Roseau

Roseau is the capital city of and has many restaurants, small shops and wonderful views of the mountains and the Caribbean Sea.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Windsor Park and The Dominica Museum.

Stadium
Photo: SDGibbons, Public domain.
is a multi-purpose stadium in Roseau in . It serves as the country's national stadium and is used mostly for cricket and association football matches.

Museum
is the national museum of , an island nation in the . It is located in the capital, Roseau, on a quay in front of the Old Market of Roseau, which was the centre for slave trading during colonial times.

Park
Dominica Botanic Gardens is located on the island-nation of , in the capital of Roseau. Once known as one of the finest botanical gardens in the region, it was severely damaged by Hurricane David in 1979.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Castle Comfort and Stock Farm.

Village
is a community in . 789 inhabitants live there and in neighbouring Wall House.

Suburb
or Stockfarm is a northern suburb of Roseau, . It contains the national prison of Dominica , the Dominica State College and a netball and basketball stadium. and the main port of entry into Dominica lie off .

Town
is a town located on the west coast of , north of Roseau and south of , overlooking Pringle Bay. The largest settlement in , it has a population of 2,803. is situated 2½ miles north of Roseau.

Roseau

Latitude
15.2992° or 15° 17′ 57″ north
Longitude
-61.3873° or 61° 23′ 14″ west
Population
15,000
Elevation
36 feet (11 metres)
IATA airport code
DCB
United Nations Location Code
DM RSU
Open location code
777W7JX7+M3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4950552057
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3575635
Wiki­data ID
Q36281
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Roseau” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Roseau
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  • Amharic: ሮዞ
  • Arabic: روسو
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  • Armenian: Ռոզո
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  • Asturian: Rousseau
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  • Belarusian: Горад Разо
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  • Chinese: 羅索
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  • Egyptian Arabic: روسو
  • Esperanto: Roseo
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  • Georgian: როზო
  • German: Charlotte Town
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  • Haitian: Rozo
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  • Hebrew: רוזאאו
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  • Hindi: रोसीयू
  • Hungarian: Roseau
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  • Japanese: ロゾー
  • Kazakh: Розо
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  • Korean: 로조
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  • Malayalam: റൊസൗ
  • Marathi: रुसाउ
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  • Mingrelian: როზო
  • Moksha: Роза
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  • Moroccan Arabic: روسو
  • Northern Frisian: Roseau
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  • Occitan (post 1500): Roseau
  • Ossetian: Розо
  • Panjabi: ਰੋਜ਼ੋ
  • Papiamento: Roseau
  • Persian: روسو
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  • Russian: Розо (Доминика)
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  • Sindhi: روزيو
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  • Tagalog: Roseau
  • Tajik: Розо
  • Tamil: உறொசோ
  • Thai: กรุงโรโซ
  • Thai: โรโซ
  • Tibetan: རུ་ཟོ་
  • Tibetan: རུ་ཟོ།
  • Turkish: Roseau
  • Udmurt: Розо
  • Ukrainian: Розо
  • Urdu: روسو(شہر)
  • Urdu: روسو
  • Urdu: ژاں-ژاک روسو
  • Uzbek: Rozo
  • Veps: Rozo
  • Vietnamese: Roseau
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  • Wu Chinese: 罗索
  • Yakut: Розо
  • Yoruba: Roseau
  • Yue Chinese: 羅索
  • Zulu: i-Roseau
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