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Turks and Caicos Islands: map and facts

The Turks and Caicos Islands is in the Caribbean. It has 46,855 people (2025). It covers 948 km². That is about 49 people per km². Its highest point is Blue Hills, at 49 m.

The Turks and Caicos Islands and the land around it. The triangle marks its highest point, Blue Hills; the circle marks its capital, Cockburn Town. Boundaries follow India’s official position.

Facts

Population: 46,855 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 948 km² (2024, World Bank). This figure covers a different area from the one this map shows: as drawn, about 447 km².
Capital: Cockburn Town
Highest point: Blue Hills, 49 m (Wikidata)
Forest: 11.1% of the land (2024, World Bank)

Mountains and landscapes

Its highest peaks:

Blue Hills: 49 m (its highest point)

Land

Land cover seen from satellites (NASA MODIS, 2024): grassland 32.9%, wetland 19.5%, water 17.5%, evergreen broadleaf forest 14.3%, savanna 7.3%, wooded savanna 3.7%.

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

Forests covered 11.1% of its land in 2024, the same as in 1990 (World Bank).

Neighbours

The Turks and Caicos Islands 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
The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL): UN Population Division, national statistical offices (2025 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Surface area (AG.SRF.TOTL.K2): FAO (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Terms
The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Forest area (% of land area) (AG.LND.FRST.ZS): FAO, FAOSTAT (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. 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.

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