Port of Spain

Port of Spain, on the northwest coast of island, is the capital city of . The city is famous for its carnival, second only to that of Rio in importance but preferred by many because of its perceptions of being safer.
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  • Type: City with 37,100 residents
  • Description: capital of Trinidad and Tobago
  • Also known as: “Acalquixohuayan Caxtillan”, “Cảng Tây Ban Nha”, “City of Port-of-Spain”, “Cumucurapo”, “Port d’Espagne”, “Pòrt d’Espanha”, “Port of-Spain”, “Port-au-Spain”, “Porto da Espanha”, “Porto de Espanha”, “Porto di Spagna”, “Porto Espanya”, “Porto-da-Espanha”, “Porto-de-Espanha”, “Portu di Spagna”, “PoS”, “Puerto de los Españoles”, “Puerto Espana”, “Puwerto ng Espanya”, “Puwertong Espanya”, “Se-pan-gâ-káng”, “TTPP”, “Порт оф Спеин”, “Порт-ов-Спейн”, “بندر اسپانیا”, “پرت او اسپاین”, “پورٹ اسپین”, “ߔߏߙߑߕߏ߫ ߍߛߑߔߊ߲ߣߊ߫”, “போர்ட் ஆப் ஸ்பெயின்”, “པོ་རོ་ཊི་ཨོཕ་སི་པེ་ན་”, and “ポート・オブ・スペイン”
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Places of Interest

Highlights: Hasely Crawford Stadium and Red House.

Stadium
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The , formerly the National Stadium, is located in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. It was inaugurated and formally opened by Prime Minister George Chambers on 12 June 1982.

Government office
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The is the seat of Parliament in . The architectural design of the is of Beaux-Arts style. The original building was destroyed in the 1903 Water Riots and was rebuilt in 1907.

Museum
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The is the national museum of , in Port of Spain on island. It is located at the top of Frederick Street, opposite the Memorial Park, and just south of the .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Laventille and Morvant.

Suburb
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is a suburb of Port of Spain in . It is administered by the San Juan–Laventille Regional Corporation.

Suburb
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is a community in located east of Port of Spain in the region of San Juan-Laventille.

Suburb
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, in north-east Port of Spain, in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is located at the foot of the ; it was the city's first suburb.

Port of Spain

Latitude
10.6573° or 10° 39′ 26″ north
Longitude
-61.518° or 61° 31′ 5″ west
Population
37,100
Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)
IATA airport code
POS
UN/LOCODE
TT POS
Open location code
772WMF4J+WQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2718091147
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3573890
Wiki­data ID
Q39178
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Port of Spain” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Port of Spain”
  • Albanian: “Port-of-Spain”
  • Amharic: “ፖርት ኦፍ ስፔን”
  • Arabic: “بورت أوف سبين”
  • Aragonese: “Port of Spain”
  • Armenian: “Պորտ օֆ Սփեյն”
  • Asturian: “Puertu España”
  • Azerbaijani: “Port of Speyn”
  • Azerbaijani: “Port-of-Speyn”
  • Balinese: “Port of Spain”
  • Basque: “Port-of-Spain”
  • Belarusian: “Порт-оф-Спейн”
  • Belarusian: “Порт-оф-Спэйн”
  • Bengali: “পোর্ট অব স্পেন”
  • Bosnian: “Port of Spain”
  • Breton: “Port of Spain”
  • Bulgarian: “Порт ъф Спейн”
  • Catalan: “Port-of-Spain”
  • Cebuano: “Port-of-Spain (ulohang dakbayan sa Trinidad ug Tobago)”
  • Cebuano: “Port-of-Spain”
  • Central Kurdish: “پۆرت ئۆف سپەین”
  • Chechen: “Порт-оф-Спейн”
  • Chinese: “西班牙港”
  • Cornish: “Port of Spain”
  • Corsican: “Port of Spain”
  • Croatian: “Port-of-Spain”
  • Czech: “Port of Spain”
  • Danish: “Port of Spain”
  • Danish: “Port-of-Spain”
  • Dutch: “Port of Spain”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بورت اوف سبين”
  • Esperanto: “Portospeno”
  • Estonian: “Port of Spain”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Port of Spain”
  • Finnish: “Port of Spain”
  • French: “Port-d’Espagne”
  • Galician: “Porto de España”
  • Galician: “Porto España”
  • Georgian: “პორტ-ოვ-სპეინი”
  • German: “Port of Spain”
  • German: “Port-of-Spain”
  • Greek: “Πορτ οφ Σπέιν”
  • Greek: “Πορτ-οφ-Σπέιν”
  • Guarani: “Puerto Epáña”
  • Gujarati: “પોર્ટ ઓફ સ્પેન”
  • Haitian: “Pò of Espay”
  • Haitian: “Pòdespay”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Port of Spain”
  • Hausa: “Port of Spain”
  • Hebrew: “פורט אוף ספיין”
  • Hindi: “पोर्ट ऑफ स्पेन”
  • Hungarian: “Port of Spain”
  • Icelandic: “Port of Spain”
  • Ido: “Port-of-Spain”
  • Indonesian: “Port of Spain”
  • Indonesian: “Port-of-Spain”
  • Interlingue: “Port of Spain”
  • Irish: “Port of Spain”
  • Italian: “Port of Spain”
  • Japanese: “ポートオブスペイン”
  • Kannada: “ಪೋರ್ಟ್ ಆಫ್ ಸ್ಪೇನ್”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Порт-оф-Спейн”
  • Kazakh: “Порт-оф-Спейн”
  • Kirghiz: “Порт-Оф-Спейн”
  • Korean: “포트 오브 스페인”
  • Korean: “포트오브스페인”
  • Kotava: “Port of Spain”
  • Latin: “Portus Hispaniae”
  • Latvian: “Portofspeina”
  • Ligurian: “Pòrto de Spagna”
  • Lithuanian: “Port of Speinas”
  • Livvi: “Port-of-Spein”
  • Lombard: “Port of Spain”
  • Luxembourgish: “Port of Spain”
  • Macedonian: “Порт оф Спејн”
  • Malay: “Port of Spain”
  • Malayalam: “പോർട്ട് ഓഫ് സ്പെയിൻ”
  • Marathi: “पोर्ट ऑफ स्पेन”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Port of Spain”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Port of Spain”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Port-of-Spain”
  • Minangkabau: “Port of Spain”
  • Mingrelian: “პორტ-ოვ-სპეინი”
  • Moksha: “Порт оф Спэйн”
  • Moksha: “Порт-оф-Спэйн”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “پورت ؤف سپاين”
  • N'Ko: “ߊߛߌߔߊ߲߫ ߠߊ߫ ߘߊ߲”
  • Northern Frisian: “Port of Spain”
  • Northern Luri: “پرت آو اسپاین”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Port of Spain”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Port of Spain”
  • Norwegian: “Port of Spain”
  • Novial: “Portu de Spania”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Port of Spain”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ispāniahyð”
  • Ossetian: “Порт-оф-Спейн”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੋਰਟ ਆਫ਼ ਸਪੇਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Port of Spain”
  • Persian: “پرت آو اسپاین”
  • Persian: “پورت آو اسپین”
  • Piemontese: “Port of Spain”
  • Polish: “Port of Spain”
  • Polish: “Port-of-Spain”
  • Portuguese: “Port of Spain”
  • Portuguese: “Porto Espanha”
  • Pushto: “پرت آو اسپاین”
  • Romanian: “Port of Spain”
  • Russian: “Порт-оф-Спейн”
  • Sardinian: “Port of Spain”
  • Scots: “Port o Spain”
  • Scots: “Port o Spainie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Port of Spain”
  • Serbian: “Port-ov-Spejn”
  • Serbian: “Порт ов Спејн”
  • Serbian: “Порт-ов-Спејн”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Port of Spain”
  • Shona: “Port of Spain”
  • Silesian: “Port of Spain”
  • Sindhi: “پورٽ آف اسپين”
  • Sinhala: “පොර්ට් ඔෆ් ස්පේන්”
  • Sinhala: “ස්පාඤ්ඤ වරාය, ට්‍රිනිඩෑඩ් සහ ටොබැගෝ”
  • Slovak: “Port of Spain”
  • Slovenian: “Port of Spain”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پورت آو اسپاین”
  • Spanish: “Puerto España”
  • Swahili: “Port of Spain”
  • Swedish: “Port of Spain”
  • Swedish: “Port-of-Spain”
  • Swiss German: “Port of Spain”
  • Tagalog: “Puerto Espanya”
  • Tagalog: “Puwerto Espanya”
  • Tajik: “Порт-оф-Спейн”
  • Tamil: “போர்ட் ஆஃப் ஸ்பெய்ன்”
  • Telugu: “పోర్ట్‌ ఆఫ్ స్పెయిన్”
  • Thai: “พอร์ต-ออฟ-สเปน”
  • Thai: “พอร์ตออฟสเปน”
  • Tibetan: “པོ་རོ་ཊི་ཨོཕ་སི་པེ་ན།”
  • Turkish: “Port of Spain”
  • Udmurt: “Порт-оф-Спейн”
  • Ukrainian: “Порт-оф-Спейн”
  • Urdu: “پورٹ آف اسپین”
  • Uzbek: “Port-of-speyn”
  • Veps: “Port of Spein”
  • Vietnamese: “Port of Spain”
  • Volapük: “Port of Spain”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Port of Spain”
  • Welsh: “Port of Spain”
  • Welsh: “Porthladd Sbaen”
  • Western Armenian: “Սպանիոյ նաւահանգիստը”
  • Western Frisian: “Port of Spain”
  • Western Panjabi: “پورٹ آف اسپین”
  • Wu Chinese: “西班牙港”
  • Yakut: “Порт оф Спейн”
  • Yoruba: “Port of Spain”
  • Yue Chinese: “西班牙港”
  • Zulu: “i-Port of Spain”
  • “Ācalquīxōhuayān Caxtillān”
  • “Port of Spain”

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