Montserrat 🇲🇸

Montserrat sits in the Caribbean and is listed as a dependency rather than an independent state. The short and official forms of the name are the same. The capital is Plymouth.

Its recorded population is just 4,400, among the smallest anywhere. Measured only against its own subregion, it is 24th of 28 in size and 28th in population.

Its territory runs to 102 km², which ranks it 230th of the 250 countries and territories in this dataset — just behind Jersey and just ahead of Anguilla. For scale, it is about two thirds the size of Liechtenstein.

Montserrat does not hold a United Nations seat of its own. It is administered as a dependency or overseas territory rather than as a sovereign state, which is why it sits outside the 193 member states while still appearing among the 250 entries on this site.

Not holding a UN seat is not the same as having no self-government, and the administrative details make that clear. Montserrat has 5 of the five markers of separate administration tracked on this page — its own currency, its own dialling code, its own internet domain, its own iso codes and a designated capital. In day-to-day terms it is run substantially as its own jurisdiction.

• Its own currencyXCD
• Its own dialling code+1664
• Its own internet domain.ms
• Its own ISO codesms / MSR
• A designated capitalPlymouth

Plotted on a globe it falls at 16.8° north, 62.2° west, which puts it in the northern hemisphere, roughly 1,865 km from the equator, in what geographers would call tropical latitudes.

Follow that same latitude east or west and you reach Sudan, Chad and Niger — places that share its distance from the equator but little else.

It shares no land border with anyone. That puts it among the 85 entries of 250 here with no land neighbours, a group made up mostly of islands and island groups.

Montserrat has no land border with any country, which changes what "nearby" means. Measured centre to centre in a straight line, the closest other entry on this site is Antigua and Barbuda, roughly 55 km away. These are approximate distances between representative points, not the shortest crossing between two shorelines, so treat them as a sense of scale rather than a sailing chart.

No land border also means no land crossing: everything and everyone arrives by sea or by air. That single fact drives a lot of what follows on this page, from how goods reach the shops to why Montserrat's dialling code and internet domain are worth knowing before you travel.

Density comes out at around 43 people per square kilometre, which makes it less crowded than the typical entry on this list. Half the entries in this dataset fall below roughly 90 per square kilometre.

English is the only official language. English is one of the widely shared official languages here, listed by 90 other entries including American Samoa, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda and Australia.

The demonym is Montserratian, so residents are Montserratians.

Inside the Americas it places 54th of 56 by population, and it accounts for under 1% of everyone living in the Caribbean.

Montserrat does not have the Eastern Caribbean dollar to itself. It is one of 8 entries on this site that use the currency, whose code is XCD, and the others include listed below. A shared currency usually points at something real — a monetary union, a currency board, a former colonial administration, or a small economy pegging itself to a large neighbour's money — and it means a price quoted in XCD travels further than you might expect.

Language reaches wider still. English is listed for 91 entries here, Montserrat among them, so a visitor who speaks it can be understood across a large part of the map. Shared language tends to outlive the empires, trade routes and migrations that spread it, which is why the linguistic map and the political one rarely line up.

Within Caribbean, Montserrat is the least populous of the 28 entries listed here, and 24th by area. Saint Barthélemy is the next step up. Being the smallest of a group is not the same as being small in absolute terms — the subregional context is what gives the figure meaning.

Haiti is the largest of the group by population, and every entry in Caribbean has its own page here if you want to work through the whole neighbourhood rather than one country at a time.

• 🇧🇱 Saint Barthélemy
• 🇭🇹 Haiti

The currency is the Eastern Caribbean dollar ($, XCD). That is a shared currency: 7 other entries use it, including Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada and Saint Kitts and Nevis.

If a quiz asks for the capital of Montserrat, the answer is Plymouth.

Its internet country code is .ms. Calls from overseas start with +1664. In ISO terms it is ms in two letters and MSR in three.

On the UN list it does not appear as a member. The dataset does not record which state administers it, so this page does not guess. Of the 250 entries here, 57 are territories or observers rather than member states.