Bermuda 🇧🇲

Bermuda is a territory in North America, and it is not a sovereign state in its own right. The short and official forms of the name are the same. Its seat of government is Hamilton.

The population is about 64,636, placing it 206th of 249 by population — between Dominica above it and Guernsey below. Within North America alone it is the 6th largest of 7 and the 4th most populous.

The land area is 54 km², which ranks it 234th of the 249 countries and territories in this dataset — just behind the British Indian Ocean Territory and just ahead of Saint Martin. Put next to a territory most people can picture, it is a fraction smaller than San Marino.

Bermuda 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. Bermuda 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 currencyBMD
• Its own dialling code+1441
• Its own internet domain.bm
• Its own ISO codesbm / BMU
• A designated capitalHamilton

Its reference point sits at 32.3° north and 64.8° west, which puts it in the northern hemisphere, roughly 3,599 km from the equator, in what geographers would call subtropical latitudes.

Countries on the same parallel, far away in longitude, include Iran, Afghanistan and Morocco.

No land border connects it to another territory. That puts it among the 85 entries of 249 here with no land neighbours, so everything and everyone arrives by sea or by air.

Bermuda 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 Turks and Caicos Islands, roughly 1,360 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 Bermuda's dialling code and internet domain are worth knowing before you travel.

Population divided by land area gives roughly 1,197 people per square kilometre, which makes it among the most densely populated places on earth. The median across all 249 entries here is about 91 per square kilometre.

English is the only official language. Another 90 entries list English too — among them American Samoa, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda and Australia.

The demonym is Bermudian, so residents are Bermudians.

Against the Americas as a whole it is the 42nd most populous of 55 entries, and it accounts for under 1% of everyone living in North America.

The Bermudian dollar (BMD) is used only in Bermuda among the 249 entries on this site. Its own currency is one of the clearest markers of an economy that sets its own monetary policy rather than importing somebody else's.

Language reaches wider still. English is listed for 91 entries here, Bermuda 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 North America and Bermuda sits 4th of 7 by population and 6th by area. Its immediate company in that ordering is Canada just above and Greenland just below, which is a more honest comparison set than a global league table.

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

• 🇨🇦 Canada
• 🇬🇱 Greenland
• 🇺🇸 United States

The currency is the Bermudian dollar ($, BMD). No other entry in this dataset uses it, so the currency is specific to Bermuda.

Its internet country code is .bm. The international dialling code is +1441. In ISO terms it is bm in two letters and BMU in three.

Hamilton is the seat of government and the answer most quizzes are looking for.

It does not hold a UN seat of its own. 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.