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Stanley

Stanley, formerly known as Port Stanley, is the capital of the . This city was founded in 1843, and as of 2016 the town had about 2,500 inhabitants, about three-quarters of the archipelago's inhabitants.
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  • Type: City with 2,460 residents
  • Description: capital of the Falkland Islands
  • Also known as: “Port Stanley”, “Stanley Harbour”, and “Stanley, Falkland Islands”
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Harley D. Nygren, Public domain.

Stanley

Latitude of center
-51.6931° or 51° 41′ 35″ south
Longitude of center
-57.8565° or 57° 51′ 24″ west
Population
2,460
Elevation
92 feet (28 metres)
IATA airport code
PSY
United Nations Location Code
FK PSY
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1791553385
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3426691
Wiki­data ID
Q12245
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Satellite Map

Discover Stanley from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Stanley” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Stanley”
  • Arabic: “ستانلي”
  • Armenian: “Պորտ Սթենլի”
  • Asturian: “Stanley”
  • Azerbaijani: “Stenli”
  • Basque: “Port Stanley”
  • Belarusian: “Порт-Стэнлі”
  • Belarusian: “Стэнлі (Фалклендскія астравы)”
  • Belarusian: “Стэнлі”
  • Bengali: “স্ট্যানলি, ফকল্যান্ড দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Bosnian: “Stanley”
  • Breton: “Stanley”
  • Bulgarian: “Порт Стенли”
  • Catalan: “Port Stanley”
  • Cebuano: “Stanley”
  • Chinese: “Stanley”
  • Chinese: “史丹利”
  • Chinese: “史坦利”
  • Chinese: “斯坦利”
  • Chinese: “斯坦利港”
  • Chinese: “阿根廷港”
  • Croatian: “Stanley, Falklandski otoci”
  • Czech: “Port Stanley”
  • Danish: “Stanley”
  • Dutch: “Port Stanley”
  • Dutch: “Stanley”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ستانلى”
  • Esperanto: “Stanlejo”
  • Estonian: “Stanley”
  • Finnish: “Port Stanley”
  • French: “Port Stanley”
  • French: “Puerto Argentino”
  • French: “Stanley”
  • Galician: “Porto Arxentino/Stanley”
  • Galician: “Stanley, Malvinas”
  • Georgian: “სტენლი (ფოლკლენდის კუნძულები)”
  • Georgian: “სტენლი”
  • German: “Port Stanley”
  • German: “Stanley”
  • Greek: “Stanley”
  • Greek: “Στάνλεϋ”
  • Hebrew: “סטנלי”
  • Hungarian: “Stanley”
  • Icelandic: “Stanley”
  • Ido: “Port Stanley”
  • Indonesian: “Stanley, Kepulauan Falkland”
  • Indonesian: “Stanley”
  • Irish: “Stanley”
  • Italian: “Port Stanley”
  • Italian: “Puerto Argentino”
  • Italian: “Stanley”
  • Japanese: “スタンリー”
  • Japanese: “スタンレー”
  • Kabardian: “Стенли”
  • Kazakh: “Порт-Стэнли”
  • Korean: “스탠리”
  • Latin: “Portus Insulis Malvinis”
  • Latvian: “Portstenli”
  • Latvian: “Stenli”
  • Lithuanian: “Puerto Archentinas/Stenlis”
  • Lithuanian: “Stenlis”
  • Luxembourgish: “Stanley”
  • Macedonian: “Порт Стенли”
  • Macedonian: “Стенли”
  • Malay: “Stanley, Kepulauan Falkland”
  • Malayalam: “സ്റ്റാൻലി”
  • Manx: “Stanley, ny Malveenaghyn”
  • Marathi: “पोर्ट स्टॅन्ली”
  • Mazanderani: “استنلی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Stanley”
  • Mingrelian: “სტენლი (ფოლკლენდიშ კოკეფი)”
  • Mingrelian: “სტენლი”
  • Northern Frisian: “Stanley (Falklands)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Stanley”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Stanley”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Stanley”
  • Norwegian: “Stanley”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Port Stanley”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Stanleah on Folclandum Īeglandum”
  • Ossetian: “Порт-Стенли”
  • Ossetian: “Порт-Стэнли”
  • Ossetian: “Пуэрто-Аргентино”
  • Ossetian: “Стенли”
  • Ossetian: “Стэнли”
  • Papiamento: “Stanley”
  • Persian: “استنلی، جزایر فالکلند”
  • Persian: “استنلی”
  • Polish: “Stanley”
  • Portuguese: “Port Stanley”
  • Portuguese: “Porto Stanley”
  • Portuguese: “Stanley”
  • Romanian: “Stanley, Insulele Falkland”
  • Romanian: “Stanley”
  • Russian: “Порт-Стэнли”
  • Russian: “Стэнли”
  • Samogitian: “Port Stenlis”
  • Scots: “Stanley, Falkland Islands”
  • Scots: “Stanley”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Stanley”
  • Serbian: “Стенли”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Stanley”
  • Sinhala: “ස්ටැන්ලි, ෆෝක්ලන්ත දූපත්”
  • Slovak: “Port Stanley”
  • Slovak: “Stanley”
  • Slovenian: “Port Stanley”
  • Slovenian: “Stanley”
  • Spanish: “Port Stanley”
  • Spanish: “Puerto Argentino”
  • Spanish: “Puerto Argentino/Stanley”
  • Spanish: “Puerto de la Isla Soledad”
  • Spanish: “Puerto de las Islas Malvinas”
  • Spanish: “Puerto Rivero”
  • Spanish: “Puerto Soledad”
  • Spanish: “Puerto Stanley”
  • Spanish: “Stanley”
  • Swedish: “Port Stanley”
  • Swedish: “Stanley, Falklandsöarna”
  • Swedish: “Stanley”
  • Talysh: “Stenli”
  • Tamil: “இசுடான்லி, போக்லாந்து தீவுகள்”
  • Tamil: “இசுடான்லி”
  • Tatar: “Порт-Стәнли”
  • Thai: “สแตนลีย์”
  • Turkish: “Stanley, Falkland Adaları”
  • Turkish: “Stanley”
  • Ukrainian: “Порт-Стенлі”
  • Urdu: “اسٹینلے، جزائر فاکلینڈ”
  • Urdu: “اسٹینلے”
  • Venetian: “Porto Arzentin”
  • Venetian: “Porto Stanley”
  • Vietnamese: “Stanley, Quần đảo Falkland”
  • Vietnamese: “Stanley”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Stanley, Kapuropud-an Falkland”
  • Welsh: “Stanley”
  • Western Frisian: “Stanley”
  • Western Panjabi: “سٹینلے”
  • Wolof: “Stanley, Dunu Falkland”
  • Wu Chinese: “斯坦利 (福克兰群岛)”
  • Wu Chinese: “斯坦利（福克兰群岛）”
  • Yiddish: “סטאנלי, פאלקלאנד אינזלען”
  • Yiddish: “סטאנלי”
  • Yiddish: “פארט סטענלי”
  • Yue Chinese: “斯坦利港”
  • “ma tomo Sanli”
  • “Port Stenlis”

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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 “Stanley”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.