Port of Spain

Port of Spain, on the northwest coast of island, is the capital city of . The city is famous for its carnival, second only to that of Rio in importance but preferred by many because of its perceptions of being safer.
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  • Type: City with 37,100 residents
  • Description: capital of Trinidad and Tobago
  • Also known as: Acalquixohuayan Caxtillan”, “City of Port-of-Spain”, “Cumucurapo”, “Port-au-Spain”, “Port-of-Spain”, and “Puerto España
Photo: Christianwelsh, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hasely Crawford Stadium and Red House.

Stadium
The , formerly the National Stadium, is located in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. It was inaugurated and formally opened by Prime Minister George Chambers on 12 June 1982.

Government office
The is the seat of Parliament in . The architectural design of the is of Beaux-Arts style. The original building was destroyed in the 1903 Water Riots and was rebuilt in 1907.

Museum
The is the national museum of , in Port of Spain on island. It is located at the top of Frederick Street, opposite the Memorial Park, and just south of the .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Laventille and Morvant.

Suburb
is a suburb of Port of Spain in . It is administered by the San Juan–Laventille Regional Corporation.

Suburb
is a community in located east of Port of Spain in the region of San Juan-Laventille.

Suburb
, in north-east Port of Spain, in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is located at the foot of the ; it was the city's first suburb.

Port of Spain

Latitude
10.6573° or 10° 39′ 26″ north
Longitude
-61.518° or 61° 31′ 5″ west
Population
37,100
Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)
IATA airport code
POS
United Nations Location Code
TT POS
Open location code
772WMF4J+WQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2718091147
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3573890
Wiki­data ID
Q39178
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Port of Spain” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Port of Spain
  • Afrikaans: Port-of-Spain
  • Albanian: Port-of-Spain
  • Amharic: ፖርት ኦፍ ስፔን
  • Arabic: بورت أوف سبين
  • Arabic: بورت اوف سبين
  • Aragonese: Port of Spain
  • Armenian: Պորտ օֆ Սփեյն
  • Asturian: Port of Spain
  • Asturian: Port-of-Spain
  • Asturian: Puertu España
  • Azerbaijani: Port of Speyn
  • Azerbaijani: Port-of-Speyn
  • Balinese: Port of Spain
  • Basque: Port of Spain
  • Basque: Port-of-Spain
  • Belarusian: Порт-оф-Спейн
  • Belarusian: Порт-оф-Спэйн
  • Bengali: পোর্ট অব স্পেন
  • Bosnian: Port of Spain
  • Bosnian: Port-of-Spain
  • Breton: Port of Spain
  • Bulgarian: Порт ъф Спейн
  • Catalan: Port of Spain
  • Catalan: Port-of-Spain
  • Cebuano: Port-of-Spain (ulohang dakbayan sa Trinidad ug Tobago)
  • Cebuano: Port-of-Spain
  • Chechen: Порт-оф-Спейн
  • Chinese: Port of Spain
  • Chinese: 西班牙港
  • Cornish: Port of Spain
  • Corsican: Port of Spain
  • Corsican: Portu di Spagna
  • Croatian: Port of Spain
  • Croatian: Port-of-Spain
  • Czech: Port of Spain
  • Czech: Port-of-Spain
  • Czech: Puerto España
  • Danish: Port of Spain
  • Danish: Port-of-Spain
  • Dutch: Port of Spain
  • Dutch: Port-of-Spain
  • Egyptian Arabic: بورت اوف سبين
  • Esperanto: Portospeno
  • Estonian: Port of Spain
  • Estonian: Port-of-Spain
  • Fiji Hindi: Port of Spain
  • Finnish: Port of Spain
  • Finnish: Port-of-Spain
  • French: Port d’Espagne
  • French: Port of Spain
  • French: Port-d’Espagne
  • French: Port-of-Spain
  • French: TTPP
  • Galician: Porto de España
  • Galician: Porto España
  • Georgian: პორტ-ოვ-სპეინი
  • German: Port of Spain
  • German: Port-of-Spain
  • German: PoS
  • Greek: Πορτ οφ Σπέιν
  • Greek: Πορτ-οφ-Σπέιν
  • Guarani: Puerto Epáña
  • Gujarati: પોર્ટ ઓફ સ્પેન
  • Haitian: Pò of Espay
  • Haitian: Pòdespay
  • Hakka Chinese: Port of Spain
  • Hausa: Port of Spain
  • Hebrew: פורט אוף ספיין
  • Hindi: पोर्ट ऑफ स्पेन
  • Hungarian: Port of Spain
  • Icelandic: Port of Spain
  • Ido: Port-of-Spain
  • Indonesian: Port of Spain
  • Indonesian: Port-of-Spain
  • Interlingue: Port of Spain
  • Irish: Port of Spain
  • Italian: Port of Spain
  • Italian: Porto di Spagna
  • Japanese: ポート・オブ・スペイン
  • Japanese: ポートオブスペイン
  • Kannada: ಪೋರ್ಟ್ ಆಫ್ ಸ್ಪೇನ್
  • Kazakh: Порт-оф-Спейн
  • Kirghiz: Порт-Оф-Спейн
  • Korean: 포트 오브 스페인
  • Korean: 포트오브스페인
  • Kotava: Port of Spain
  • Latin: Portus Hispaniae
  • Latvian: Port of Spain
  • Latvian: Port-of-Spain
  • Latvian: Portofspeina
  • Latvian: Puerto España
  • Ligurian: Pòrto de Spagna
  • Lithuanian: Port of Speinas
  • Livvi: Port-of-Spein
  • Lombard: Port of Spain
  • Luxembourgish: Port of Spain
  • Macedonian: Порт оф Спејн
  • Malay: Port of Spain
  • Malayalam: പോർട്ട് ഓഫ് സ്പെയിൻ
  • Marathi: पोर्ट ऑफ स्पेन
  • Min Dong Chinese: Port of Spain
  • Min Nan Chinese: Port-of-Spain
  • Min Nan Chinese: Se-pan-gâ-káng
  • Minangkabau: Port of Spain
  • Mingrelian: პორტ-ოვ-სპეინი
  • Moksha: Порт оф Спэйн
  • Moksha: Порт-оф-Спэйн
  • Moroccan Arabic: پورت ؤف سپاين
  • N'Ko: ߊߛߌߔߊ߲߫ ߠߊ߫ ߘߊ߲
  • N'Ko: ߔߏߙߑߕߏ߫ ߍߛߑߔߊ߲ߣߊ߫
  • Northern Frisian: Port of Spain
  • Northern Luri: پرت آو اسپاین
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Port of Spain
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Port-of-Spain
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Port of Spain
  • Norwegian: Port of Spain
  • Novial: Portu de Spania
  • Occitan (post 1500): Pòrt d’Espanha
  • Occitan (post 1500): Port of Spain
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): Spēonport
  • Ossetian: Порт-оф-Спейн
  • Panjabi: ਪੋਰਟ ਆਫ਼ ਸਪੇਨ
  • Papiamento: Port of Spain
  • Persian: بندر اسپانیا
  • Persian: پرت آو اسپاین
  • Persian: پرت او اسپاین
  • Persian: پورت آو اسپاین
  • Persian: پورت آو اسپین
  • Piemontese: Port of Spain
  • Polish: Port of Spain
  • Polish: Port-of-Spain
  • Portuguese: Port of Spain
  • Portuguese: Port-of-Spain
  • Portuguese: Porto da Espanha
  • Portuguese: Porto de Espanha
  • Portuguese: Porto Espanha
  • Portuguese: Porto-da-Espanha
  • Portuguese: Porto-de-Espanha
  • Pushto: پرت آو اسپاین
  • Romanian: Port of Spain
  • Romanian: Port-of-Spain
  • Russian: Порт-оф-Спейн
  • Sardinian: Port of Spain
  • Scots: Port o Spain
  • Scots: Port o Spainie
  • Scots: Port of Spain
  • Scottish Gaelic: Port of Spain
  • Serbian: Port of Spain
  • Serbian: Порт ов Спејн
  • Serbian: Порт оф Спеин
  • Serbian: Порт оф Спејн
  • Serbo-Croatian: Port of Spain
  • Shona: Port of Spain
  • Silesian: Port of Spain
  • Sinhala: පොර්ට් ඔෆ් ස්පේන්
  • Sinhala: ස්පාඤ්ඤ වරාය, ට්‍රිනිඩෑඩ් සහ ටොබැගෝ
  • Slovak: Port of Spain
  • Slovenian: Port of Spain
  • South Azerbaijani: پورت آو اسپاین
  • Spanish: Port of Spain
  • Spanish: Port of-Spain
  • Spanish: Port-of-Spain
  • Spanish: Puerto de los Españoles
  • Spanish: Puerto España
  • Swahili: Port of Spain
  • Swedish: Port of Spain
  • Swedish: Port-of-Spain
  • Tagalog: Port of Spain
  • Tagalog: Port-of-Spain
  • Tagalog: Porto Espanya
  • Tagalog: Puerto Espana
  • Tagalog: Puerto España
  • Tagalog: Puerto Espanya
  • Tagalog: Puwerto Espanya
  • Tagalog: Puwerto ng Espanya
  • Tagalog: Puwertong Espanya
  • Tajik: Порт-оф-Спейн
  • Tamil: போர்ட் ஆஃப் ஸ்பெய்ன்
  • Tamil: போர்ட் ஆப் ஸ்பெயின்
  • Telugu: పోర్ట్‌ ఆఫ్ స్పెయిన్
  • Thai: พอร์ต-ออฟ-สเปน
  • Thai: พอร์ตออฟสเปน
  • Tibetan: པོ་རོ་ཊི་ཨོཕ་སི་པེ་ན་
  • Tibetan: པོ་རོ་ཊི་ཨོཕ་སི་པེ་ན།
  • Tosk Albanian: Port of Spain
  • Turkish: Port of Spain
  • Turkish: Port-of-Spain
  • Udmurt: Порт-оф-Спейн
  • Ukrainian: Порт-ов-Спейн
  • Ukrainian: Порт-оф-Спейн
  • Urdu: پورٹ آف اسپین
  • Urdu: پورٹ اسپین
  • Uzbek: Port-of-speyn
  • Veps: Port of Spein
  • Vietnamese: Cảng Tây Ban Nha
  • Vietnamese: Port of Spain
  • Volapük: Port of Spain
  • Waray (Philippines): Port of Spain
  • Welsh: Port of Spain
  • Welsh: Porthladd Sbaen
  • Western Armenian: Սպանիոյ նաւահանգիստը
  • Western Frisian: Port of Spain
  • Western Panjabi: پورٹ آف اسپین
  • Wu Chinese: 西班牙港
  • Yakut: Порт оф Спейн
  • Yoruba: Port of Spain
  • Yue Chinese: 西班牙港
  • Zulu: i-Port of Spain
  • Ācalquīxōhuayān Caxtillān
  • Port of Spain

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