Christmas Island

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Codes and identifiers

ISO alpha-2
CX
ISO alpha-3
CXR
ISO numeric
162
FIPS 10-4
KT
GeoNames ID
2078138

Key facts

Capital
Flying Fish Cove
Area
135 km²
Population
1,500
Currency
Dollar (AUD)
Calling code
+61
Top-level domain
.cx
Official languages
en,zh,ms-CX

Continent

Name
Oceania
Code
OC
In this dataset
28 countries

Oceania in the country atlas

The API call behind this page

Request

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  "https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/CX?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"

Response

{
  "data": {
    "area_sq_km": 135,
    "capital": "Flying Fish Cove",
    "continent_code": "OC",
    "currency_code": "AUD",
    "iso3_code": "CXR",
    "iso_code": "CX",
    "name": "Christmas Island",
    "population": 1500
  }
}

Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.

Other endpoints for this country

  • /v1/countries/CX/regions
  • /v1/cities?country=CX
  • /v1/postal-codes?country=CX
  • /v1/timezones?country=CX
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Name in other languages

Arabic
جزيرة كريسماس
Chinese
圣诞岛
English
Christmas Island
French
Île Christmas
German
Weihnachtsinsel
Hindi
क्रिसमस द्वीप
Italian
Isola Christmas
Japanese
クリスマス島
Korean
크리스마스섬
Portuguese
Ilha Christmas
Russian
о-в Рождества
Spanish
Isla de Navidad
Total language variants
111

The API returns any of them with ?lang=.

Time zones

IANA ID UTC offset DST offset
Indian/Christmas UTC+07:00 UTC+07:00

Postal code format

Format
####
Pattern
^(\d{4})$

Largest cities

City Population
Flying Fish Cove 500
Drumsite 0
Poon Saan 0
Settlement 0
Silver City 0
South Point 0
Waterfall 0

Coverage in this dataset

Cities
7
First-level regions
0
Postal codes
1
Name languages
111
Boundary polygon
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