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Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia is a country in Caribbean. Its capital city is Castries. About 182 thousand people live there, in an area of 616 square kilometres.
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Where is Saint Lucia?
Saint Lucia lies in Caribbean, on the continent of Americas.
It sits in the northern half of the world, roughly 1 545 km from the equator.
Its coastline is about 158 km long.
It has no land neighbours — every border it has is with the sea.
How big is Saint Lucia?
Saint Lucia covers 616 square kilometres.
Luxembourg is about 4.2 times bigger.
Among the world's countries that makes it the 177th largest.
If everybody spread out evenly, there would be about 295.3 people on every square kilometre.
Who lives in Saint Lucia?
About 182 thousand people live in Saint Lucia.
That is the 176th biggest population in the world.
People here speak English.
They pay with the Eastern Caribbean dollar ($).
On average, people born here can expect to live about 72 years.
The land of Saint Lucia
Its coast runs for about 158 km. Walking it end to end, at twenty kilometres a day, would take roughly 8 days.
It lies inside the tropics, which is the single biggest reason its weather is the way it is.
What makes Saint Lucia different?
Websites from here often end in .lc.
Saint Lucia and the rest of the world
Out of every thousand people alive on Earth, about 0 live in Saint Lucia.
It takes up about 0 % of all the land that countries stand on.
Within Americas it is the 30th largest of 35 countries, and the 30th most populated.
That is busier than the world average of roughly 60 people per square kilometre.
Where this country lands in the record lists
Questions children ask
What is the capital of Saint Lucia?
The capital of Saint Lucia is Castries. It is the city where the country's government works from.
How many people live in Saint Lucia?
About 182 thousand people live in Saint Lucia, which makes it the 176th most populated country in the world. (Source: World Bank, 2018.)
How big is Saint Lucia?
Saint Lucia covers 616 square kilometres, making it the 177th largest country in the world. Luxembourg is about 4.2 times bigger.
Which continent is Saint Lucia in?
Saint Lucia is in Americas, in the part called Caribbean.
Where these numbers come from
Borders and outlines: Natural Earth. Names, capitals, areas, languages and currencies: ISO 3166 data (world-countries). Population: World Bank, 2018. Every derived figure on this page (ranks, density, distance from the equator) is calculated from those values.
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