Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Flying Fish Cove
- Region
- Oceania, Australia and New Zealand
- Population
- 1,500
- Area
- 135 km²
- Currency
- Australian dollar (AUD)
- Languages
- English, Chinese, Malay (macrolanguage)
- Calling code
- +61
- Internet domain
- .cx
- ISO codes
- CX, CXR, 162
- Time zone
- UTC+7:00
- United Nations
- Not a member
- Postal code pattern
- #### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Christmas Island covers about 135 square kilometres. By area it ranks 228th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than British Virgin Islands and a little larger than Jersey. It has no land border with any other country. Its centre lies at about 10° south, 106° east, in the southern hemisphere.
People
About 1,500 people live in Christmas Island (GeoNames figure, year not stated). That makes it the 240th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure. On average there are 11 people to each square kilometre. Languages listed for it: English, Chinese, Malay (macrolanguage). A person from Christmas Island is called Christmas Islander.
Money and economy
The currency is the Australian dollar (code AUD, symbol $). It is also the main currency of Australia, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Kiribati, Nauru, Norfolk Island, Tuvalu.
Time
Christmas Island uses one time zone, UTC+7:00 (Indian/Christmas). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Flying Fish Cove | 1,355 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Australia and New Zealand
Australia, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, New Zealand, Norfolk Island. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.