Anguilla 🇦🇮

Anguilla belongs to the Caribbean, and it is a dependent territory rather than a country in the political sense. The Valley is the capital.

By land area it covers 91 km², which ranks it 230th of the 249 countries and territories in this dataset — just behind Montserrat and just ahead of Guernsey. For scale, it is about half again the size of San Marino.

Around 15,900 people live there, placing it 226th of 249 by population — between the Cook Islands above it and Nauru below. Among the 28 entries in the Caribbean it ranks 25th by area and 26th by population.

Anguilla does not hold a United Nations seat of its own. It is administered as a dependency or overseas territory rather than as a sovereign state, which is why it sits outside the 192 member states while still appearing among the 249 entries on this site.

Not holding a UN seat is not the same as having no self-government, and the administrative details make that clear. Anguilla has 5 of the five markers of separate administration tracked on this page — its own currency, its own dialling code, its own internet domain, its own iso codes and a designated capital. In day-to-day terms it is run substantially as its own jurisdiction.

• Its own currencyXCD
• Its own dialling code+1264
• Its own internet domain.ai
• Its own ISO codesai / AIA
• A designated capitalThe Valley

The coordinates the dataset gives are 18.3° N, 63.2° W, which puts it in the northern hemisphere, roughly 2,032 km from the equator, in what geographers would call tropical latitudes.

India, Mali and Mauritania sit at almost exactly the same latitude on other parts of the globe.

No land border connects it to another territory. That puts it among the 85 entries of 249 here with no land neighbours, which shapes how it trades and who it deals with.

Anguilla has no land border with any country, which changes what "nearby" means. Measured centre to centre in a straight line, the closest other entry on this site is Sint Maarten, roughly 25 km away. These are approximate distances between representative points, not the shortest crossing between two shorelines, so treat them as a sense of scale rather than a sailing chart.

No land border also means no land crossing: everything and everyone arrives by sea or by air. That single fact drives a lot of what follows on this page, from how goods reach the shops to why Anguilla's dialling code and internet domain are worth knowing before you travel.

Density comes out at around 175 people per square kilometre, which makes it more crowded than the typical entry on this list. For comparison, the median entry on this list sits near 91 per square kilometre.

English is the only official language. English is one of the widely shared official languages here, listed by 90 other entries including American Samoa, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia and the Bahamas.

Someone from Anguilla is an Anguillian.

Inside the Americas it places 50th of 55 by population, and it accounts for under 1% of everyone living in the Caribbean.

Anguilla does not have the Eastern Caribbean dollar to itself. It is one of 8 entries on this site that use the currency, whose code is XCD, and the others include listed below. A shared currency usually points at something real — a monetary union, a currency board, a former colonial administration, or a small economy pegging itself to a large neighbour's money — and it means a price quoted in XCD travels further than you might expect.

Language reaches wider still. English is listed for 91 entries here, Anguilla among them, so a visitor who speaks it can be understood across a large part of the map. Shared language tends to outlive the empires, trade routes and migrations that spread it, which is why the linguistic map and the political one rarely line up.

Zoom in from the world to Caribbean and Anguilla sits 26th of 28 by population and 25th by area. Its immediate company in that ordering is Saint Martin just above and Saint Barthélemy just below, which is a more honest comparison set than a global league table.

Haiti is the largest of the group by population, and every entry in Caribbean has its own page here if you want to work through the whole neighbourhood rather than one country at a time.

• 🇲🇫 Saint Martin
• 🇧🇱 Saint Barthélemy
• 🇭🇹 Haiti

The currency is the Eastern Caribbean dollar ($, XCD). That is a shared currency: 7 other entries use it, including Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat and Saint Kitts and Nevis.

The Valley is the city to remember for this territory.

Its internet country code is .ai. Calls from overseas start with +1264. Standard country codes: ai and AIA.

On the UN list it does not appear as a member. The dataset does not record which state administers it, so this page does not guess. Of the 249 entries here, 57 are territories or observers rather than member states.