Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 🇻🇨

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines lies in the Caribbean, part of the Americas. Its seat of government is Kingstown.

It covers 389 km², which ranks it 210th of the 250 countries and territories in this dataset — just behind Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha and just ahead of Mayotte. That makes it around a quarter larger than Malta.

The population is about 100,616, placing it 201st of 250 by population — between Jersey above it and Antigua and Barbuda below. Within the Caribbean alone it is the 16th largest of 28 and the 16th most populous.

Put next to every other entry on this site, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ranks 210th of 250 by area and 201st by population. That works out at less than a thousandth of a percent of the combined land area of all 250 entries and less than a thousandth of a percent of their combined population. Those denominators matter: this list includes territories and dependencies as well as UN member states, so a rank here is not the same as a rank among sovereign countries.

For a sense of scale, the entries immediately either side of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the size ordering are Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha at 394 km² and Mayotte at 374 km², against Saint Vincent and the Grenadines's 389 km². If you can already picture one of those, you can picture this one.

Density tells a different story from either raw figure. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines averages 259 people per square kilometre of total area, which makes it densely settled by global standards — 57th of the 248 entries that have both a population and a measured area. Total area includes inland water, so the true figure for habitable land is higher than this.

Its reference point sits at 13.3° north and 61.2° west, which puts it in the northern hemisphere, roughly 1,475 km from the equator, in what geographers would call tropical latitudes.

Countries on the same parallel, far away in longitude, include Sudan, Chad and Yemen.

No land border connects it to another country. That puts it among the 85 entries of 250 here with no land neighbours, so everything and everyone arrives by sea or by air.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 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 Saint Lucia, roughly 75 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 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines's dialling code and internet domain are worth knowing before you travel.

Density comes out at around 259 people per square kilometre, which makes it densely populated. The median across all 250 entries here is about 90 per square kilometre.

People from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines are called Saint Vincentians.

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

Against the Americas as a whole it is the 39th most populous of 56 entries, and it accounts for under 1% of everyone living in the Caribbean.

Zoom in from the world to Caribbean and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines sits 16th of 28 by population and 16th by area. Its immediate company in that ordering is United States Virgin Islands just above and Antigua and Barbuda 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.

• 🇻🇮 United States Virgin Islands
• 🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda
• 🇭🇹 Haiti

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 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, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 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.

Money there is the Eastern Caribbean dollar ($, XCD). Another 7 entries use the same currency — Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada and Montserrat among them — so exchange rates move for reasons that have nothing to do with Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

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

Websites there use the .vc domain. The international dialling code is +1784. Its ISO codes are vc and VCT, which is what most databases and flag files use.

As a sovereign state it is among the 193 UN members listed here. The other 57 entries are territories, dependencies or observers, which is why totals on this site run to 250 rather than the familiar 195.