Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Basseterre
- Region
- Americas, Caribbean
- Population
- 46,922 (2025)
- Area
- 261 km²
- Currency
- Eastern Caribbean dollar (XCD)
- Languages
- English
- Calling code
- +1-869
- Internet domain
- .kn
- ISO codes
- KN, KNA, 659
- Time zone
- UTC-4:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- KN#### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Saint Kitts and Nevis covers about 261 square kilometres. By area it ranks 219th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Cayman Islands and a little larger than Niue. It has no land border with any other country. Its centre lies at about 17° north, 63° west, in the northern hemisphere.
People
About 46,922 people live in Saint Kitts and Nevis (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 211th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure. On average there are 180 people to each square kilometre. About 32 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 72 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: English. A person from Saint Kitts and Nevis is called Kittitian or Nevisian.
Money and economy
The currency is the Eastern Caribbean dollar (code XCD, symbol $). It is also the main currency of Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 1.18 billion (2025), which is about US$ 25,223 for each person (2025).
Time
Saint Kitts and Nevis uses one time zone, UTC-4:00 (America/St Kitts). 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 |
|---|---|
| Basseterre | 12,920 |
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 Caribbean
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Caribbean Netherlands, Cayman Islands. 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.