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REGIONAL CHRONICLE · LIVING HERITAGE
Micoud
Explore this region’s place in the atlas and its connection to Saint Lucia.
Photo: David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada / Wikimedia Commons (resized) Image licenceCC BY 2.0Photograph by David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada / Wikimedia Commons (resized). Display crop may differ from the original.
AT A GLANCE
Micoud in facts
- TypeQuarter
- Population16,2842010
- Area112 km²
- CountrySaint Lucia
All geographic & statistical details (14)
- Density
- 145 people per km²
- World region
- Americas · Latin America and the Caribbean · Caribbean
- Share of Saint Lucia’s area
- 18.2% of Saint Lucia
- Share of Saint Lucia’s people
- 9.0% of Saint Lucia
- Official language
- English
- National anthem
- "God Save the King" · unknown
- Currency
- Eastern Caribbean dollar
- Calling code
- +1758
- Drives on the
- left
- ISO 3166-2 code
- LC-08
- Time zone
- UTC-4
- Location
- 13.8°N, 60.9°W
- Distance from Castries
- 20 km (straight line)
- Neighbouring regions
- 4
Shares borders with 4 regions
- CastriesQuarter · 65,656 people
- DenneryQuarter · 12,767 people
- SoufrièreDistrict · 7,657 people
- Vieux-FortDistrict · 14,754 people
Neighbours from Wikidata (land borders and some sea borders; only places with a page here).
Facts: Wikidata Q1240193, retrieved 1 November 2026. Figures can change; check the source for the latest. Location, time zone and distances are worked out by The Landlore from Wikidata coordinates and the IANA time zone database.
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Directory: UN M49 countries or areas, with 193 UN members, 2 observers and 53 other areas. Subdivisions: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0; filtered to this catalogue. Flags/symbols: flag-icons (MIT). Snapshot: 28 October 2026. Geographic groups are statistical. Associated-country links describe the cited relationship and do not settle sovereignty claims.
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