Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 🇻🇨

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a country in North America with a population of 103,948. Its capital is Kingstown. The official currency is XCD, and the main languages are English.

Quick facts

Capital: Kingstown
Continent: North America
Population: 103,948
Area: 389 km²
Density: 267 people per km²
Currency: XCD
Languages: English
ISO code: VC

Where Saint Vincent and the Grenadines sits

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 🇻🇨 is one of 23 countries in North America, with its capital at Kingstown. It covers 389 square kilometres — 186th in the world — and is home to about 103,948 people, 185th globally.

The countries it shares a continent with include United States, Mexico, Canada, Guatemala and Haiti. If you are learning geography region by region — which works far better than alphabetically, because memory for places is spatial — those are the ones to learn alongside it.

How Saint Vincent and the Grenadines compares

Raw figures are hard to hold on their own, so it helps to anchor them. In population, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines sits closest to Tonga and Seychelles. In land area, its nearest counterparts are Barbados and Grenada.

At 267 people per square kilometre it is about 4.5 times the world average of 59.4. It ranks higher by population than by area, so it is more crowded than its size alone suggests.

English is an official language in 58 countries here, among them Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas and Barbados, and 53 others. The XCD is shared with 5 other countries, including Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica and Grenada, and 2 others.

To see Saint Vincent and the Grenadines next to every other country, sort the country rankings by population, area or density; its currency and languages are listed alongside every other country's in world currencies and world languages.

How to remember Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Kingstown is on the main island, Saint Vincent, and is nicknamed the 'City of Arches'. Don't mix it up with Kingston, the capital of Jamaica: Saint Vincent's capital has the extra 'town'. On the flag, the three diamonds spell a V for Vincent.

The flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: blue, gold and green

🇻🇨 The flag is three vertical stripes of blue, gold (twice as wide) and green, with three green diamonds in the gold stripe arranged as a V. The V of diamonds stands for Vincent, and the diamonds for the islands as 'the Gems of the Antilles'. Blue stands for the tropical sky and sea, gold for the sand and green for the plants.

Region and neighbours

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island country in the eastern Caribbean, in the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, between Saint Lucia to the north and Grenada to the south. As an island country it has no land neighbours.

Three facts about Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

The country is made up of 32 islands and cays, nine of them inhabited.
The La Soufrière volcano, Saint Vincent's highest peak at 1,234 m, erupted in April 2021.
Kingstown's botanical garden, started in 1765, is one of the oldest in the Western Hemisphere.

Sources: Wikipedia: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Wikipedia: Flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Wikipedia: Kingstown, CIA World Factbook.

Quiz yourself on Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

North American capitals quiz — match Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to Kingstown
North American flags quiz — spot the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines flag among its neighbours
Island nations quiz — Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island country

Quizzes that include Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Three angles are worth covering for any country — where it is, what its flag looks like, and what its capital is. For Saint Vincent and the Grenadines those are:

North America map quiz — place it on a blank map
North America flags quiz — identify its flag among its neighbours
North America capitals quiz — match it to Kingstown
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines capital quiz — five quick questions starting with Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Daily Map Challenge — five countries to find on a blank world map, the same five for everyone each day

Doing all three for one continent before moving on is far more efficient than learning flags globally, then capitals globally, then the map.

Nearby countries

Antigua and Barbuda 🇦🇬 — capital Saint John's
Bahamas 🇧🇸 — capital Nassau
Barbados 🇧🇧 — capital Bridgetown
Belize 🇧🇿 — capital Belmopan
Canada 🇨🇦 — capital Ottawa
Costa Rica 🇨🇷 — capital San José
Cuba 🇨🇺 — capital Havana
Dominica 🇩🇲 — capital Roseau
Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 — capital Santo Domingo
El Salvador 🇸🇻 — capital San Salvador
Grenada 🇬🇩 — capital Saint George's
Guatemala 🇬🇹 — capital Guatemala City

Frequently asked questions

What are the colours of the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines flag?

The flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is three vertical stripes of blue, gold (twice as wide) and green, with three green diamonds in the gold stripe arranged as a V. The V of diamonds stands for Vincent, and the diamonds for the islands as 'the Gems of the Antilles'. Blue stands for the tropical sky and sea, gold for the sand and green for the plants.

Which countries border Saint Vincent and the Grenadines?

None. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island country in the eastern Caribbean, in the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, between Saint Lucia to the north and Grenada to the south, so it has no land borders with other countries.