Nevis
Nevis is the smaller of the two islands that make up the small Caribbean island nation, the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis. A former British colony, these islands became independent from Britain in 1983.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island and state in the Caribbean Sea
- Also known as: “Dulcina”, “Meavis”, “Meves”, “Mevis”, “Neves”, “Nevis Island”, and “Nievis”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nevis Peak and Pinney’s Beach.
Nevis Peak
Volcano
Photo: Jensonmorton, Public domain.
Nevis Peak is a potentially active volcano which is located in the centre of the island of Nevis of the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis in the West Indies.
Pinney’s Beach
Beach
Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0.
Pinney's Beach, also spelled Pinneys Beach, is a very long sandy beach on the western Caribbean coast of the island of Nevis, in Saint Kitts and Nevis, Leeward Islands in the West Indies.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Figtree and Market Shop.
Figtree
Town
Figtree is a town on the island of Nevis in Saint Kitts and Nevis. It is the capital of Saint John Figtree Parish.
Market Shop
Town
Market Shop is a village on the island of Nevis in Saint Kitts and Nevis. It is the capital of the Saint George Gingerland Parish.
Cotton Ground
Village
Cotton Ground is a town on the island of Nevis in Saint Kitts and Nevis. It is the capital of Saint Thomas Lowland Parish.
Nevis
- Categories: first-level administrative division, federated state, and landform
- Location: Saint Kitts and Nevis, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean, North America
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Satellite Map
Discover Nevis from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Nevis” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة نيفيس”
- Arabic: “نيفيس”
- Basque: “Nevis”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Невіс”
- Belarusian: “Невіс”
- Bengali: “নেভিস দ্বীপ”
- Bengali: “নেভিস”
- Breton: “Nevis”
- Bulgarian: “Невис”
- Catalan: “Nevis”
- Cebuano: “Nevis”
- Chinese: “尼維斯”
- Chinese: “尼維斯島”
- Chinese: “尼维斯”
- Chinese: “尼维斯岛”
- Czech: “Nevis”
- Danish: “Nevis”
- Dutch: “Nevis”
- Esperanto: “Neviso”
- Estonian: “Nevis”
- Finnish: “Nevis”
- French: “Île de Nevis”
- French: “Île Nevis”
- French: “Île Niévès”
- French: “Nevis”
- French: “Niévès”
- French: “TKPN”
- Galician: “Nevis”
- Georgian: “ნევისი”
- German: “Nevis”
- Greek: “Νέβις”
- Hebrew: “נוויס”
- Hungarian: “Nevis”
- Indonesian: “Nevis”
- Italian: “Nevis”
- Japanese: “ネイビス”
- Japanese: “ネイビス島”
- Korean: “네비스 섬”
- Korean: “네비스섬”
- Latin: “Insula Nivium”
- Latvian: “Nevisa”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Nevis”
- Lithuanian: “Nevis”
- Macedonian: “Невис”
- Northern Frisian: “Nevis”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nevis”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nevis”
- Norwegian: “Nevis”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Illa de las Nèus”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Nèus”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Nevis”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Nefis”
- Papiamento: “Nevis”
- Persian: “نویس”
- Polish: “Nevis”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Neves”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Nevis”
- Portuguese: “Neves”
- Portuguese: “Nevis”
- Romanian: “Insula Nevis”
- Romanian: “Nevis”
- Russian: “Невис”
- Scots: “Nevis”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Nevis”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Nibheis”
- Serbian: “Nevis”
- Serbian: “Невис”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nevis”
- Slovenian: “Nevis”
- Spanish: “Isla de Nieves”
- Spanish: “Isla Nieves”
- Spanish: “Nevis”
- Spanish: “Nieves”
- Swedish: “Nevis”
- Tamil: “நெவிசு”
- Thai: “นีวิส”
- Thai: “เนวิส”
- Turkish: “Nevis”
- Ukrainian: “Невіс”
- Urdu: “ناویس”
- Vietnamese: “Nevis”
- Waray (Philippines): “Nevis (purô)”
- Waray (Philippines): “Nevis”
- Welsh: “Nevis”
- Yue Chinese: “尼維斯島”
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