Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia is a country in Caribbean, with its capital at Castries, and is home to roughly 179.7K people.
English is the official language; the currency in circulation is Eastern Caribbean dollar ($); people from here are called Saint Lucian.
- »Saint Lucia has produced two Nobel laureates from a population of under 200,000.
Saint Lucia shares no land border with anything, so every approach is by sea or air. The closest other territories on file are Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (76 km), Barbados (172 km) and Dominica (176 km), measured centre to centre.
Castries has a deep harbour that made it a coaling station, and the island changed hands between Britain and France fourteen times.
607 km² (234 sq mi), 178th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Tonga.
Population 179,744, 180th of 198 on file. That averages 296 per km² (767 per sq mi).
The black and white triangles over gold on blue represent the twin Pitons, volcanic spires rising straight from the sea, and the island's two main cultural traditions.