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.
Photo: Btibbets, Public domain.
- Type: Island
- Description: island and state in the Caribbean Sea
- Also known as: “Dulcina”, “Île de Nevis”, “Île Nevis”, “Île Niévès”, “Ilha Neves”, “Ilha Nevis”, “Isla de Nieves”, “Meavis”, “Meves”, “Mevis”, “Nèus”, “Nevis Island”, “Nieves”, “Nievis”, “TKPN”, “جزيرة نيفيس”, “নেভিস দ্বীপ”, and “ネイビス”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Nevis Peak and Pinney’s Beach.
Nevis Peak
Volcano
Photo: Jensonmorton, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include FigTree and Market Shop.
Nevis
- Categories: first-level administrative division, federated state, and landform
- Location: Saint Kitts and Nevis, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
17.1525° or 17° 9′ 9″ north
Longitude
-62.5867° or 62° 35′ 12″ west
Population
13,200
Elevation
2,402 feet (732 metres)
UN/LOCODE
KN NEV
Open location code
779V5C27+X8
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Satellite Map
Discover this place from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Nevis” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نيفيس”
- Basque: “Nevis”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Невіс”
- Belarusian: “Невіс”
- Bengali: “নেভিস”
- Breton: “Nevis”
- Bulgarian: “Невис”
- Catalan: “Nevis”
- Cebuano: “Nevis”
- Chinese: “尼維斯”
- Chinese: “尼维斯”
- Chinese: “尼维斯岛”
- Czech: “Nevis”
- Danish: “Nevis”
- Dutch: “Nevis”
- Esperanto: “Neviso”
- Estonian: “Nevis”
- Finnish: “Nevis”
- French: “Niévès”
- Galician: “Nevis”
- Georgian: “ნევისი”
- German: “Nevis”
- Greek: “Νέβις”
- Hebrew: “נוויס”
- Hungarian: “Nevis”
- Indonesian: “Nevis”
- Italian: “Nevis”
- 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”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Nefis”
- Papiamento: “Nevis”
- Persian: “نویس”
- Polish: “Nevis”
- Portuguese: “Neves”
- Portuguese: “Nevis”
- Romanian: “Insula Nevis”
- Russian: “Невис”
- Scots: “Nevis”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Nibheis”
- Serbian: “Nevis”
- Serbian: “Невис”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nevis”
- Slovenian: “Nevis”
- Spanish: “Isla 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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