Saint Helena
Names and codes: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0 · Boundary: Natural Earth, public domain · Refresh date not recorded · Sources and licenses
Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- SH
- ISO alpha-3
- SHN
- ISO numeric
- 654
- FIPS 10-4
- SH
- GeoNames ID
- 3370751
Key facts
- Capital
- Jamestown
- Area
- 410 km²
- Population
- 7,460
- Currency
- Pound (SHP)
- Calling code
- +290
- Top-level domain
- .sh
- Official languages
- en-SH
Continent
- Name
- Africa
- Code
- AF
- In this dataset
- 58 countries
Location
- Min latitude
- -40.39788176899992
- Min longitude
- -14.417713995999918
- Max latitude
- -7.877862237999921
- Max longitude
- -5.650380011999914
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/SH?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 410,
"capital": "Jamestown",
"continent_code": "AF",
"currency_code": "SHP",
"iso3_code": "SHN",
"iso_code": "SH",
"name": "Saint Helena",
"population": 7460
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/SH/regions/v1/cities?country=SH/v1/postal-codes?country=SH/v1/timezones?country=SH
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- سانت هيلينا
- Chinese
- 圣赫勒拿
- English
- St. Helena
- French
- Sainte-Hélène, Ascension et Tristan da Cunha
- German
- St. Helena, Ascension und Tristan da Cunha
- Hindi
- सेंट हेलेना
- Italian
- Sant'Elena, Ascensione e Tristan da Cunha
- Japanese
- セントヘレナ
- Korean
- 세인트헬레나
- Portuguese
- Santa Helena
- Russian
- о-в Св. Елены
- Spanish
- Santa Elena, Ascensión y Tristán de Acuña
- Total language variants
- 122
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Atlantic/St_Helena | UTC+00:00 | UTC+00:00 |
Postal code format
- Format
- STHL 1ZZ
- Pattern
^(STHL1ZZ)$
First-level administrative regions
- Saint Helena
- Ascension
- Tristan da Cunha
3 of 3 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Georgetown | 5,012 |
| Edinburgh of the Seven Seas | 2,860 |
| Half Tree Hollow | 1,034 |
| St. Paul's | 928 |
| Longwood | 765 |
| Jamestown | 637 |
| Alarm Forest | 394 |
| Levelwood | 342 |
| Cat Hill US Military Base | 210 |
| Sandy Bay | 177 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 20
- First-level regions
- 3
- Postal codes
- 0
- Name languages
- 122
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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