Oranjestad

Oranjestad is the capital and largest city of . The city is home to some of the island's local residents and also many governmental buildings. Along the main "drag" you will find mostly tourist walking around and shopping and can also see the cruise ships that bring more and more external tourism into the island everyday.
  • Town with about 28,700 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 10 metres (20 feet)
  • …is also known as “Oranjestad, Aruba”
  • Description: capital city of Aruba

Places of Interest

Highlights include Queen Beatrix International Airport and Aruba National Library.
The National Library of Aruba is the main library of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Noord and Palm Beach.
is a town and region in .
is a beach resort on the island of , part of the .
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Latitude
12.5201° or 12° 31′ 12″ north
Longitude
-70.0371° or 70° 2′ 14″ west
UN/LOCODE
AW AUA and AW ORJ
Open location code
774FGXC7+24
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Oranjestad” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Oranjestad”
  • Albanian: “Oranjestad”
  • Arabic: “أورنجستاد”
  • Aragonese: “Oranjestad”
  • Asturian: “Oranjestad”
  • Asturian: “Oranxestad”
  • Azerbaijani: “Oranjestad”
  • Azerbaijani: “Oranyestad”
  • Basque: “Oranjestad”
  • Belarusian: “Араньестад (Аруба)”
  • Belarusian: “Араньестад”
  • Bosnian: “Oranjestad”
  • Breton: “Oranjestad”
  • Bulgarian: “Оранестад”
  • Bulgarian: “Ораниестад”
  • Catalan: “Oranjestad”
  • Cebuano: “Oranjestad (ulohang dakbayan)”
  • Cebuano: “Oranjestad”
  • Chinese: “奥拉涅斯塔德”
  • Chinese: “奥腊涅斯塔德”
  • Chinese: “奧拉涅斯塔德”
  • Chinese: “奧臘涅斯塔德”
  • Chinese: “橘城”
  • Croatian: “Oranjestad”
  • Czech: “Orangetown”
  • Czech: “Oranjestad”
  • Danish: “Oranjestad”
  • Dutch: “Oranjestad”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اورنجستاد”
  • Erzya: “Ораньестад”
  • Esperanto: “Oranjestado”
  • Estonian: “Oranjestad”
  • Faroese: “Oranjestad”
  • Finnish: “Oranjestad”
  • French: “Oranjestad (Aruba)”
  • French: “Oranjestad”
  • Galician: “Oranjestad, Aruba”
  • Galician: “Oranjestad”
  • Georgian: “ორანესტადი”
  • German: “Oranjestad”
  • Greek: “Oranjestad”
  • Greek: “Οράνιεστατ”
  • Hebrew: “אורנייסטאד”
  • Hindi: “ओरान्यस्टाड”
  • Hungarian: “Narancsváros”
  • Hungarian: “Oranjestad”
  • Icelandic: “Oranjestad”
  • Ido: “Oranjestad”
  • Inari Sami: “Oranjestad”
  • Indonesian: “Oranjestad”
  • Irish: “Oranjestad”
  • Italian: “Oranjestad”
  • Japanese: “オラニエスタッド”
  • Kazakh: “Ораньестад (Аруба)”
  • Kazakh: “Ораньестад”
  • Kirghiz: “Ораньестад”
  • Korean: “오라녀스타트”
  • Korean: “오라녜스타트”
  • Korean: “오랑예스타트”
  • Latin: “Auriacopolis”
  • Latvian: “Oranjestade”
  • Ligurian: “Oranjestad”
  • Lingala: “Oranjestad”
  • Lithuanian: “Oranjestadas”
  • Lombard: “Oranjestad”
  • Macedonian: “Орањестад”
  • Malagasy: “Oranjestad”
  • Malay: “Oranjestad, Aruba”
  • Malay: “Oranjestad”
  • Marathi: “ऑरेंजटाउन”
  • Marathi: “ओरांजेश्टाड”
  • Marathi: “ओरांजेस्ताद”
  • Marathi: “ओरांयेस्टाट”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Oranjestad”
  • Northern Frisian: “Oranjestad”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Oranjestad”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oranjestad på Aruba”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oranjestad”
  • Norwegian: “Oranjestad”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Oranjestad”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ġeolurēadstede”
  • Ossetian: “Ораньестад”
  • Papiamento: “Oranjestad”
  • Papiamento: “Playa”
  • Persian: “اورنجستاد”
  • Piemontese: “Oranjestad”
  • Polish: “Oranjestad”
  • Portuguese: “Oranjestad”
  • Romanian: “Oranjestad, Aruba”
  • Romanian: “Oranjestad”
  • Russian: “Ораньестад”
  • Sardinian: “Oranjestad”
  • Scots: “Oranjestad”
  • Serbian: “Oranjestad”
  • Serbian: “Орањестад”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Oranjestad, Aruba”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Oranjestad”
  • Slovak: “Oranjestad”
  • Slovenian: “Oranjestad, Aruba”
  • Slovenian: “Oranjestad”
  • Spanish: “Oranjestad (Aruba)”
  • Spanish: “Oranjestad”
  • Swedish: “Oranjestad”
  • Tamil: “ஒரானியெசுத்தாடு”
  • Thai: “โอรันเยสตัด”
  • Turkish: “Oranjestad, Aruba”
  • Turkish: “Oranjestad”
  • Ukrainian: “Ораньєстад”
  • Urdu: “اورنجسٹیڈ، اروبا”
  • Urdu: “اورنجسٹیڈ”
  • Vietnamese: “Oranjestad, Aruba”
  • Vietnamese: “Oranjestad”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Oranjestad, Aruba”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Oranjestad”
  • Welsh: “Oranjestad”
  • Western Frisian: “Oranjestêd”
  • Wu Chinese: “奥拉涅斯塔德(阿鲁巴)”
  • Wu Chinese: “奥拉涅斯塔德”
  • Yoruba: “Oranjestad, Àrúbà”
  • Yoruba: “Oranjestad”
  • Yue Chinese: “奧倫吉士達”
  • Zulu: “i-Oranjestad”

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