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Kingstown is the capital and largest city of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

Kingstown
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The place

Kingstown is the capital and largest city of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The city, located on the main island of Saint Vincent, has the main port and the biggest commercial center of the islands. With a population of 12,909 (2012), Kingstown is the most populous settlement in the country. It is the island's agricultural industry centre and a port of entry for tourists. The city lies within the parish of Saint George in the south-west corner of Saint Vincent.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kingstown

5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Arnos Vale Stadium

    The Arnos Vale Stadium is a cricket ground in Arnos Vale, near Kingstown, St. Vincent.

    2.3 km · stadium · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Kingstown

    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kingstown is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in the Caribbean. The diocese comprises the entirety of the nation of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

    400 m · diocese of the Catholic Church in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Assumption Cathedral, Kingstown

    The Assumption Cathedral, also called Catholic Cathedral of Kingstown or Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption or simply St. Mary's Cathedral, is a Catholic cathedral located in the city of Kingstown the capital, port city and the main commercial center of the Caribbean country of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the East of the Lesser Antilles.

    300 m · church in Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Victoria Park

    Independence Park formally known as Victoria Park is a multi-use stadium in Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. It is used as the stadium of Avenues United FC matches.

    500 m · stadium in Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Fort Charlotte

    Fort Charlotte is a British-colonial era fort, built on a hill overlooking the harbour of Kingstown, Saint Vincent. It is located in the parish of Saint Andrew, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines at the top of Edinboro road, on Berkshire Hill, just west of the town.

    1.9 km · fort in Saint Vincent · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Botanic Gardens

From Wikivoyage: Kingstown, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

Cricket:

  1. 01
    Arnos Vale Stadium

    With a capacity of 18,000, this is multi-use but primarily a cricket ground.

From Wikivoyage: Kingstown, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Veejays

    Cheap traditional Vincentian Cajun/Creole cuisine.

From Wikivoyage: Kingstown, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Kingstown

Airports
Argyle (SVD), 8 km · Hewanorra (UVF), 70 km · Maurice Bishop (GND), 142 km
Stations
E. T. Joshua Airport, 2.1 km
  • Vieux Fort → Kingstown
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Saint George's → Kingstown
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  • Fort-de-France → Kingstown
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kingstown

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Kingstown. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inOther commercial and charter providers with destinations in parenthesis include: Air Canada Rouge (Toronto-Pearson) American Airlines (Miami) Caribbean Airlines (Barbados, Grenada, New York (JFK), Port of Spain) InterCaribbean Airways (Barbados and Saint Lucia-Charles) Mustique Airways (Barbados, Bequia, Canouan, Mustique, Union Island) One Caribbean (Barbados, Grenada, Tortola) SVG Air (Barbados, Bequia, Canouan, Mustique, St.
  • Get inLucia-Hewanorra, Union Island) Virgin Atlantic (Barbados, London-Heathrow) Air charter companies such as Air Charter Advisors offer access to aircraft rentals around the world, with planes for on-demand charter ranging from economical single & twin engines aircraft to small jets and luxury planes.
  • Get inSunwing Airlines also specializes in charter flights from Canada using a fleet of Boeing 737-800 aircraft.

From Wikivoyage: Saint Vincent, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-04.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    NevisKN

    8 ways of moving, 15 sources

    467 km
  2. 02
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    542 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    689 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    714 km
  5. 05
    GeorgetownGY

    12 ways of moving, 39 sources

    782 km

If you know how people move in Kingstown – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Kingstown

  • Arnos Valetown in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines2.4 km
  • Edinborosuburb in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines2.8 km