Basel (disambiguation)

Basel may refer to:

• Basel, a city in Switzerland, capital of the canton of Basel-City
• Basel (canton), a historical Swiss canton, now divided into two cantons:
  • Basel-Country
  • Basel-City
• FC Basel – a football (soccer) club based in Basel, Switzerland
• the Roman Catholic Church's Diocese of Basel
• the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), an international banking regulatory body
• Basel Accords
  • Basel I, the first (1988) accord on banking capital
  • Basel II, the second (2004) accord on banking capital
  • Basel III, the anticipated third (est. 2010) accord on banking capital
• Basel, East Flanders, a village in East Flanders in Belgium
• Basel Convention, a treaty to reduce the movements of hazardous waste between nations
• Basel problem, a famous problem in number theory
• Zoo Basel, Switzerland's oldest and largest zoo.

People named Basel

• Alfred Basel, Austrian painter
• Edgar Basel, German boxer

See also

• Basil, a plant and culinary herb
• Basil (name), of which Basel is a variant
• Basal (disambiguation), referring to a base or minimum level
• Basell Polyolefins