Tortola
Tortola is the capital island of the British Virgin Islands and Road Town is the capital city. There's not a lot to see, although the original architecture of little wooden houses housing some interesting shops, cafes and an art gallery or two and Cockroach Hall built on a huge rock on Main Street is not be missed.
- Island
- …has 23,900 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 801 feet (244 metres)
- …has the IATA airport code TOV
- Description: island in British Virgin Islands
- Also known as“Tortola BVI”“Tortola Island”“Tortola, British Virgin Islands”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. William’s Church and Peebles Hospital.
St. William’s Church
Place of worship
St. William's Church is a Catholic church in Road Town, the capital of the British Virgin Islands.
Peebles Hospital
Hospital
Peebles Hospital is the main public hospital in the British Virgin Islands.
Elmore Stoutt High School
School
Elmore Stoutt High School is a grade 7-12 secondary school in Road Town, Tortola.
Tortola
- Category: landform
- Location
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Latitude
18.4366° or 18° 26′ 12″ north
Longitude
-64.6185° or 64° 37′ 7″ west
UN/LOCODE
VG TOV
Open location code
77CQC9PJ+JJ
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Tortola” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تورتولا”
- Armenian: “Տորտոլա”
- Basque: “Tortola”
- Catalan: “Tortola”
- Catalan: “Tórtola”
- Cebuano: “Tortola”
- Chechen: “Тортола”
- Chinese: “托土拉島”
- Chinese: “托尔托拉岛”
- Chinese: “托爾托拉島”
- Croatian: “Tortola”
- Czech: “Tortola”
- Danish: “Tortola”
- Dutch: “Tertholen”
- Dutch: “Tortola”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تورتولا”
- Esperanto: “Tortola”
- Estonian: “Tortola”
- Finnish: “Tortola”
- French: “Tortola”
- French: “TUPJ”
- Galician: “Tórtola”
- German: “Ter Tholen”
- German: “Tertholen”
- German: “Tortola”
- Greek: “Τορτόλα”
- Hebrew: “טורטולה”
- Hungarian: “Tortola”
- Indonesian: “Tortola”
- Irish: “Tortola”
- Italian: “Tortola”
- Japanese: “トルトラ島”
- Korean: “토르톨라”
- Korean: “토르톨라섬”
- Latin: “Tortola”
- Latvian: “Tortola”
- Lithuanian: “Tortola”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tortola”
- Norwegian: “Tortola”
- Papiamento: “Tortola”
- Persian: “تورتولا”
- Polish: “Tortola”
- Portuguese: “Tortola”
- Russian: “Тортола”
- Serbian: “Tortola”
- Serbian: “Тортола”
- Silesian: “Tortola”
- Slovenian: “Tortola”
- Spanish: “Tortola”
- Spanish: “Tórtola”
- Swedish: “Tortola”
- Turkish: “Tortola”
- Ukrainian: “Тортола”
- Vietnamese: “Tortola”
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