Port of Spain
Port of Spain, on the northwest coast of Trinidad island, is the capital city of Trinidad and Tobago. 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.Photo: Christianwelsh, Public domain.
Notable Places in the Area
Hasely Crawford Stadium
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The Hasely Crawford Stadium, formerly the National Stadium, is located in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
Red House
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The Red House is the seat of Parliament in Trinidad and Tobago.
National Museum and Art Gallery
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The National Museum and Art Gallery is the national museum of Trinidad and Tobago, in Port of Spain on Trinidad island.
Localities in the Area
Laventille
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Laventille is a Suburb of Port of Spain in Trinidad and Tobago.
Morvant
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Morvant is a community in Trinidad and Tobago located east of Port of Spain and west of Barataria.
Belmont
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Belmont, in north-east Port of Spain, in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is located at the foot of the Laventille Hills; it was the city's first suburb.
Port of Spain
- Type: City with 37,100 residents
- Description: capital of Trinidad and Tobago
- Categories: political territorial entity, regional corporation or municipality of Trinidad and Tobago and locality
- Location: Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean, North America
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Latitude
10.6573° or 10° 39' 26" northLongitude
-61.518° or 61° 31' 5" westPopulation
37,100Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)IATA airport code
POSUnited Nations Location Code
TT POSOpen Location Code
772WMF4J+WQOpenStreetMap ID
node 2718091147OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3573890Wikidata ID
Q39178Port of Spain Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Port-of-Spain
- Afrikaans: Port of Spain
- Albanian: Port-of-Spain
- Amharic: ፖርት ኦፍ ስፔን
- Arabic: Port of Spain
- Arabic: بورت أوف سبين
- Arabic: بورت اوف سبين
- Aragonese: Port of Spain
- Armenian: Պորտ օֆ Սփեյն
- Asturian: Port-of-Spain
- Asturian: Port of Spain
- Asturian: Puertu España
- Avaric: Port of Spain
- Azerbaijani: Port-of-Speyn
- Azerbaijani: Port of Speyn
- Balinese: Port of Spain
- Basque: Port-of-Spain
- Basque: Port of Spain
- Belarusian: Порт-оф-Спейн
- Belarusian: Порт-оф-Спэйн
- Bengali: পোর্ট অব স্পেন
- Bosnian: Port-of-Spain
- Bosnian: Port of Spain
- Breton: Port of Spain
- Bulgarian: Порт ъф Спейн
- Catalan: Port-of-Spain
- Catalan: Port of Spain
- Cebuano: Port-of-Spain (ulohang dakbayan sa Trinidad ug Tobago)
- Cebuano: Port-of-Spain
- Chechen: Порт-оф-Спейн
- Chinese: Port of Spain
- Chinese: 西班牙港
- Cornish: Port of Spain
- Croatian: Port-of-Spain
- Croatian: Port of Spain
- Czech: Port-of-Spain
- Czech: Port of Spain
- Czech: Puerto España
- Danish: Port-of-Spain
- Danish: Port of Spain
- Dutch: Port-of-Spain
- Dutch: Port of Spain
- Egyptian Arabic: بورت اوف سبين
- English: Cumucurapo
- English: Port-of-Spain
- English: Puerto España
- Esperanto: Portospeno
- Estonian: Port-of-Spain
- Estonian: Port of Spain
- Fiji Hindi: Port of Spain
- Finnish: Port-of-Spain
- Finnish: Port of Spain
- French: Port-d'Espagne
- French: Port-d’espagne
- French: Port-of-Spain
- French: Port d'Espagne
- French: Port of Spain
- French: TTPP
- Galician: Porto España
- Galician: Porto de España
- Georgian: პორტ-ოვ-სპეინი
- German: PoS
- German: Port-of-Spain
- German: Port of Spain
- Greek: Πορτ-οφ-Σπέιν
- Greek: Πορτ οφ Σπέιν
- Guarani: Puerto Epáña
- Gujarati: પોર્ટ ઓફ સ્પેન
- Haitian: Pòdespay
- Haitian: Pò of Espay
- 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
- Italian: Puerto España
- Japanese: ポートオブスペイン
- Japanese: ポート・オブ・スペイン
- Kannada: ಪೋರ್ಟ್ ಆಫ್ ಸ್ಪೇನ್
- Kazakh: Порт-оф-Спейн
- Kirghiz: Порт-Оф-Спейн
- Korean: 포트 오브 스페인
- Korean: 포트오브스페인
- Kotava: Port of Spain
- Latin: Portus Hispaniae
- Latvian: Port-of-Spain
- Latvian: Port of Spain
- Latvian: Portofspeina
- Latvian: Puerto España
- Ligurian: Pòrto de Spagna
- Lithuanian: Port of Spain
- 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: Se-pan-gâ-káng
- Mingrelian: პორტ-ოვ-სპეინი
- Moksha: Порт-оф-Спэйн
- Moroccan Arabic: پورت ؤف سپاين
- N'Ko: ߊߛߌߔߊ߲߫ ߠߊ߫ ߘߊ߲
- N'Ko: ߔߏߙߑߕߏ߫ ߍߛߑߔߊ߲ߣߊ߫
- Northern Frisian: Port of Spain
- Northern Luri: پرت آو اسپاین
- Norwegian: Port of Spain
- Norwegian Bokmål: Port-of-Spain
- Norwegian Bokmål: Port of Spain
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Port of Spain
- Novial: Portu de Spania
- Occitan (post 1500): Port of Spain
- Ossetian: Порт-оф-Спейн
- Panjabi: ਪੋਰਟ ਆਫ਼ ਸਪੇਨ
- Papiamento: Port of Spain
- Persian: بندر اسپانیا
- Persian: پرت آو اسپاین
- Persian: پرت او اسپاین
- Persian: پورت آو اسپاین
- Persian: پورت آو اسپین
- Piemontese: Port of Spain
- Polish: Port-of-Spain
- Polish: Port of Spain
- Portuguese: Port-of-Spain
- Portuguese: Porto-da-Espanha
- Portuguese: Porto-de-Espanha
- Portuguese: Porto Espanha
- Portuguese: Porto da Espanha
- Portuguese: Porto de Espanha
- Portuguese: Port of Spain
- Romanian: Port-of-Spain
- Romanian: Port of Spain
- Russian: Порт-оф-Спейн
- Sardinian: Port of Spain
- Scots: Port o Spainie
- Scots: Port of Spain
- Scottish Gaelic: Port of Spain
- Serbian: Port of Spain
- Serbian: Порт ов Спејн
- Serbian: Порт оф Спеин
- Serbian: Порт оф Спејн
- Serbo-Croatian: Port of Spain
- Shona: Port of Spain
- Silesian: Port of Spain
- Sinhala: පොර්ට් ඔෆ් ස්පේන්
- Slovak: Port of Spain
- Slovenian: Port of Spain
- South Azerbaijani: پورت آو اسپاین
- Spanish: Port-of-Spain
- Spanish: Port of-Spain
- Spanish: Port of Spain
- Spanish: Puerto Espana
- Spanish: Puerto España
- Spanish: Puerto de los Españoles
- Swahili: Port of Spain
- Swedish: Port-of-Spain
- Swedish: Port of Spain
- Tagalog: Port-of-Spain
- Tagalog: Porto Espanya
- Tagalog: Port of Spain
- Tagalog: Puerto Espana
- Tagalog: Puerto España
- Tagalog: Puwerto Espanya
- Tagalog: Puwertong Espanya
- Tagalog: Puwerto ng Espanya
- Tajik: Порт-оф-Спейн
- Tamil: போர்ட் ஆஃப் ஸ்பெய்ன்
- Tamil: போர்ட் ஆப் ஸ்பெயின்
- Telugu: పోర్ట్ ఆఫ్ స్పెయిన్
- Thai: พอร์ต-ออฟ-สเปน
- Thai: พอร์ตออฟสเปน
- Tibetan: པོ་རོ་ཊི་ཨོཕ་སི་པེ་ན་
- Tibetan: པོ་རོ་ཊི་ཨོཕ་སི་པེ་ན།
- Tosk Albanian: Port of Spain
- Turkish: Port-of-Spain
- Turkish: Port of Spain
- Udmurt: Порт-оф-Спейн
- Ukrainian: Порт-ов-Спейн
- Ukrainian: Порт-оф-Спейн
- Urdu: پورٹ آف اسپین
- Urdu: پورٹ اسپین
- Uzbek: Port-of-speyn
- Veps: Port of Spein
- Vietnamese: Cảng Tây Ban Nha
- Vietnamese: Port of Spain
- Volapük: Port of Spain
- Waray (Philippines): Port of Spain
- Welsh: Porthladd Sbaen
- Welsh: Port of Spain
- Western Armenian: Սպանիոյ նաւահանգիստը
- Western Frisian: Port of Spain
- Wu Chinese: 西班牙港
- Yakut: Порт оф Спейн
- Yoruba: Port of Spain
- Yue Chinese: 西班牙港
- Acalquixohuayan Caxtillan
- City of Port-of-Spain
- Port-au-Spain
- Ācalquīxōhuayān Caxtillān
Other Places Named Port of Spain
In the Area
- DowntownSuburb
- St Clair, Port of SpainSuburb
- John JohnSuburb
- Federation ParkSuburb
- Sea LotsQuarter
- MucurapoSuburb
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