Back St. Lucia Afrikaans St. Lucia ALS ሰይንት ሉሻ Amharic Saint Lucia AMI Santa Lucia (Antillas) AN Sancte Lucia ANG सेंट लूसिया ANP سانت لوسيا Arabic سانط لوسيا ARY سانت لوسيا ARZ

Saint Lucia

This article is about the country. For the person who this country is named after, see Saint Lucy.
Saint Lucia
Coat of arms of Saint Lucia
Coat of arms
Motto: "The Land, The People, The Light"
Anthem: Sons and Daughters of Saint Lucia
Location of Saint Lucia
Capital
and largest city
Castries
Official languagesEnglish[1][2]
Vernacular
languages		Saint Lucian French Creole[1][2]
Ethnic groups
Demonym(s)Saint Lucian
GovernmentParliamentary democracy under constitutional monarchy
• Monarch
Charles III
Cyril Errol Charles
Philip J. Pierre
LegislatureParliament
• Upper house
Senate
• Lower house
House of Assembly
Independence
• from the United Kingdom
22 February 1979
Area
• Total
617 km2 (238 sq mi) (191st)
• Water (%)
1.6
Population
• 2021 estimate
Neutral increase 184,401 (177th)
• 2010 census
165,595
• Density
299.4/km2 (775.4/sq mi) (29th)
GDP (PPP)2020 estimate
• Total
Decrease $2.480 billion[3]
• Per capita
Decrease $13,708[3]
GDP (nominal)2020 estimate
• Total
Decrease $1.77 billion[3]
• Per capita
Decrease $9,780[3]
Gini (2016)51.2[4]
high
HDI (2019)Increase 0.759[5]
high · 86th
CurrencyEast Caribbean dollar (XCD)
Time zoneUTC−4
Driving sideleft
Calling code+1 758
ISO 3166 codeLC
Internet TLD.lc
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Saint Lucia is a tropical island country in the eastern Caribbean Sea. It is a part of the Lesser Antilles island group, and it is north of the islands of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and south of Martinique. As of 2010 there are about 174,000 people.

The official language is English.[1][2] Saint Lucian Creole French (Kwéyòl), which is a French-based Creole is spoken by 95% of the people. About 70% of the people are Roman Catholic.

Two Nobel laureates, Arthur Lewis, an economist, and Derek Walcott, a poet and playwright, have come from the island.

Saint Lucia is a full and participating member of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and La Francophonie.

Saint Lucia is the only country in the world to be named after a woman, Saint Lucy.

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "About St. Lucia". Castries, St. Lucia: St. Lucis Tourist Board. Archived from the original on 2013-06-05. Retrieved 2011-11-11. The official language spoken in Saint Lucia is English although many Saint Lucians also speak a French dialect, Creole (Kwéyòl).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs (U.S. Department of State) (August 12, 2011). "Background Note: Saint Lucia". United States Department of State. Retrieved 2011-11-11. Languages: English (official); a French patois is common throughout the country.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "St. Lucia". International Monetary Fund. 2016.
  4. ↑ "Gini Index coefficient". CIA World Factbook. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  5. ↑ Human Development Report 2020 The Next Frontier: Human Development and the Anthropocene (PDF). United Nations Development Programme. 15 December 2020. pp. 343–346. ISBN 978-92-1-126442-5. Retrieved 16 December 2020.

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