Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Victoria
- Region
- Africa, Eastern Africa
- Population
- 122,730 (2025)
- Area
- 455 km²
- Currency
- Seychellois rupee (SCR)
- Languages
- English, French
- Calling code
- +248
- Internet domain
- .sc
- ISO codes
- SC, SYC, 690
- Time zone
- UTC+4:00
- United Nations
- Member state
Land and position
The Seychelles covers about 455 square kilometres. By area it ranks 204th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Palau and a little larger than Curaçao. It has no land border with any other country. Its centre lies at about 5° south, 56° east, in the southern hemisphere.
People
About 122,730 people live in the Seychelles (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 194th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure. On average there are 270 people to each square kilometre. About 45 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 76 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: English, French. A person from the Seychelles is called Seychellois.
Money and economy
The currency is the Seychellois rupee (code SCR, symbol ₨). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 2.39 billion (2025), which is about US$ 19,449 for each person (2025).
Time
The Seychelles uses one time zone, UTC+4:00 (Indian/Mahe). 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 |
|---|---|
| Victoria | 22,881 |
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 Eastern Africa
British Indian Ocean Territory, Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar. 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.