Basel Zoological Garden

Local nameZoologischer Garten Basel
LocationBachletten, Basel, Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera/Svizra

Zoo Basel is a non-profit zoo in the city of Basel, Switzerland. Its official name is Zoologischer Garten Basel — or in English: Basel Zoological Garden. Basel residents affectionately call it Zolli. Its main entrance is just outside Basel's downtown strip of Steinen-Vorstadt and extends in the Birsig stream valley to Basel's city border with Binningen, Basel-Country.

Zoo Basel is Switzerland's oldest and largest zoo. With over 1.8 million visitors per year, it is the most visited tourist attraction in Switzerland with an entrance fee.Zoo Basel was ranked as one of the fifteen best zoos in the world by Forbes Traveler in 2008 and in 2009 as the seventh best in Europe by Anthony Sheridan from the Zoological Society of London.The zoo had the first Indian rhinoceros birth in a zoo, as well as the first greater flamingo hatch. It has had repeated breeding success with animals including cheetahs, okapi, pygmy hippopotamuses, and flamingos.

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More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_Basel

Official website http://www.zoobasel.ch/

Address Basel 4054, Switzerland

Coordinates 47°32'49.622" N 7°34'43.352" E

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