vietnamese: “Montserrat”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Montserrat”
  • Welsh: “Montserrat”
  • Western Frisian: “Montserrat”
  • Western Mari: “Монтсеррат”
  • Western Panjabi: “مونتسرات”
  • Wolof: “Montserrat”
  • Wolof: “Mooseraa”
  • Wu Chinese: “蒙特塞拉特”
  • Yiddish: “מאנטסעראַט”
  • Yoruba: “Montserrat”
  • Yoruba: “Motserati”
  • Yue Chinese: “蒙塞拉特島”
  • Zulu: “i-Montserrat”
  • “ma Monsewa”
  • “Montserrat”
  • “MS”
  • “MSR”

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