Map of Saint Lucia

Saint Lucia is located in North America. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 13.9° N, 61.0° 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 Lucia is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

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

Saint Lucia covers about 616 km² (238 sq mi). That makes it the 180th-largest country in the world by area and the 18th-largest in North America, larger by area than 5 of the continent’s 23 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 184,100, the 179th-largest in the world and the 18th-largest in North America, accounting for about 0.0% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Saint Lucia has an average population density of about 299 people per km². Among the 23 countries of North America it stands 18th by population and 18th by area.

The seat of government is Castries, 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 Lucia carries the ISO country codes LC and LCA, dials on the international calling code +1758 and uses the .lc internet domain.

Saint Lucia 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 13.9° N, 61.0° W places it about 1,541 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres, within the wider region of North America.

The interactive map above is centred on 13.9° N, 61.0° W and opens at zoom level 9, framing Saint Lucia 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 Castries. 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 Lucia lies about 1,541 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 Lucia 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 +1758 and websites commonly use the .lc internet domain.

In short, Saint Lucia is an island nation in North America, with no land borders. Its capital is Castries. Saint Lucia has a population of about 184,100 and covers around 616 km² (238 sq mi), ranking it 179th in the world by population and 180th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Saint Lucia.

The flag of Saint Lucia has a light blue field, at the center of which are two triangles which share a common base — a small golden-yellow isosceles triangle superimposed on a large white-edged black isosceles triangle.

The flag of Saint Lucia 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.