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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: map, flag, capital and key facts

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a country in North America, in Central America and the Caribbean, with about 100,000 people (2025) and an area of 390 square kilometres. Its capital is Kingstown, and it has no land borders.

By Team Geography Last reviewed

Flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Map showing where the country sits among its neighbours
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in solid, land neighbours outlined, capital marked.

Key facts about Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

CapitalKingstown
ContinentNorth America
RegionCentral America and the Caribbean
Population99,924 2025, World Bank. 183rd of 195.
Area390 km² (151 sq mi) World Bank, surface area. 184th largest of 195.
Population density256 people per km²
Land neighboursNone. It has no land borders with another country.
UN statusMember state
Capital coordinates13.15° N, 61.21° W Kingstown, Natural Earth.

No land borders

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines shares no land border with another country. Its nearest neighbours are across the sea, as the map above shows.

From the Geography app

The app teaches each country through short hand written lenses: PLACE for physical geography, STORY for history and identity, NOW for the news, and THREAD for the ties between countries. Here is one of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines's 5, in full.

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A volcanic island trailing thirty-two smaller ones

The country is two landscapes under one flag. Saint Vincent is steep, wet and volcanic, rising to La Soufrière at 1,235 meters above black sand beaches. South of it the Grenadines run some sixty kilometers: thirty-two low, dry islands and cays, most of them empty, ringed by reef and sheltered anchorages that made the chain one of the world's charter yachting grounds. Bequia lies closest, Baliceaux just behind it, Union Island and the Tobago Cays farthest south.

More on Baliceaux

Baliceaux is a bare islet of about a square kilometer with no permanent population. In 1797, after the second of two wars against British forces, roughly five thousand Garifuna, the Afro-Indigenous people of Saint Vincent, were held there before deportation to the Bay Islands off Honduras. Perhaps half died on the island. Their descendants now number in the hundreds of thousands across Central America.

4 more lenses on Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the app

  • STORY Four whales a year, by hand harpoon
  • NOW An eruption and a hurricane, three years apart
  • NOW The one that never sold its passport
  • THREAD How a trade ruling emptied the banana fields

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Common questions

What is the capital of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines?
The capital of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is Kingstown. Kingstown lies at about 13.1 degrees north and 61.2 degrees west. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is in North America, in the region often called Central America and the Caribbean.
What is the population of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines?
About 100,000 people live in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, according to the World Bank figures for 2025. That makes it the 183rd most populous of the 195 countries. With an area of 390 square kilometres, that is about 256 people per square kilometre.
What countries border Saint Vincent and the Grenadines?
None. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has no land borders with any other country. It is surrounded by sea, so every neighbour of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is across the water. It lies in North America, in the region often called Central America and the Caribbean.
How big is Saint Vincent and the Grenadines?
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines covers 390 square kilometres, or about 151 square miles. That makes it the 184th largest of the 195 countries. The figure is total surface area, which includes inland water such as lakes and rivers. Its population of about 100,000 gives a density of 256 people per square kilometre.

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