Oranjestad
Oranjestad is the capital and largest city of Aruba. 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: ויקיג’אנקי, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 35,000 residents
- Description: capital city of Aruba
- Also known as: “Oranjestad, Aruba”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Queen Beatrix International Airport and Aruba National Library.
Queen Beatrix International Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Queen Beatrix International Airport is an international airport located in the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba. It has flight services to the United States, Canada, several countries in the Caribbean, the northern coastal countries of South America, as well as some parts of Europe, notably the Netherlands.
Aruba National Library
Library
The National Library of Aruba is the main library of Aruba. It is located in Oranjestad and holds more than 100,000 volumes. BNA serves as both the national and the public library of Aruba.
National Archaeological Museum Aruba
Museum
Photo: Natalie Liao, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The National Archaeological Museum Aruba is an archaeological museum in the city of Oranjestad in Aruba. The collections cover from 2500 BCE to the 19th century.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Noord and Palm Beach.
Noord
Photo: HannahGR91, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Noord is a town and region in Aruba. This town is known for its low rise and high rise hotels, restaurants, beaches, malls, the California Lighthouse, and other places of attraction.
Palm Beach
Photo: Uspn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Palm Beach is a city in Aruba. Palm Beach is renowned for its two-mile long strip of beach on the Northwest end of Aruba, and is home to many water sports, piers, beach bars, restaurants, shops, and hotels.
Tanki Leendert
Village
Photo: Ginafromaruba, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tanki Leendert is a town in Noord on the island of Aruba. The parish of Tanki Leendert has been split from Noord since 1968.
Oranjestad
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Aruba, Caribbean, North America
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Latitude
12.5201° or 12° 31′ 12″ northLongitude
-70.0371° or 70° 2′ 14″ westPopulation
35,000Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 50031810OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Oranjestad” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Oranjestad”
- Arabic: “أورنجستاد”
- Aragonese: “Oranjestad”
- Asturian: “Oranjestad”
- Asturian: “Oranxestad”
- Azerbaijani: “Oranjestad”
- Azerbaijani: “Oranyestad”
- Basque: “Oranjestad”
- Belarusian: “Аран’естад”
- Belarusian: “Араньестад (Аруба)”
- Belarusian: “Араньестад”
- Bosnian: “Oranjestad”
- Breton: “Oranjestad”
- Bulgarian: “Оранестад”
- Bulgarian: “Ораниестад”
- Catalan: “Oranjestad”
- Cebuano: “Oranjestad (ulohang dakbayan)”
- Cebuano: “Oranjestad”
- Chinese: “Oranjestad”
- Chinese: “奥拉涅斯塔德”
- Chinese: “奥腊涅斯塔德”
- Chinese: “奧倫吉士達”
- 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”
- 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: “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”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Oranjestad”
- Northern Frisian: “Oranjestad”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Oranjestad”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oranjestad på Aruba”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oranjestad”
- Norwegian: “Oranjestad”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Oranjestad”
- 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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Oranjestad”. Photo: ויקיג’אנקי, CC BY-SA 3.0.