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Basseterre

City · Saint Kitts and Nevis

About this place

Natural Earth classifies Basseterre as admin-0 capital in Saint Kitts and Nevis. 4PLANET ATLAS represents Basseterre as a stable geographic object at Natural Earth reference coordinate 17.302031, -62.717009. The coordinate is used to open the intended map context; it is not an administrative boundary, ecological boundary or claim about conditions across the whole place.

Geographic context: Saint Kitts and Nevis. A canonical parent object is not yet published in this cohort.

Verified geographic hierarchy: Saint Kitts and Nevis → Caribbean → North America.

Source identity: Natural Earth NE_ID 1159150435 · ISO KN · Wikidata Q41295 · GeoNames 3575551.

Open Basseterre in ATLAS. The handoff carries the same place slug and reference coordinate so the geographic entry point and interactive map resolve to the same object.

Living Planet Intelligence

Geographic identity is published independently from ecological interpretation. Living Systems, Species, Pressures, Missions, Evidence and Solutions are connected here only when the shared 4PLANET evidence model supports the relationship. Until then, those relationships remain unknown rather than being inferred from the place name.

Related places in the current index

• Saint John's — City, Antigua and Barbuda
• Roseau — City, Dominica
• Castries — City, Saint Lucia
• Kingstown — City, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Source and provenance

Geographic source: Natural Earth 1:50m Populated Places v5.1.2. Source feature 1159150435 · upstream file 3fad8f0038ba. Natural Earth data is public domain; terms of use. Source reference checked 2026-10-07.

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