Seychelles
Mahé
La Rivière Anglaise

Victoria

Victoria is the capital of the islands, on the island of Mahe. Victoria is one of the smallest capital cities in the world and the only major port in the Seychelles.
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  • Type: City with 26,500 residents
  • Description: capital city of the Seychelles
  • Also known as: “Mahé”, “Port Victoria”, and “Victoria, Seychelles”

Places of Interest

Highlights include National Botanical Garden of Seychelles and Seychelles Natural History Museum.

Garden
The in .

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.
The is a natural history museum in the .

Government office
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The is the official residence of the President of the Seychelles.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Beau Vallon.

Photo: Welcomematt22, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a beach resort on the northwest corner of Mahe, . This is where the majority of Seychelles' visitors stay during their visit and is also where much of the tourist infrastructure is located.

Victoria

Latitude
-4.6232° or 4° 37′ 24″ south
Longitude
55.4524° or 55° 27′ 9″ east
Population
26,500
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
United Nations Location Codes
SC MAW, SC POV, and SC VIC
Open location code
6H7Q9FG2+PW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4547527878
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
241131
Wiki­data ID
Q3940
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Victoria” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Victoria”
  • Albanian: “Viktoria”
  • Amharic: “ቪክቶሪያ፥ ሲሸልስ”
  • Arabic: “فيكتوريا”
  • Aragonese: “Victoria”
  • Armenian: “Վիկտորիա”
  • Asturian: “Victoria”
  • Azerbaijani: “Viktoriya”
  • Balinese: “Victoria, Seychelles”
  • Bashkir: “Виктория (Сейшел Утрауҙары)”
  • Bashkir: “Виктория”
  • Basque: “Victoria”
  • Bavarian: “Victoria (Seychellen)”
  • Bavarian: “Victoria”
  • Belarusian: “Вікторыя”
  • Bengali: “ভিক্তোরিয়া, সেশেলস”
  • Bengali: “ভিক্তোরিয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Victoria”
  • Breton: “Victoria”
  • Bulgarian: “Виктория”
  • Catalan: “Victòria”
  • Cebuano: “Victoria”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڤیکتۆریا، سیشێل”
  • Chechen: “Виктори”
  • Chinese: “Victoria”
  • Chinese: “維多利亞”
  • Chinese: “维多利亚”
  • Chuvash: “Виктори”
  • Croatian: “Victoria, Sejšeli”
  • Croatian: “Victoria”
  • Czech: “Victoria”
  • Danish: “Victoria”
  • Dutch: “Victoria”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فيكتوريا”
  • Esperanto: “Viktorio”
  • Estonian: “Victoria”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Victoria”
  • Finnish: “Victoria”
  • French: “L’Établissement”
  • French: “Victoria”
  • Galician: “Victoria, Seychelles”
  • Galician: “Victoria”
  • Georgian: “ვიქტორია”
  • German: “Port Victoria”
  • German: “Victoria”
  • Greek: “Βικτόρια”
  • Greek: “Βικτώρια”
  • Guarani: “Victoria”
  • Gujarati: “વિક્ટોરિયા”
  • Haitian: “Viktorya”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Victoria”
  • Hausa: “Biktoriya”
  • Hebrew: “ויקטוריה”
  • Hindi: “विक्टोरिया, सेशाइल्स”
  • Hindi: “विक्टोरिया”
  • Hungarian: “Victoria”
  • Icelandic: “Viktoría”
  • Ido: “Victoria, Seycheli”
  • Inari Sami: “Victoria, Seychelleh”
  • Indonesian: “Victoria, Seychelles”
  • Indonesian: “Victoria”
  • Interlingua: “Victoria”
  • Interlingue: “Victoria”
  • Irish: “Victoria na Séiséal”
  • Italian: “Victoria”
  • Japanese: “ヴィクトリア”
  • Japanese: “ビクトリア”
  • Javanese: “Victoria, Seychelles”
  • Kabyle: “Victoria”
  • Kannada: “ವಿಕ್ಟೋರಿಯಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Виктория қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Виктория”
  • Kirghiz: “Виктория, Сейшелдер”
  • Kirghiz: “Виктория”
  • Korean: “빅토리아”
  • Kotava: “Victoria”
  • Kurdish: “Vîktorya”
  • Latin: “Victoria”
  • Latvian: “Viktorija”
  • Ligurian: “Victòria”
  • Lithuanian: “Viktorija”
  • Livvi: “Viktorii”
  • Lombard: “Victoria”
  • Luxembourgish: “Victoria”
  • Macedonian: “Викторија”
  • Malagasy: “Victoria, Seychelles”
  • Malay: “Victoria, Seychelles”
  • Malay: “Victoria”
  • Malayalam: “വിക്ടോറിയ, സെയ്‌ഷെൽസ്”
  • Marathi: “व्हिक्टोरिया, सेशेल्स”
  • Marathi: “व्हिक्टोरिया”
  • Mazanderani: “ویکتوریا (سیشل)”
  • Mazanderani: “ویکتوریا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Victoria”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Victoria”
  • Minangkabau: “Victoria, Seychelles”
  • Moksha: “Виктория”
  • Mongolian: “Викториа”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ڤيكطوريا”
  • Neapolitan: “Victoria”
  • Northern Frisian: “Victoria (Seschelen)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Victoria”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Victoria”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Victoria på Seychellane”
  • Norwegian: “Victoria”
  • Novial: “Viktoria, Seyshels”
  • Novial: “Viktoria”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Victòria”
  • Ossetian: “Виктори”
  • Panjabi: “ਵਿਕਟੋਰੀਆ, ਸੇਸ਼ੈਲ”
  • Panjabi: “ਵਿਕਟੋਰੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Victoria”
  • Papiamento: “Viktoria”
  • Persian: “پورت‌ویکتوریا”
  • Persian: “ویکتوریا”
  • Piemontese: “Victoria”
  • Polish: “Victoria”
  • Portuguese: “Victoria”
  • Portuguese: “Vitória”
  • Romanian: “Victoria, Seychelles”
  • Romanian: “Victoria”
  • Russian: “Виктория”
  • Sardinian: “Victoria”
  • Scots: “Victoria, Seychelles”
  • Scots: “Victoria”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Victoria”
  • Serbian: “Викторија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Victoria”
  • Shona: “Victoria”
  • Silesian: “Victoria”
  • Sinhala: “වික්ටෝරියා”
  • Sinhala: “වික්ටෝරියාව, සෙචිලිස්”
  • Slovak: “Victoria”
  • Slovenian: “Viktorija, Sejšeli”
  • Slovenian: “Viktorija”
  • Somali: “Fiktoria”
  • Spanish: “Puerto Victoria”
  • Spanish: “Victoria”
  • Swahili: “Victoria”
  • Swedish: “Victoria, Seychellerna”
  • Swedish: “Victoria”
  • Tagalog: “Victoria, Seychelles”
  • Tajik: “Виктория (Ҷазираҳои Сейшел)”
  • Tajik: “Виктория”
  • Tamil: “விக்டோரியா, சீசெல்சு”
  • Tamil: “விக்டோரியா”
  • Telugu: “విక్టోరియా”
  • Thai: “วิกตอเรีย”
  • Thai: “วิกทอเรีย”
  • Tibetan: “ཝིག་ཐོ་རི་ཡ།”
  • Turkish: “Victoria, Seyşeller”
  • Turkish: “Victoria”
  • Turkmen: “Wiktoriýa”
  • Udmurt: “Виктория”
  • Ukrainian: “Вікторія”
  • Urdu: “وکٹوریا”
  • Uzbek: “Viktoriya”
  • Venetian: “Port Victoria”
  • Veps: “Viktorii”
  • Vietnamese: “Victoria, Seychelles”
  • Vietnamese: “Victoria”
  • Volapük: “Victoria”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Victoria, Seychelles”
  • Welsh: “Victoria, Seychelles”
  • Welsh: “Victoria”
  • Western Armenian: “Վիքթորիա (Մայրաքաղաք)”
  • Western Armenian: “Վիքթորիա”
  • Western Frisian: “Fiktoria”
  • Western Frisian: “Victoria”
  • Western Panjabi: “وکٹوریا، سشلز”
  • Western Panjabi: “وکٹوریہ, سشلز”
  • Western Panjabi: “وکٹوریہ”
  • Wolof: “Wiktoria”
  • Wu Chinese: “维多利亚（塞舌尔）”
  • Wu Chinese: “维多利亚”
  • Yoruba: “Victoria, Ṣèíhẹ́lẹ́sì”
  • Yue Chinese: “維多利亞”
  • Zulu: “i-Victoria”
  • “Victoria”

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