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Oranjestad

capital city of Aruba
City city Q131243

Facts

17 properties

Identity

Instance of
city
Inception
1796[8]
Native label
Oranjestad, Orangetown, Playa[15][16][17]
Official name
Oranjestad[14]

Location

Country
Aruba[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 12.519°, -70.036°
Located in or next to body of water
Paardenbaai[4]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Aruba[2]

Population and size

Area
+23[20]
Elevation above sea level
+4[19]
Population
29k (28k–35k, n=4)[9][10][11][12]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 28,294 · 34,980 · 35,335 · 28,658 GeoNames 29,998 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
More facts +6
Capital of
Aruba[13]
Different from
Oranjestad[18]
Named after
William I of the Netherlands[7]
Official language
Dutch, Papiamento[5][6]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
Wiki goes Caribbean, Wikipedia on Aruba | Aruba on Wikipedia[21][22]
P14541
PKiXr[23]
🏷️ Also known as
en Oranjestad en Oranjestad, Aruba ar أورنجستاد cs Orangetown el Οράνιεστατ es Oranjestad (Aruba) fa اورنجستاد fr Oranjestad (Aruba) he אורנייסטאד hi ओरान्यस्टाड hu Narancsváros ja オラニエスタッド ko 오라녜스타트 ru Ораньестад th โอรันเยสตัด uk Ораньєстад zh 奥拉涅斯塔德 zh 奥腊涅斯塔德 zh 橘城 zh-hant 奧臘涅斯塔德
🔖 Identifiers · 35
VIAF cluster ID
153753505
GND ID
5111369-7
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
ARUBA-oranjestad-hafen-1.jpg ↗
BBC Things ID
62b6f765-50b2-409c-add2-ee6434de6214
BlackPast.org ID
global-african-history/oranjestad-aruba-16th-century
Dewey Decimal Classification
2--72986
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID
529263
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Oranjestad-Aruba
Facebook location ID
109676992391488
FactGrid item ID
Johann Friedrich Zückert
Freebase ID
/m/026mph
GNS Unique Feature ID
-1307825
Show all 35 identifiers +23
GeoNames ID
3577154
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
1013002
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
oranjestad-0
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0265394
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Oranjestad_-_hovedstad_i_Aruba
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2682861
Gynopedia ID
Oranjestad
Lex ID
Oranjestad
MusicBrainz area ID
c551cddd-b763-41da-a78a-3102f89d4a89
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007562690505171
OpenStreetMap node ID
50031810
OpenStreetMap relation ID
14034189
OpenWeatherMap city ID
3577154
RKD thesaurus ID
3990
SNARC ID
U.C. Sampdoria
Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID
geografico/1118388
Topic's main category
Category:Oranjestad, Aruba
Treccani ID
oranjestad
TripAdvisor ID
147248
WOEID
56069
Who's on First ID
890432017
WikiKids ID
Oranjestad_(Aruba)
Yale LUX ID
place/795bcf83-cee2-4ecd-864f-22e19b287689

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🔗 Connections
People born here 19
Dave Benton, Mike Eman, Fredis Refunjol, Nelson Oduber, Xander Bogaerts, Jayme Mata, Nicole Hoevertsz, David Abdul +11 more
Contained subdivisions 18
Guillermo Prospero Trinidad Stadium, Hooiberg, National Library of Aruba, Archaeological Museum of Aruba, Fort Zoutman, Oranjestad Streetcar, Beth Israel Synagogue, St. Francis of Assisi Church, Oranjestad +10 more
← Headquarters location 16
SV River Plate Aruba, Central Bank of Aruba, National Library of Aruba, People's Electoral Movement, Aruba Airlines, SV Estrella, SV Deportivo Nacional, Miss Aruba +8 more
Located in this place 9
National Library of Aruba, disappearance of Natalee Holloway, St. Francis of Assisi Church, Oranjestad, University of Aruba, Cas di Cultura, Censo / Ex Hotel Colombia, Kalkoven (Aruba), Stadhuis, Oranjestad, Aruba +1 more
People who died here 6
Felipe Tromp, Padú del Caribe, René Notten, Aletta Clémence Beaujon, Ernesto Petronia, Rudy Croes
Located in time zone 2
UTC−04:00, Atlantic Time Zone
Official language 2
Dutch, Papiamento
← Category combines topics 2
Category:Births in Oranjestad, Aruba, Category:People from Oranjestad, Aruba
← Location of formation 2
SV River Plate Aruba, SV Racing Club Aruba
Capital of 1
Aruba
Category for people born here 1
Category:Births in Oranjestad, Aruba
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Oranjestad, Aruba
Country 1
Aruba
Different from 1
Oranjestad
Instance of 1
city
Located in or next to body of water 1
Paardenbaai
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Aruba
Named after 1
William I of the Netherlands
SNARC ID 1
U.C. Sampdoria
Topic's main category 1
Category:Oranjestad, Aruba
← Capital 1
Aruba
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Oranjestad, Aruba
← Different from 1
Oranjestad
← FactGrid item ID 1
Saint-Céneré
← Place of burial 1
Boy Ecury
← Place served by transport hub 1
Queen Beatrix International Airport
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Summary

Oranjestad is a city[1].

Related Entities

Aruba Aureus University School of Medicine city Dave Benton University of Aruba University of Aruba SISSTEM William I of the Netherlands Xavier University School of Medicine

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [4] ↑ . paardenbaai.com. Retrieved . paardenbaai.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . arcg.is. arcg.is. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  16. [17] ↑ . designrr.page. designrr.page. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 24d ago · KrBot bot · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Native label → {'lang': 'nl', 'text': 'Oranjestad'}, {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Orangetown'}, {'lang': 'pap', 'text': 'Playa'}
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetreference-add:2| */ Native label: Playa"
  2. 26d ago · Ginelly.Q · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Native label → {'lang': 'nl', 'text': 'Oranjestad'}, {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Orangetown'}, {'lang': 'pap', 'text': 'Playa'}
    Sitelink count → 96
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'an', 'ang', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'br', 'bs'
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Native label: Playa"
  3. 14w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/43894|batch #43894]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  4. 17w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Bbc things id → —
    Named after → William I of the Netherlands
    OpenStreetMap relation ID → 14034189
    Capital of → —
    + 114 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
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