Nevis
Nevis is the smaller of the two islands that make up the small Caribbean island nation, the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis. A former British colony, these islands became independent from Britain in 1983.Photo: Btibbets, Public domain.
Photo: mkeefe, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Nevis Peak
Photo: Jensonmorton, Public domain.
Nevis Peak is a potentially active volcano which is located in the centre of the island of Nevis of the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis in the West Indies.
Pinney's Beach
Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0.
Pinney's Beach, also spelled Pinneys Beach, is a very long sandy beach on the western Caribbean coast of the island of Nevis, in Saint Kitts and Nevis, Leeward Islands in the West Indies.
Localities in the Area
Figtree
Figtree is a town on the island of Nevis in Saint Kitts and Nevis.Market Shop
Market Shop is a village on the island of Nevis in Saint Kitts and Nevis.Cotton Ground
Cotton Ground is a town on the island of Nevis in Saint Kitts and Nevis.Nevis
- Type: Island
- Description: island in the Caribbean Sea
- Categories: first-level administrative division, federated state and landform
- Location: Saint Kitts and Nevis, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
17.1525° or 17° 9' 9" northLongitude
-62.5867° or 62° 35' 12" westPopulation
12,300Elevation
732 metres (2,402 feet)United Nations Location Code
KN NEVOpen Location Code
779V5C27+X8GeoNames ID
3575263Wikidata ID
Q207794Nevis Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Nevis
- Arabic: جزيرة نيفيس
- Arabic: نيفيس
- Basque: Nevis
- Belarusian: Востраў Невіс
- Belarusian: Невіс
- Breton: Nevis
- Bulgarian: Невис
- Catalan: Nevis
- Cebuano: Nevis
- Chinese: 尼維斯
- Chinese: 尼維斯島
- Chinese: 尼维斯
- Chinese: 尼维斯岛
- Czech: Nevis
- Danish: Nevis
- Dutch: Nevis
- English: Dulcina
- English: Meavis
- English: Meves
- English: Mevis
- English: Neves
- English: Nevis Island
- English: Nievis
- Esperanto: Neviso
- Estonian: Nevis
- Finnish: Nevis
- French: Nevis
- French: Niévès
- French: TKPN
- French: Île Nevis
- French: Île Niévès
- French: Île de Nevis
- Galician: Nevis
- German: Nevis
- Greek: Νέβις
- Hebrew: נוויס
- Hungarian: Nevis
- Indonesian: Nevis
- Italian: Nevis
- Japanese: ネイビス
- Japanese: ネイビス島
- Korean: 네비스 섬
- Korean: 네비스섬
- Latin: Insula Nivium
- Lingua Franca Nova: Nevis
- Lithuanian: Nevis
- Macedonian: Невис
- Norwegian: Nevis
- Norwegian Bokmål: Nevis
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Nevis
- Occitan (post 1500): Illa de las Nèus
- Occitan (post 1500): Nevis
- Occitan (post 1500): Nèus
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Nefis
- Persian: نویس
- Polish: Nevis
- Portuguese: Ilha Neves
- Portuguese: Ilha Nevis
- Portuguese: Neves
- Portuguese: Nevis
- Romanian: Insula Nevis
- Romanian: Nevis
- Russian: Невис
- Scots: Nevis
- Scottish Gaelic: Nevis
- Scottish Gaelic: Nibheis
- Serbian: Nevis
- Serbian: Невис
- Serbo-Croatian: Nevis
- Slovenian: Nevis
- Spanish: Isla Nieves
- Spanish: Isla de Nieves
- Spanish: Nevis
- Spanish: Nieves
- Swedish: Nevis
- Tamil: நெவிசு
- Thai: นีวิส
- Thai: เนวิส
- Turkish: Nevis
- Ukrainian: Невіс
- Urdu: ناویس
- Vietnamese: Nevis
- Waray (Philippines): Nevis (purô)
- Welsh: Nevis
- Yue Chinese: 尼維斯島
Other Places Named Nevis
In the Area
- Church GroundNeighbourhood
- Fern HillVillage
- HarrisLocality
- Hick's VillageVillage
- Spring HillVillage
- Barnes GhautVillage
Popular Destinations in Saint Kitts and Nevis
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Nevis. Photo: mkeefe, CC BY-SA 3.0.