Population is about 4,534 people, the 230th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 1,000,000 of everyone alive.
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Saint Helena
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha ยท Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Seven seas (open ocean)
ยท Western Africa
0Population
394kmยฒ of land
$6.84KGDP / person
-Capital
- ISO codes
- SH ยท SHN
- Density
- 12 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- English
- Currencies
- Pound sterling (GBP), Saint Helena pound (SHP)
- Dial code
- +2
- Internet domain
- .sh
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 15.9500ยฐ S, 5.7130ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Saint Helenian
- UN region
- Africa ยท Western Africa
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Lower middle income
- Total GDP
- $31M
- Sovereignty
- Not independent ยท not a UN member
- Borders
- None
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By the numbers
How Saint Helena stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
230th
of 242 ยท 0.00% of world population
Land area
203rd
of 242 ยท 0.00% of world land
GDP per person
126th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
211th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Saint Helena
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Covers 394 kmยฒ, making it the 203rd largest country here - roughly the size of Malta.
Population density is about 12 people per kmยฒ.
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/St Helena.
The currency is the Pound sterling (GBP, symbol ยฃ).
The official language is English.
Dials on +2 and uses the .sh internet domain.
Annual GDP is around $0 billion - the 234th largest economy here, or about $6,837 per person.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Atlantic/St Helena
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UTC+00:00