Population is about 97,625 people, the 198th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 78,637 of everyone alive.
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Seychelles
Republic of Seychelles ยท Sesel
Seven seas (open ocean)
ยท Eastern Africa
0Population
452kmยฒ of land
$17.44KGDP / person
VictoriaCapital
- ISO codes
- SC ยท SYC
- Density
- 216 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Seychellois Creole, English, French
- Currency
- Seychellois rupee (SCR)
- Dial code
- +248
- Internet domain
- .sc
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 4.6770ยฐ S, 55.4800ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Seychellois
- UN region
- Africa ยท Eastern Africa
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $1.7B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- None
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By the numbers
How Seychelles stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
198th
of 242 ยท 0.00% of world population
Land area
198th
of 242 ยท 0.00% of world land
GDP per person
75th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
62nd
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Seychelles
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Covers 452 kmยฒ, making it the 198th largest country here.
Population density is about 216 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Victoria, at 4.62ยฐ S, 55.45ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 33,576.
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, Indian/Mahe.
The currency is the Seychellois rupee (SCR, symbol โจ).
Has 3 official languages: Seychellois Creole, English and French.
Dials on +248 and uses the .sc internet domain.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Indian/Mahe
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UTC+04:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
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Victoria
4.6166ยฐ S, 55.4500ยฐ E
33.58K