Basel
One of Switzerland's underrated tourist destinations, Basel has a beautiful medieval old town centre, a fascinating carnival, and several world class art museums built by architects like Renzo Piano, Mario Botta and Herzog & De Meuron.Photo: Lucazzitto, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 174,000 residents
- Description: city on the Rhine, in Switzerland
- Postal codes: 4000, 4001, 4031 and 4051-4059
- Neighbors: Saint-Louis and Weil am Rhein
Notable Places in the Area
Kunstmuseum Basel
The Kunstmuseum Basel houses the oldest public art collection in the world and is generally considered to be the most important museum of art in Switzerland.Basel SBB Railway Station
Photo: Chiccodoro, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Basel SBB railway station is the central railway station in the city of Basel, Switzerland.
Basel Zoo
Photo: TeamBurton, Public domain.
Zoo Basel is a non-profit zoo in the city of Basel, Switzerland.
Localities in the Area
Saint-Louis
Photo: Comstagiaire SL, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Saint-Louis is in Grand-Est. Despite being separated from it by an international border, it serves in many ways as a suburb of Basel, including being linked to its tram network.
Weil am Rhein
Photo: Taxiarchos228, CC BY 3.0.
Weil am Rhein is a German town and commune. It is on the east bank of the River Rhine, and extends to the tripoint of Switzerland, France, and Germany.
Binningen
Photo: Daendy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Binningen is a municipality in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.
Basel
Latitude
47.5581° or 47° 33' 29" northLongitude
7.5878° or 7° 35' 16" eastPopulation
174,000Elevation
279 metres (915 feet)IATA airport codes
EAP and BSLUnited Nations Location Code
CH BSLOpen Location Code
8FV9HH5Q+64OpenStreetMap ID
node 27284711OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2661604Wikidata ID
Q78Basel Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Bazel
- Afrikaans: Basel
- Afrikaans: Bâle
- Akan: Basel
- Akan: Bâle
- Albanian: Basel
- Albanian: Bazeli
- Albanian: Bâle
- Amharic: ባዝል
- Arabic: Basel
- Arabic: بازل
- Arabic: باسل
- Armenian: Բազել
- Armenian: Պազել
- Arpitan: Bâla
- Arpitan: Bâle
- Asturian: Basel
- Asturian: Basilea
- Asturian: Bâle
- Avaric: Basel
- Azerbaijani: Bazel
- Azerbaijani: Bâle
- Balinese: Basel
- Basque: Basilea
- Basque: Bâle
- Belarusian: Базель
- Belarusian: Базэль
- Bengali: বাজেল
- Bhojpuri: बासेल
- Bhojpuri: बेसल
- Bosnian: Basel
- Bosnian: Bâle
- Breton: Basel
- Breton: Bâle
- Bulgarian: Базел
- Catalan: Basilea
- Catalan: Bâle
- Cebuano: Basel (kapital sa kanton)
- Cebuano: Basel
- Central Kurdish: بازل
- Chavacano: Basilea
- Chavacano: Bâle
- Chechen: Базель
- Chinese: Basel
- Chinese: 巴塞尔
- Chinese: 巴塞爾
- Chinese: 巴泽尔
- Chinese: 巴澤爾
- Chuvash: Базель
- Croatian: Basel
- Croatian: Bâle
- Czech: Basilej
- Czech: Bâle
- Danish: Basel
- Danish: Bâle
- Dimli (individual language): Basel
- Dimli (individual language): Bâle
- Dutch: Basel
- Dutch: Bazel
- Egyptian Arabic: بازل
- English: Basel BS
- English: Basle
- English: Bâle
- Esperanto: Basel
- Esperanto: Bazelo
- Estonian: Basel
- Estonian: Bâle
- Faroese: Basel
- Faroese: Bâle
- Finnish: Basel
- Finnish: Bâle
- French: Basel
- French: Bâle
- Galician: Bale
- Galician: Basel
- Galician: Basilea
- Galician: Bâle
- Georgian: ბაზელი
- German: Basel
- German: Bâle
- Greek: Βασιλεία
- Gujarati: બેસેલ
- Hakka Chinese: Basel
- Hakka Chinese: Bâle
- Hausa: Basel
- Hebrew: בזל
- Hindi: बासेल
- Hungarian: Bázel
- Hungarian: Bâle
- Icelandic: Basel
- Icelandic: Bâle
- Ido: Basel
- Ido: Bâle
- Inari Sami: Basel
- Indonesian: Basel
- Indonesian: Bâle
- Interlingua: Basel
- Interlingua: Bâle
- Interlingue: Basel
- Interlingue: Bâle
- Irish: Basel
- Irish: Bâle
- Italian: Basilea
- Italian: Bâle
- Japanese: バーゼル
- Javanese: Basel
- Javanese: Bâle
- Kabyle: Bazel
- Kannada: ಬಾಸೆಲ್
- Kazakh: Базель
- Korean: 바젤
- Kotava: Basel
- Kurdish: Basel
- Ladin: Basel
- Ladino: Basilea
- Ladino: Bâle
- Latin: Basilea
- Latin: Basilia
- Latin: Bâle
- Latin: Robur
- Latvian: Bāzele
- Lingala: Bâle
- Lithuanian: Bazelis
- Lombard: Basilea
- Lombard: Bâle
- Low German: Basel
- Low German: Bâle
- Luxembourgish: Basel
- Luxembourgish: Bâle
- Macedonian: Базел
- Malay: Basel
- Malay: Bâle
- Maltese: Bażel
- Marathi: बासल
- Min Dong Chinese: Basel
- Min Dong Chinese: Bâle
- Min Nan Chinese: Basel
- Min Nan Chinese: Bâle
- Mingrelian: ბაზელი
- Mongolian: Базель
- Mongolian: Базель хот
- Nauru: Basel
- Nauru: Bâle
- Neapolitan: Basilea
- Neapolitan: Bâle
- Nepali: बेसेल
- Northern Frisian: Bâle
- Northern Frisian: Bāsel
- Norwegian: Basel
- Norwegian Bokmål: Basel
- Norwegian Bokmål: Bâle
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Basel
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Bâle
- Nyanja: Basel
- Nyanja: Bâle
- Occitan (post 1500): Basilèa
- Ossetian: Базель
- Persian: بازل
- Piemontese: Basilea
- Polish: Bazylea
- Polish: Bâle
- Portuguese: Basileia
- Portuguese: Basiléia
- Portuguese: Bâle
- Pushto: بازل شتادت
- Quechua: Basel
- Quechua: Bâle
- Romanian: Basel
- Romanian: Bâle
- Romansh: Basilea.
- Romansh: Basilea
- Romansh: Bâle
- Russian: Базель
- Saterfriesisch: Basel
- Saterfriesisch: Bâle
- Scots: Basel
- Scots: Bâle
- Scottish Gaelic: Basel
- Scottish Gaelic: Bâle
- Serbian: Базел
- Serbo-Croatian: Basel
- Serbo-Croatian: Bâle
- Sicilian: Basilea
- Sicilian: Bâle
- Silesian: Basel
- Silesian: Bâle
- Sinhala: බැසෙල්
- Slovak: Bazilej
- Slovak: Bâle
- Slovenian: Basel
- Slovenian: Bâle
- South Azerbaijani: بازل
- Spanish: Basilea
- Spanish: Bâle
- Swahili: Basel
- Swahili: Bâle
- Swedish: Basel
- Swedish: Basilea
- Swedish: Bâle
- Swiss German: Basel
- Tagalog: Basel
- Tagalog: Bâle
- Tajik: Базел
- Tamil: பேசெல்
- Tatar: Базел
- Telugu: బాసెల్
- Thai: บาเซิล
- Tibetan: པ་སེལ།
- Tosk Albanian: Basel
- Turkish: Basel
- Turkish: Basel BS
- Turkish: Basilea
- Turkish: Basilia
- Turkish: Bâle
- Ukrainian: Базель
- Upper Sorbian: Basel
- Upper Sorbian: Bâle
- Urdu: بازل
- Urdu: بازیل
- Uzbek: Bazel
- Uzbek: Bâle
- Venetian: Baxiłea
- Venetian: Bazilea
- Venetian: Bâle
- Vietnamese: Basel
- Vietnamese: Bâle
- Vlaams: Bazel
- Volapük: Basel
- Volapük: Bâle
- Waray (Philippines): Basel
- Waray (Philippines): Bâle
- Welsh: Basel
- Welsh: Bâle
- Western Armenian: Պազել
- Western Frisian: Basel
- Western Frisian: Bâle
- Wu Chinese: 白才尔
- Yiddish: באזעל
- Yue Chinese: 巴塞爾
Other Places Named Basel
In the Area
- Altstadt GrossbaselSuburb
- Altstadt KleinbaselSuburb
- Basel-VorstaedteSuburb
- Basel-Am RingSuburb
- Basel-ClaraSuburb
- Basel-MatthäusSuburb
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