Population is about 30 people, the 240th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 1,000,000 of everyone alive.
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S. Geo. and the Is.
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands ยท South Georgia
Seven seas (open ocean)
ยท Seven seas (open ocean)
0Population
3.9Kkmยฒ of land
$0GDP / person
-Capital
- ISO codes
- GS ยท SGS
- Density
- -
- Languages
- English
- Currency
- Saint Helena pound (SHP)
- Dial code
- +500
- Internet domain
- .gs
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 55.6830ยฐ S, 31.0630ยฐ W
- Demonym
- South Georgian South Sandwich Islander
- UN region
- Americas ยท Seven seas (open ocean)
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Low income
- Total GDP
- -
- Sovereignty
- Not independent ยท not a UN member
- Borders
- None
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By the numbers
How S. Geo. and the Is. stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
240th
of 242 ยท 0.00% of world population
Land area
176th
of 242 ยท 0.00% of world land
GDP per person
241st
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
239th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about S. Geo. and the Is.
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Covers 3,903 kmยฒ, making it the 176th largest country here.
Has no land neighbours - it is an island nation, surrounded entirely by water.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Atlantic/South Georgia.
The currency is the Saint Helena pound (SHP, symbol ยฃ).
The official language is English.
Dials on +500 and uses the .gs internet domain.
Sits in Seven seas (open ocean), in the Seven seas (open ocean) sub-region, and lies in the southern temperate belt.
People from S. Geo. and the Is. are called South Georgian South Sandwich Islander.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Atlantic/South Georgia
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UTCโ02:00