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Guernsey: map and facts

Guernsey is in Northern Europe. It has 64,017 people (2023). It covers 78 km². That is about 821 people per km². Its highest point is Le Moulin, at 114 m.

Guernsey and the land around it. The triangle marks its highest point, Le Moulin; the circle marks its capital, Saint Peter Port. Boundaries follow India’s official position.

Facts

Population: 64,017 (2023, UN World Population Prospects)
Area: 78 km² (CIA World Factbook (archived)). This figure covers a different area from the one this map shows: as drawn, about 74 km².
Capital: Saint Peter Port
Highest point: Le Moulin, 114 m (Wikidata)

Mountains and landscapes

Its highest peaks:

Le Moulin: 114 m (its highest point)

Land

Land cover seen from satellites (NASA MODIS, 2024): savanna 51.1%, wetland 16.8%, towns and cities 13.7%, farmland with natural plants 11.5%, water 4.6%, evergreen broadleaf forest 1.5%.

Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): plains 100%.

Neighbours

Guernsey has no land borders on this map.

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Sources

India’s boundaries are drawn according to India’s official position, simplified for small-scale maps (data: Natural Earth, India view). Each figure shows its year and source; some are rounded. Data release 2026.2.

Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com), public domain. Boundaries follow India's official position (Natural Earth's India point of view). Terms
GMTED2010 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (Danielson and Gesch 2011, USGS Open-File Report 2011-1073). Terms
Friedl, M., Sulla-Menashe, D. (2022). MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. doi:10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.061. Terms
United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2024). World Population Prospects 2024. CC BY 3.0 IGO. Terms
Wikidata (CC0): names, capitals, peak heights and river lengths, checked by Make Me Smarter. Terms
Landforms worked out by Make Me Smarter from GMTED2010.
Some figures corrected by Make Me Smarter from published references: Australian Bureau of Statistics; Atlas of Canada; CIA World Factbook (archived); FAO; FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025; FSM Statistics; GeoNames; Gilbertson & Gilbertson's GPS surveys of national high points; INEGI (Mexico); Peaklist.org; PeakVisor; Government of the Pitcairn Islands; Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program; Statistics Finland; UN Demographic Yearbook; UN World Population Prospects 2024; Wikidata; Wikipedia.

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