Jonestown
The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known by its informal name "Jonestown", was a remote settlement in Guyana established by the Peoples Temple, an American religious movement under the leadership of Jim Jones.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality
- Description: former community established by the Peoples Temple, known for a mass death event on November 18, 1978
- Also known as: “Peoples Temple Agricultural Project”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Port Kaituma.
Port Kaituma
Town
Photo: Closedavid, Public domain.
Port Kaituma is a small village within the Barima-Waini administrative region of Guyana. It became known internationally as a gateway village to the Peoples Temple settlement in nearby Jonestown. It has long been a hub for mining in the area. Port Kaituma is situated 8 km northeast of Jonestown.
Jonestown
- Categories: human settlement and intentional community
- Location: Barima-Waini, Guyana, South America
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Latitude
7.68856° or 7° 41′ 19″ northLongitude
-59.94989° or 59° 56′ 60″ westOpen location code
68V2M3Q2+C2OpenStreetMap ID
node 4417303727OpenStreetMap feature
place=localityWikidata ID
Q985684
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Jonestown” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جونز تاون”
- Azerbaijani: “Corctaun”
- Belarusian: “Джонстаўн”
- Bengali: “জোন্সটাউন”
- Bulgarian: “Джоунстаун”
- Catalan: “Jonestown”
- Central Kurdish: “جۆنزتاون”
- Chinese: “強斯鎮”
- Chinese: “琼斯敦”
- Chinese: “琼斯镇”
- Chinese: “瓊斯鎮”
- Czech: “Jonestown”
- Danish: “Jonestown”
- Dutch: “Jonestown”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جونز تاون”
- Finnish: “Jonestown”
- French: “Jonestown”
- French: “jonstown-pe in guarany”
- German: “Jonestown”
- Greek: “Τζόουνσταουν”
- Hebrew: “ג’ונסטאון”
- Icelandic: “Jonestown”
- Ido: “Jonestown”
- Indonesian: “indwiki”
- Indonesian: “Jonestown”
- Irish: “Jonestown”
- Italian: “Jonestown”
- Japanese: “ジョーンズタウン”
- Japanese: “ピープルズ・テンプル・アグリカルチュラル・プロジェクト”
- Korean: “존스타운”
- Korean: “피플즈 템플 아그리컬처럴 프르”
- Lithuanian: “Džonstaunas”
- Malay: “Jonestown”
- Marathi: “जोन्सटाउन”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jonestown”
- Norwegian: “Jonestown”
- Persian: “جونز تاون”
- Polish: “Jonestown”
- Portuguese: “Jonestown”
- Portuguese: “Projeto Agrícola do Templo do Povo”
- Romanian: “Jonestown”
- Romanian: “Masacrul de la Jonestown”
- Russian: “Джонстаун (Гайана)”
- Russian: “Джонстаун (Храм народов)”
- Russian: “Джонстаун”
- Scots: “Jonestown”
- Serbian: “Džounstaun”
- Serbian: “Џонстаун”
- Serbian: “Џоунстаун (комуна)”
- Serbian: “Џоунстаун”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Jonestown”
- Slovenian: “Jonestown”
- Spanish: “Jonestown”
- Swedish: “Jonestown”
- Thai: “โจนส์ทาวน์”
- Ukrainian: “Джонстаун”
- Vietnamese: “Jonestown”
- Western Frisian: “Jonestown”
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