Saba

Saba, known as "the Unspoiled Queen" due to the protection of its unique ecosystem, is a 13-km² volcanic island in the Leeward Islands. Since it is not a reef island, it does not have the sandy beaches most notable in the Caribbean, but rather mostly cliff faces and rocky shore.
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  • Type: State with 1,740 residents
  • Description: island in the Caribbean, part of the Netherlands
  • Also known as: “BQ2”, “Ilha de Saba”, “Illa de Sant Cristòfor”, “Isla de Saba”, “Islla de Saba”, “Public Entity Saba”, “TNCS”, “סייבא”, “沙巴”, and “萨巴岛”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport and Mount Scenery.

Aerodrome
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is an airport on the island of Saba, . Its runway is widely acknowledged as the shortest commercial runway in the world, with a length of 400 m.

Volcano
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is a dormant volcano in the . Its lava dome forms the summit of the Saba island stratovolcano. At an elevation of 870 m, it is the highest point in both the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and, since the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles on 10 October 2010, the highest point in the proper.

Islet
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is a small uninhabited islet about 250 metres north of the island of Saba, and is part of the of Saba.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include The Bottom and Zion’s Hill.

Village
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is the capital and largest town of the island of Saba, the . It is the first stop on the way from Saba's Port in towards the rest of the island.

Village
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Zion's Hill, also known by its former name Hell's Gate, is a town on the Dutch Caribbean island of Saba. Locally, it is divided into Upper Hell's Gate and Lower Hell's Gate.

Village
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is the second largest town on the Dutch Caribbean island of Saba, aptly named for being on the windward side of the island.

Saba

Latitude
17.6317° or 17° 37′ 54″ north
Longitude
-63.2378° or 63° 14′ 16″ west
Population
1,740
Elevation
558 metres (1,831 feet)
UN/LOCODE
BQ SAB
Open location code
779RJQJ6+MV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2832371635
Geo­Names ID
7610358
Wiki­data ID
Q25528
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Saba” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Saba”
  • Amharic: “ሳባ”
  • Arabic: “سابا”
  • Aragonese: “Saba”
  • Armenian: “Սաբա կղզի”
  • Asturian: “Saba”
  • Azerbaijani: “Saba”
  • Balinese: “Saba (nusa)”
  • Balinese: “Saba”
  • Bashkir: “Саба”
  • Basque: “Saba”
  • Bavarian: “Saba”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Саба”
  • Belarusian: “Саба”
  • Bengali: “সাবা”
  • Bosnian: “Saba”
  • Breton: “Saba”
  • Bulgarian: “Саба”
  • Catalan: “Illa de Saba”
  • Catalan: “Saba”
  • Cebuano: “Saba Island”
  • Chinese: “萨巴”
  • Chinese: “薩巴”
  • Croatian: “Saba”
  • Czech: “Saba”
  • Danish: “Saba”
  • Dutch: “Openbaar Lichaam Saba”
  • Dutch: “Saba”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سابا (جزيره)”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سابا”
  • Esperanto: “Saba”
  • Esperanto: “Sabo”
  • Estonian: “Saba saar”
  • Faroese: “Saba”
  • Finnish: “Saba”
  • French: “Saba”
  • Gagauz: “Saba”
  • Galician: “Saba”
  • Georgian: “საბა”
  • German: “Saba”
  • Greek: “Σάμπα”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Saba”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Saba”
  • Hausa: “Saba”
  • Hebrew: “סאבא”
  • Hindi: “साबा”
  • Hungarian: “Saba”
  • Ido: “Saba”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Saba”
  • Indonesian: “Saba”
  • Irish: “Saba”
  • Italian: “Saba”
  • Japanese: “サバ島”
  • Javanese: “Saba”
  • Kazakh: “Саба”
  • Kirghiz: “Саба”
  • Korean: “사바섬”
  • Latin: “Saba (insula)”
  • Latin: “Saba”
  • Latvian: “Saba”
  • Limburgan: “Saba”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Saba”
  • Lithuanian: “Saba”
  • Lombard: “Saba”
  • Luxembourgish: “Saba”
  • Macedonian: “Саба”
  • Malay: “Saba”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Saba”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Saba”
  • Northern Frisian: “Saaba”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Saba”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Øya Saba”
  • Norwegian: “Saba”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Saba”
  • Oromo: “Saba”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਾਬਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Saba”
  • Persian: “سابا”
  • Persian: “سیبا”
  • Piemontese: “Saba”
  • Polish: “Saba”
  • Portuguese: “Saba”
  • Pushto: “سابا”
  • Pushto: “سیبا”
  • Romanian: “Saba”
  • Russian: “Саба”
  • Scots: “Saba”
  • Serbian: “Саба”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Saba”
  • Sinhala: “සබා”
  • Slovak: “Saba”
  • Slovenian: “Saba”
  • Somali: “Saba”
  • Spanish: “Saba”
  • Sundanese: “Saba”
  • Swahili: “Saba”
  • Swedish: “Saba”
  • Swiss German: “D Saba Insle”
  • Swiss German: “Saba”
  • Tagalog: “Saba”
  • Tajik: “Саба”
  • Tamil: “சேபா”
  • Tatar: “Саба”
  • Thai: “ซาบา”
  • Turkish: “Saba”
  • Ukrainian: “Саба”
  • Urdu: “سابا”
  • Urdu: “صبا”
  • Uzbek: “Saba”
  • Vietnamese: “Saba”
  • Vlaams: “Saba”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Saba”
  • Western Frisian: “Saba”
  • Western Panjabi: “سائبا”
  • Western Panjabi: “سابا”
  • Wu Chinese: “萨巴”
  • Yue Chinese: “薩巴島”
  • Zeeuws: “Saba”

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