Area: 212.2 sq km
Population: 173 500 inhab. (estimate 2020)
Density: 817.63 inhab./sq km
Coordinates: lat. 49° N; long. 2° W
Capital: Saint Helier (capital) 37 540 inhab. (2020); ; Saint Peter Port/Saint-Pierre-Port (capital) 18 958 inhab. (2019);
Channel Islands

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Not technically a part of the United Kingdom, they are British Crown Dependencies with their own legislatures. Having never belonged to the European Union, their special tax laws have turned them into thriving financial centres.
Geography.
The Channel Islands are an archipelago in the English Channel lying between the French peninsulas of Cotentin to the east and Brittany to the south-west.
They include the islands of Jersey, Guernsey (Guernesey), Alderney (Aurigny), Sark (Sercq), Herm and other small islands and rocks, as well as Les Minquiers.
Administrative division
Island | AREA | INHABITANTS | YEAR |
---|---|---|---|
Alderney/Aurign | 8$ sq km | 2 030 inhab. | 2020 |
Brechou | 0.3 sq km | - | - |
DESCRIPTION | VALUE | UNITS | YEAR |
---|---|---|---|
Saint Helier | 37 540 | inhab. | 2020 |
Saint Peter Port/Saint-Pierre-Port | 18 958 | inhab. | 2019 |
Population
DESCRIPTION | VALUE | UNITS | YEAR |
---|---|---|---|
Birth rate | 9.3 | ‰ | 2017 |
Death rate | 9$ | ‰ | 2017 |
DESCRIPTION |
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English (official) |
French (official) |
Forests-Livestock-Fishing
DESCRIPTION | VALUE | UNITS | YEAR |
---|---|---|---|
crustaceans and molluscs | 4 076.199 | t | 2019 |
marine fishes | 352 | t | 2019 |
Communications
DESCRIPTION | VALUE | UNITS | YEAR |
---|---|---|---|
Merchant fleet | 3$ | units | 2021 |
Merchant fleet, gross tonnage | 355 | t | 2021 |
Social and welfare
DESCRIPTION | VALUE | UNITS | YEAR |
---|---|---|---|
Access to electricity | 100 | % | 2019 |
Access to improved drinking-water source | 94.15 | % | 2017 |