South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- GS
- ISO alpha-3
- SGS
- ISO numeric
- 239
- FIPS 10-4
- SX
- GeoNames ID
- 3474415
Key facts
- Capital
- Grytviken
- Area
- 3,903 km²
- Population
- 30
- Currency
- Pound (GBP)
- Top-level domain
- .gs
- Official languages
- en
Continent
- Name
- Antarctica
- Code
- AN
- In this dataset
- 5 countries
Location
- Min latitude
- -59.47275155999995
- Min longitude
- -38.08702551999994
- Max latitude
- -53.9724260399999
- Max longitude
- -26.23932857999995
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/GS?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 3903,
"capital": "Grytviken",
"continent_code": "AN",
"currency_code": "GBP",
"iso3_code": "SGS",
"iso_code": "GS",
"name": "South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands",
"population": 30
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/GS/regions/v1/cities?country=GS/v1/postal-codes?country=GS/v1/timezones?country=GS
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- جورجيا الجنوبية وجزر ساندويتش الجنوبية
- Chinese
- 南乔治亚和南桑威奇群岛
- English
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- French
- Géorgie du Sud-et-les îles Sandwich du Sud
- German
- Südgeorgien und die Südlichen Sandwichinseln
- Hindi
- दक्षिण जॉर्जिया और दक्षिण सैंडविच द्वीपसमूह
- Italian
- Georgia del Sud e Sandwich australi
- Japanese
- サウスジョージア・サウスサンドウィッチ諸島
- Korean
- 사우스조지아 사우스샌드위치 제도
- Portuguese
- Ilhas Geórgia do Sul e Sandwich do Sul
- Russian
- Южная Георгия и Южные Сандвичевы о-ва
- Spanish
- Islas Georgia del Sur y Sandwich del Sur
- Total language variants
- 111
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Atlantic/South_Georgia | UTC-02:00 | UTC-02:00 |
Postal code format
- Format
- SIQQ 1ZZ
- Pattern
SIQQ 1ZZ
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| King Edward Point | 22 |
| Bird Research Station | 10 |
| Grytviken | 2 |
| Stromness | 0 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 4
- First-level regions
- 0
- Postal codes
- 1
- Name languages
- 111
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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