Map of Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Kitts and Nevis is located in North America. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 17.3° N, 62.8° W. It is an island nation and shares no land borders with any other country, so every approach to it is made by sea or by air. Within North America, a continent of 23 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, Saint Kitts and Nevis is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Saint Kitts and Nevis is an island state with no land borders. The nearest countries are reached across open water rather than over a shared frontier.

Saint Kitts and Nevis covers about 261 km² (101 sq mi). That makes it the 190th-largest country in the world by area and the smallest country in North America by area.

It is home to a population of roughly 51,320, the 189th-largest in the world and the 23rd-largest in North America, accounting for about 0.0% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Saint Kitts and Nevis has an average population density of about 197 people per km². Among the 23 countries of North America it stands 23rd by population and 23rd by area.

The seat of government is Basseterre, and the official currency is the Eastern Caribbean dollar (XCD, $), and the main official language is English. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC-04:00.

Saint Kitts and Nevis carries the ISO country codes KN and KNA, dials on the international calling code +1869 and uses the .kn internet domain.

Saint Kitts and Nevis has no land neighbours. It is an island nation, so the countries nearest to it are reached across open water rather than over a shared border. Its position at 17.3° N, 62.8° W places it about 1,924 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres, within the wider region of North America.

The interactive map above is centred on 17.3° N, 62.8° W and opens at zoom level 10, framing Saint Kitts and Nevis within North America. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Basseterre. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Saint Kitts and Nevis lies about 1,924 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres of the globe. As an island, its full extent is best seen by zooming out to take in the surrounding sea.

Saint Kitts and Nevis keeps a single standard time zone, UTC-04:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit -04:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Eastern Caribbean dollar (XCD, $).

The official language is English, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the left-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +1869 and websites commonly use the .kn internet domain.

In short, Saint Kitts and Nevis is an island nation in North America, with no land borders. Its capital is Basseterre. Saint Kitts and Nevis has a population of about 51,320 and covers around 261 km² (101 sq mi), ranking it 189th in the world by population and 190th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Saint Kitts and Nevis.

The flag of Saint Kitts and Nevis features two large five-pointed white stars within a yellow-edged black diagonal band that extends from the lower hoist-side corner to the upper fly-side corner of the field. Above and beneath this band are a green and red triangle respectively.

The flag of Saint Kitts and Nevis is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.