Guernsey
The Bailiwick of Guernsey is a group of islands in the English Channel, part of the Channel Islands. Guernsey is the main island, some 50 miles west of the Cotentin Peninsula in France.
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Guernsey
- Type: Country with 65,200 residents
- Description: one of the British Crown Dependencies in the Channel Islands
- Also known as: “Baia de Guernsey”, “Bailia del Guernsey”, “Bailía del Guernsey”, “Bailiado de guernesei”, “Bailiado de Guernsey”, “Bailiazgo de Guernsey”, “Bailiwick av Guernsey”, “Bailiwick of Guernsey”, “Bailiwick ta’ Guernsey”, “bailliage de Guernesey”, “Baliwat Guernsey”, “Baljuwschap Guernsey”, “Baljuwschap van Guernsey”, “Beiliaeth Ynys y Garn”, “Categoria:Guernsey”, “Dgernesy”, “Dgèrnésy”, “Garnsee”, “GB-GSY”, “GBG”, “Gērnsi”, “Gernzi”, “gg”, “GG”, “GGY”, “Giernési”, “Great Britain Guernsey”, “Guernesei”, “Gùernesey”, “Guernesi”, “Guérnsei”, “Guernsej”, “Guernsey Bailiwick”, “Guernsey Muhafızlığı”, “Guernseyko Bailegoa”, “Gvernsejo”, “Gvernsey”, “Gvernzi”, “Gyernëzi”, “Hạt khâm sai Guernsey”, “Insulele Guernsey”, “Lisia”, “Ön Guernsey”, “Rychtářství Guernsey”, “Sarmia”, “Vogtei Guernesey”, “Vogtei Guernsey”, “Vogtei von Guernsey”, “Wyspa Guernsey”, “XA-GG”, “Βαϊλάτο του Γκέρνσεϊ”, “Γκένσεϊ”, “Γκέρνσεϊ”, “Γκέρνσεϋ”, “Бейлвик Гернси”, “Бејливик Гернси”, “Бејлифство Гернзи”, “Гернсей”, “Ґернсі”, “Сарния”, “בייליוויק גרנזי”, “גרנסי”, “بيليويك غويرنسي”, “جزيرة جرنزي”, “جزيرة جيرنزي”, “جزيرة غيرنزي”, “غيرنسى”, “گرنسی”, “गुएर्नसी”, “ग्युर्नझी”, “बैलिविक ऑफ़ ग्युएमसे”, “கேர்ன்சி”, “ガーンジー島”, “ガンジー島”, “根息岛”, “根息行政區”, “根西行政区”, “格恩西岛”, “格恩西島”, and “耿西岛”
- Languages: English and Jèrriais
- Categories: Crown Dependencies, bailiwick, and locality
- Location: Channel Islands, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude of center
49.4566° or 49° 27′ 24″ north
Longitude of center
-2.5822° or 2° 34′ 56″ west
Population
65,200
Area
78 km² (30 miles²)
Elevation
76 metres (249 feet)
Capital
St Peter Port
Currency
Pound (GBP)
Phone code
+44-1481
Internet domain
.gg
UN/LOCODE
GG GCI
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zulu—“Guernsey” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Guernsey”
- Afrikaans: “Guernsey”
- Albanian: “Gernsej”
- Albanian: “Guernsey”
- Amharic: “ገርንዚ”
- Amharic: “ጉርነሲ”
- Angika: “गुएनर्से”
- Arabic: “غيرنزي”
- Aragonese: “Guernési”
- Armenian: “Գերնսի”
- Arpitan: “Guèrnesê”
- Arpitan: “Guèrneseyi”
- Assamese: “গোৰেনচি”
- Asturian: “Guérnesei”
- Azerbaijani: “Gernsi”
- Basque: “Guernesey”
- Bavarian: “Guernsey”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Гернсі”
- Belarusian: “Гернсі”
- Bengali: “গার্নসি”
- Bengali: “গুয়ার্নসি”
- Betawi: “Gèrensi”
- Bhojpuri: “बालिविक ऑफ गुएर्नसी”
- Bishnupriya: “গুৱেরেনসি”
- Bosnian: “Guernsey”
- Breton: “Gwernenez”
- Bulgarian: “Гърнзи”
- Bulgarian: “Гърнси”
- Burmese: “ဂွန်းဇီ”
- Catalan: “Guernsey”
- Chechen: “Гернси”
- Cherokee: “ᎬᏂᏏ”
- Chinese: “根西”
- Chinese: “根西岛”
- Chinese: “根西島”
- Chinese: “根西行政區”
- Cornish: “Gernsi”
- Cornish: “Gwernenys”
- Crimean Tatar: “Gernsi”
- Croatian: “Bailiwick Guernsey”
- Croatian: “Guernsey”
- Czech: “Guernsey”
- Danish: “Bailiwick of Guernsey”
- Danish: “Guernsey”
- Dhivehi: “ގުއާންސޭ”
- Dimli (individual language): “Guernsey”
- Dutch: “Guernsey”
- Dzongkha: “གུ་ཨེརྣ་སི”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جيرنزى”
- Esperanto: “Gernezejo”
- Estonian: “Guernsey”
- Ewe: “Guernse nutome”
- Faroese: “Guernsey”
- Finnish: “Guernsey”
- French: “Bailliage de Guernesey”
- French: “Guernesey”
- Gagauz: “Guernsey”
- Galician: “Guernsey”
- Georgian: “გერნზი”
- Georgian: “გერნსი”
- German: “Bailiwick of Guernsey”
- German: “Guernsey”
- Greek: “Βαϊλάτο του Γκέρνζι”
- Greek: “Γκέρνζι”
- Greek: “Γουερνισία”
- Gujarati: “ગ્વેર્નસે”
- Hakka Chinese: “Guernsey”
- Hausa: “Guernsey”
- Hausa: “Yankin Guernsey”
- Hebrew: “גרנזי”
- Hindi: “गर्नसी”
- Hindi: “ग्वेर्नसे”
- Hungarian: “Guernsey Bailiffség”
- Hungarian: “Guernsey”
- Icelandic: “Guernsey”
- Ido: “Guernsey”
- Igbo: “Guernsey”
- Indonesian: “Bailiwick of Guernsey”
- Indonesian: “Guernsey”
- Interlingua: “Guernsey”
- Interlingue: “Guernsey”
- Irish: “Geansaí”
- Italian: “Baliato di Guernsey”
- Italian: “Guernsey”
- Japanese: “ガーンジー”
- Javanese: “Guernsei”
- Javanese: “Guernsey”
- Jèrriais: “Bailliage dé Guernési”
- Kalaallisut: “Guernsey”
- Kalmyk: “Гөрнзин Арл”
- Kannada: “ಗುರ್ನ್ಸಿ”
- Kannada: “ಗುರ್ನ್ಸೆ”
- Kannada: “ಬೇಲಿವಿಕ್ ಆಫ್ ಗರ್ನ್ಸಿ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Gernsi”
- Kashmiri: “گیوَنَرسے”
- Kazakh: “Гернси”
- Khmer: “ហ្គេនស៊ី”
- Kinyarwanda: “Gwasi”
- Kirghiz: “Гернси”
- Korean: “건지 관할구”
- Korean: “건지 행정관 관할구”
- Korean: “건지”
- Kurdish: “Guernsey”
- Lao: “ເກີນຊີ”
- Latin: “Sarnia insula”
- Latin: “Sarnia”
- Latvian: “Gērnsija”
- Ligurian: “Guernsey”
- Limburgan: “Guernsey”
- Lingala: “Guernesey”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Gernsi”
- Literary Chinese: “根息”
- Literary Chinese: “根息島”
- Lithuanian: “Gernsis”
- Lombard: “Guernsey”
- Low German: “Guernsey”
- Luxembourgish: “Guernsey”
- Macedonian: “Гернзи”
- Malay: “Guernsey”
- Malayalam: “ഗേൺസി”
- Maltese: “Guernsey”
- Manx: “Guernsey”
- Maori: “Kōnihi”
- Marathi: “गर्न्सी”
- Marathi: “ग्वेर्नसे”
- Mazanderani: “گرنزی”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Guernsey”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Guernsey”
- Moksha: “Гэрнси”
- Mongolian: “Гернси”
- Nepali: “गुर्न्जी”
- Nepali: “ग्यूर्न्सी”
- Northern Frisian: “Guernsey”
- Northern Luri: “گئرئنزی”
- Northern Sami: “Guernsey”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Guernsey”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Guernsey”
- Norwegian: “Guernsey”
- Novial: “Guernsey”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Guernesey”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Guernsīeg”
- Oriya: “ଗୁଏରନେସି”
- Ossetian: “Гернси”
- Panjabi: “ਗਰਨਜੀ”
- Panjabi: “ਗਰਨਜ਼ੇ”
- Persian: “قلمرو پیشکاری گرنزی”
- Persian: “گرنزی”
- Polish: “Guernsey”
- Portuguese: “Guernsey”
- Pushto: “ګرنزي”
- Pushto: “ګرنسي”
- Quechua: “Guernesey”
- Romanian: “Guernsey”
- Romansh: “Guernsey”
- Russian: “Гернси”
- Scots: “Guernsey”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Geàrnsaidh”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Guernsey”
- Serbian: “Бејливик Гернзи”
- Serbian: “Гернзи”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Guernsey”
- Shan: “ပီးလိဝိၵ်ႉ ၶွင် ၵႂၢၼ်းသီ”
- Silesian: “Guernsey”
- Sindhi: “بيليوڪ آف گرنزي”
- Sindhi: “گورنسي”
- Sinhala: “ගර්න්සිය”
- Slovak: “Guernsey”
- Slovenian: “Guernsey”
- Somali: “Guurnsey”
- Spanish: “Bailía de Guernsey”
- Spanish: “Guernesey”
- Spanish: “Guernsey”
- Sundanese: “Guernsey”
- Swahili: “Guernsey”
- Swedish: “Guernsey”
- Tagalog: “Guernsey”
- Tajik: “Гернси”
- Tajik: “Гернсӣ”
- Tamil: “குயெர்ன்சி”
- Tamil: “கெர்ன்சி”
- Tatar: “Гернси”
- Telugu: “గర్న్సీ”
- Telugu: “బెయిలివిక్ ఆఫ్ గెర్న్సే”
- Thai: “เกิร์นซีย์”
- Thai: “เขตเจ้าพนักงานศาลเกิร์นซีย์”
- Tigrinya: “ገርንሲ”
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Kuenisī”
- Tumbuka: “Bailiwick of Guernsey”
- Turkish: “Guernsey Kraliyet Muhafızlığı”
- Turkish: “Guernsey”
- Turkmen: “Gernsi”
- Uighur: “گۇرنسېي”
- Ukrainian: “Гернсі”
- Upper Sorbian: “Guernsey”
- Urdu: “گرنزی”
- Urdu: “گوئرنسی”
- Uzbek: “Gernsi”
- Vietnamese: “Địa hạt Guernsey”
- Vietnamese: “Guernsey”
- Waray (Philippines): “Guernsey”
- Welsh: “Beilïaeth Ynys y Garn”
- Welsh: “Ynys y Garn”
- Western Frisian: “Guernsey”
- Western Panjabi: “گرنزی”
- Wolof: “Gernase”
- Wu Chinese: “根西岛”
- Wu Chinese: “隑恩塞岛”
- Yiddish: “גערנזי”
- Yoruba: “Guernsey”
- Yue Chinese: “根息島”
- Zeeuws: “Guernsey”
- Zulu: “I-Guernsey”
- “Guernsey”
- “ma kipisi Kenesi”
- “बालिविक ऑफ गुएर्नसी”
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