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Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha is a British overseas territory consisting of the islands of and , together with the islands group.
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Island is in the eastern part of the South Atlantic Ocean and is one of the world's most isolated islands. If you start crossing the Atlantic due west from the border between and , Island will appear about one-third of the way across to Brazil.

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refers both to an archipelago of fairly small islands in the middle of the and to the only inhabited island of the group.

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Island is an , just south of the equator, 700 miles northwest of , the territory by which it is administered.

Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

  • Type: Country with 7,460 residents
  • Description: British overseas territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean
  • Also known as: “Saint Helena”, “Saint Helena and Dependencies”, “Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan Da Cunha”, “Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha”, “SH”, “SHN”, “St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha”, “St. Helena”, “St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan Da Cunha”, “St. Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha”, and “聖赫勒拿島”
  • Language: English
  • Categories: British overseas territory and locality
  • Location:
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Latitude of center
-26.54° or 26° 32′ 24″ south
Longitude of center
-9° or 9° west
Population
7,460
Area
158 miles² (410 km²)
Elevation
1,877 feet (572 metres)
Capital
Jamestown
Currency
Pound (SHP)
Phone code
.sh
Internet domain
290
United Nations Location Code
SH TDC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9661543259
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
3370751
Wiki­data ID
Q192184
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Sint Helena, Ascension en Tristan da Cunha”
  • Afrikaans: “Sint Helena”
  • Akan: “Saint Helena”
  • Albanian: “Shën-Elenë”
  • Amharic: “ሴንት ሄለና”
  • Amharic: “ሴይንት ህሊና፣ አሰንሽንና ትሪስተን ደ ኩና”
  • Angika: “सेंट हेलेना”
  • Arabic: “جزر سانت هيلينا وأسينشين وتريستان دا كونا”
  • Arabic: “سانت هيلانة وأسينشين وتريستان دا كونا”
  • Arabic: “سانت هيلينا وأسينشين وتريستان دا كونا”
  • Arabic: “سانت هيلينا، أسينسيون وتريستان دا كونها”
  • Arabic: “سانت هيلينا”
  • Armenian: “Սուրբ Հեղինեի կղզի, Համբարձման կղզի և Տրիստան դա Կունյա”
  • Armenian: “Սուրբ Հեղինեի կղզի”
  • Assamese: “ছেইণ্ট হেলেনা”
  • Asturian: “Santa Lena”
  • Azerbaijani: “Müqəddəs Yelena, Askenson və Tristan-da-Kunya adaları”
  • Azerbaijani: “Müqəddəs Yelena, Yüksəliş və Tristan-da-Kunya adaları”
  • Azerbaijani: “Müqəddəs Yelena”
  • Bambara: “Ɛlɛni Senu”
  • Bashkir: “Изге Елена, Олғашыу һәм Тристан-да-Кунья утрауҙары”
  • Basque: “Santa Helena, Ascension eta Tristan da Cunha”
  • Basque: “Santa Helena”
  • Belarusian: “Астравы Святой Алены, Узнясення і Трыстан-да-Кунья”
  • Belarusian: “Астравы Святой Алены, Ушэсця і Трыстан-да-Кунья”
  • Belarusian: “Астравы Сьвятой Гэлены, Ушэсьця і Трыстан-да-Куньня”
  • Belarusian: “Астравы Сьвятой Гэлены”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Святой Алены”
  • Bengali: “সেন্ট হেলেনা, অ্যাসেনশন এবং ত্রিস্তান দা কুনহা”
  • Bengali: “সেন্ট হেলেনা, অ্যাসেনশন ও ত্রিস্তান দা কুনহা”
  • Bengali: “সেন্ট হেলেনা”
  • Bishnupriya: “সেন্ট হেলেনা”
  • Bosnian: “Sveta Helena, Ascension i Tristan da Cunha”
  • Bosnian: “Sveta Helena”
  • Breton: “Saint Helena, Ascension ha Tristan da Cunha”
  • Breton: “Saint-Helena”
  • Bulgarian: “Света Елена, Възнесение и Тристан да Куня”
  • Bulgarian: “Света Елена”
  • Burmese: “စိန့်ဟယ်လယ်နာ”
  • Burmese: “စိန့်ဟယ်လီနာ၊​ကောင်းကင်ဘုံတက်ခြင်းနှင့် တြိစတန်ဒါကူဟာ”
  • Catalan: “Saint Helena”
  • Catalan: “Santa Helena, Ascensió i Tristan da Cunha”
  • Chechen: “Аьрдачу Еленин а, Стиглание-Ваккхарин а, Тристан-да-Куньян а гӀайренаш”
  • Chechen: “Сийлахьчу Еленин гӀайре”
  • Chinese: “Saint Helena, Ascension kap Tristan da Cunha”
  • Chinese: “圣赫勒拿、阿森松和特里斯坦-达库尼亚”
  • Chinese: “圣赫勒拿、阿森松和特里斯坦达库尼亚”
  • Chinese: “圣赫勒拿”
  • Chinese: “聖海倫娜、亞森松同崔斯坦達庫尼亞”
  • Chinese: “聖海倫娜、阿森松和崔斯坦達庫尼亞”
  • Chinese: “聖赫勒拿、亞森欣和崔斯坦達庫尼亞”
  • Chinese: “聖赫勒拿、亞森欣與崔斯坦達庫尼亞”
  • Croatian: “Sveta Helena, Ascension i Tristan da Cunha”
  • Croatian: “Sveta Helena”
  • Czech: “Svatá Helena, Ascension a Tristan da Cunha”
  • Czech: “Svatá Helena”
  • Danish: “Sankt Helena, Ascension og Tristan da Cunha”
  • Danish: “St. Helena”
  • Dutch: “SH”
  • Dutch: “SHN”
  • Dutch: “Sint-Helena, Ascension en Tristan da Cunha”
  • Dutch: “Sint-Helena”
  • Dzongkha: “སེནཊ་ ཧེ་ལི་ན”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اقليم سانت هيلانه وتوابعه”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سانت هيلانه واسينشين وتريستان دا كونا”
  • Esperanto: “Sankta Heleno, Ascension kaj Tristan da Cunha”
  • Esperanto: “Sent-Heleno”
  • Esperanto: “SH”
  • Estonian: “Saint Helena asumaa ja sõltkonnad”
  • Estonian: “Saint Helena asumaa”
  • Estonian: “Saint Helena, Ascension ja Tristan da Cunha”
  • Estonian: “Saint Helena”
  • Ewe: “Saint Helena nutome”
  • Faroese: “St. Helena”
  • Finnish: “Saint Helena, Ascension ja Tristan da Cunha”
  • Finnish: “Saint Helena”
  • French: “Île Sainte-Hélène”
  • French: “Saint Helena and Dependencies”
  • French: “Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha”
  • French: “Sainte-Hélène et ses dépendances”
  • French: “Sainte-Hélène, Ascension et Tristan da Cunha”
  • French: “Sainte-Hélène”
  • Fulah: “Sent Helen”
  • Galician: “Santa Helena, Ascensión e Tristan da Cunha”
  • Galician: “Santa Helena”
  • Ganda: “Senti Herena”
  • Georgian: “წმინდა ელენე, ამაღლება და ტრისტანი-და-კუნია”
  • Georgian: “წმინდა ელენეს კუნძული”
  • German: “St. Helena, Ascension und Tristan da Cunha”
  • German: “St. Helena”
  • Greek: “Αγία Ελένη, Ασενσιόν και Τριστάν ντα Κούνια”
  • Greek: “Αγία Ελένη”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Sent-Hélène, Asansyon é Tristan da Cunha”
  • Gujarati: “સેંટ હેલેના”
  • Gujarati: “સેન્ટ હેલેના, એસેન્શન એન્ડ ત્રિસ્તાન દા કુન્હા”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Saint Helena, Ascension lâu Tristan da Cunha”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Saint Helena”
  • Hausa: “San Helena”
  • Hebrew: “סנט הלנה, אסנשן וטריסטן דה קונה”
  • Hebrew: “סנט הלנה”
  • Hindi: “सन्त हेलेना, असेंशन और ट्रिस्टन डा कुन्हा”
  • Hindi: “सेंट हेलेना, असेंशन और त्रिस्तान दा कुन्हा”
  • Hindi: “सेंट हेलेना”
  • Hungarian: “Szent Ilona, Ascension és Tristan da Cunha”
  • Hungarian: “Szent Ilona”
  • Icelandic: “Sankti Helena, Ascension og Tristan da Cunha”
  • Icelandic: “Sankti Helena”
  • Igbo: “Saint Helena, Ascension na Tristan da Cunha”
  • Igbo: “Saint Helena”
  • Igbo: “St. Helena”
  • Indonesian: “Saint Helena, Ascension dan Tristan da Cunha”
  • Indonesian: “Saint Helena”
  • Irish: “San Héilin, Oileán na Deascabhála agus Tristan da Cunha”
  • Irish: “San Héilin”
  • Italian: “Sant’Elena e dipendenze”
  • Italian: “Sant’Elena, Ascensione e Tristan da Cunha”
  • Italian: “Sant’Elena”
  • Japanese: “セントヘレナ・アセンションおよびトリスタン・ダ・クーニャ”
  • Japanese: “セントヘレナ・アセンションおよびトリスタンダクーニャ”
  • Japanese: “セントヘレナ”
  • Javanese: “Saint Héléna”
  • Kalaallisut: “Saint Helena”
  • Kannada: “ಸೇಂಟ್ ಹೆಲೆನಾ, ಅಸೆನ್ಶನ್ ಮತ್ತು ಟ್ರಿಸ್ಟಾನ್ ಡಾ ಕುನ್ಹಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಸೇಂಟ್ ಹೆಲೆನಾ”
  • Kashmiri: “سینٹ ہؠلِنا”
  • Kazakh: “Әулие Елена аралы”
  • Kazakh: “Әулие Елена, Эсеншн және Тристан-да-Кунья аралдары”
  • Kazakh: “Әулие Елена”
  • Khmer: “សង់​ហេឡេណា”
  • Kikuyu: “Santahelena”
  • Kirghiz: “Ыйык Елена”
  • Korean: “세인트헬레나 및 속령”
  • Korean: “세인트헬레나 어센션 트리스탄다쿠냐”
  • Korean: “세인트헬레나”
  • Ladin: “Santa Helena, Assenscion y Tristan da Cunha”
  • Lao: “ເຊນ ເຮເລນາ”
  • Latin: “Sancta Helena, Ascensio et Tristan da Cunha”
  • Latvian: “Sv.Helēnas sala”
  • Latvian: “Svētās Helēnas sala, Debesbraukšanas sala un Tristana da Kuņas salas”
  • Lingala: “Sántu eleni”
  • Lithuanian: “Šv. Elena, Kilimo Dangun sala ir Tristanas de Kunja”
  • Lithuanian: “Šv. Elenos Sala”
  • Lithuanian: “Šv. Elenos, Dangun Žengimo ir Tristano da Kunjos salos”
  • Lithuanian: “Šventoji Elena, Dangun Žengimo ir Tristanas da Kunja”
  • Low German: “Saint Helena”
  • Low German: “Sunt-Helena, Ascension en Tristan da Cunha”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Santu eleni”
  • Luxembourgish: “Saint Helena, Ascension an Tristan da Cunha”
  • Luxembourgish: “St. Helena”
  • Macedonian: “Света Елена, Вознесение и Тристан да Куња”
  • Macedonian: “Света Елена”
  • Malagasy: “Sainte-Hélène”
  • Malay: “Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha”
  • Malay: “Saint Helena, Ascension dan Tristan da Cunha”
  • Malay: “Saint Helena”
  • Malayalam: “സെന്റ് ഹെലീന”
  • Malayalam: “സൈന്റ് ഹെലെന, അസൻഷൻ, ട്രിസ്റ്റൻ ഡാ കൂഞ്ഞ”
  • Maltese: “Saint Helena, Ascension u Tristan da Cunha”
  • Maltese: “Saint Helena”
  • Maltese: “Sant’Elena, Ascension u Tristan da Cunha”
  • Marathi: “सेंट हेलेना, असेन्शन अँड त्रिस्तान दा कुन्हा”
  • Marathi: “सेंट हेलेना”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Saint Helena, Ascension gâe̤ng Tristan da Cunha”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Saint Helena, Ascension kap Tristan da Cunha”
  • Mongolian: “Сент Хелена”
  • Nepali: “सेन्ट हेलेना”
  • North Ndebele: “Saint Helena”
  • Northern Frisian: “St. Helena, Ascension an Tristan da Cunha”
  • Northern Sami: “Saint Helena”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Saint Helena, Ascension og Tristan da Cunha”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “SHN”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “St. Helena”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Saint Helena”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “St. Helena, Ascension og Tristan da Cunha”
  • Norwegian: “St. Helena, Ascension og Tristan da Cunha”
  • Norwegian: “St. Helena”
  • Novial: “Sankte Helena”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Santa Elena, Ascension e Tristan da Cunha”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Santa Elena”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sancte Elene Īeg, Upstigeīeg and Tristan da Cunha”
  • Oriya: “ସେଣ୍ଟ ହେଲେନା”
  • Ossetian: “Сыгъдæг Еленæйы сакъадах, Зæрдæвæрæны сакъадах æмæ Тристан-да-Кунья”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੇਂਟ ਹੇਲੇਨਾ”
  • Persian: “سنت هلن”
  • Persian: “سنت هلنا، اسنشن و تریستان دا کونا”
  • Polish: “Święta Helena i Dependencje”
  • Polish: “Wyspa Świętej Heleny, Wyspa Wniebowstąpienia i Tristan da Cunha”
  • Polish: “Wyspa Świętej Heleny”
  • Portuguese: “Santa Helena e Dependências”
  • Portuguese: “Santa Helena, Ascensão e Tristão da Cunha”
  • Portuguese: “Santa Helena, Ascensão, e Tristão da Cunha”
  • Portuguese: “Santa Helena”
  • Portuguese: “SH”
  • Pushto: “سينټ هېلېنا ، اسېنشن او تريستان دا کونا”
  • Pushto: “سینټ هیلینا”
  • Quechua: “Santa Elena”
  • Romanian: “Sfânta Elena, Ascension și Tristan da Cunha”
  • Romanian: “Sfânta Elena”
  • Romansh: “Sontg’Elena”
  • Rundi: “Sehelene”
  • Russian: “о-в Св. Елены”
  • Russian: “Острова Святой Елены, Вознесения и Тристан-да-Кунья”
  • Sango: “Sênt-Helêna”
  • Scots: “Saunt Helena, Ascension an Tristan da Cunha”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Eilean Naomh Eilidh”
  • Serbian: “Sveta Jelena, Asension i Tristan da Kunja”
  • Serbian: “Света Јелена, Асенсион и Тристан да Куња”
  • Serbian: “Света Јелена”
  • Serbian: “Света Хелена, Асенсион, и Тристан да Куња”
  • Shan: “သဵင်ႉႁႄးလႄးၼႃႇ၊ ဢေႇသႅၼ်းသျိၼ်ႇ လႄႈ ထရီႇသၼ်ႇ တႃႇ ၶုၼ်းၺႃႇ”
  • Shona: “Saint Helena”
  • Sindhi: “سينٽ ھيلينا”
  • Sinhala: “ශාන්ත හෙලේනා ඇසෙන්ෂන් සහ ට්‍රිස්ටන් ඩා කුන්හා”
  • Sinhala: “ශාන්ත හෙලේනා, ඇසෙන්ෂන් සහ ට්‍රිස්ටන් ඩා කුන්හා”
  • Sinhala: “ශාන්ත හෙලේනා”
  • Slovak: “Svätá Helena, Ascension a Tristan da Cunha”
  • Slovak: “Svätá Helena”
  • Slovenian: “Sveta Helena, Ascension in Tristan da Cunha”
  • Slovenian: “Sveta Helena”
  • Somali: “Saynt Helena”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سنت هلنا، اسنشن و تریستان دا کونا”
  • Spanish: “Ascension y Tristan da Cunha”
  • Spanish: “Ascension y Tristán da Cunha”
  • Spanish: “Ascensión y Tristan da Cunha”
  • Spanish: “Ascensión y Tristán da Cunha”
  • Spanish: “Islas Santa Elena”
  • Spanish: “Saint Helena”
  • Spanish: “Santa Elena, Ascensión y Tristán de Acuña”
  • Spanish: “Santa Elena”
  • Spanish: “Santa Helena, Ascensión y Tristán de Acuña”
  • Sundanese: “Saint Helena, Ascension, jeung Tristan da Cunha”
  • Sundanese: “Saint Héléna, Ascension, jeung Tristan da Cunha”
  • Swahili: “St. Helena”
  • Swedish: “S:t Helena”
  • Swedish: “Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha”
  • Swedish: “Sankta Helena, Ascension och Tristan da Cunha”
  • Tajik: “Сент Елена”
  • Tamil: “செயிண்ட் எலனா, லாசென்சன் மற்றும் திரிசுத்தான் தா குன்யா”
  • Tamil: “செயிண்ட் எலனா”
  • Tamil: “செயின்ட் ஹெலினா , அசென்ஷன் அண்ட் ட்ரிஸ்டன் டா கன்ஹா”
  • Tamil: “செயின்ட் ஹெலெனா”
  • Tatar: “Изге Елена, Күккә ашу һәм Тристан-да-Кунья утраулары”
  • Tatar: “Изге Елена”
  • Telugu: “సెయింట్ హెలెనా, అసెన్షన్ మరియు ట్రైస్టాన్ దా కున్హా”
  • Telugu: “సెయింట్ హెలెనా, ఏసన్షన్, ట్రిస్టన్ డా కున్హా”
  • Telugu: “సెయింట్ హెలెనా”
  • Thai: “เซนต์เฮเลนา อัสเซนชัน และตริสตันดากูนยา”
  • Thai: “เซนต์เฮเลนา”
  • Tibetan: “སེནྚ། ཧེ་ལི་ན།”
  • Tigrinya: “ሴንት ሄለና”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Sā Helena”
  • Turkish: “Saint Helena, Ascension ve Tristan da Cunha”
  • Turkish: “Saint Helena”
  • Turkmen: “Keramatly Ýelena adasy”
  • Tyap: “Saint Helena, Ascension ma̱ng Tristan da Cunya”
  • Tyap: “Sen Helena, Ascension ma̱ng Tristan da Cunha”
  • Tyap: “Sen Helena, Ascension ma̱ng Tristan da Kunya”
  • Uighur: “ساينىت ھېلېنا”
  • Ukrainian: “Острів Святої Єлени”
  • Ukrainian: “Острови Святої Єлени, Вознесіння і Тристан-да-Кунья”
  • Urdu: “Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha”
  • Urdu: “سینٹ ہلینا، اسینشن و ترسٹان دا کونیا”
  • Urdu: “سینٹ ہیلینا”
  • Uzbek: “Muqaddas Yelena oroli”
  • Uzbek: “Muqaddas Yelena, Meʼroj va Tristan-da-Kunya orollari”
  • Uzbek: “Muqaddas Yelena, Vozneseniya va Tristan-da-Kunya orollari”
  • Vietnamese: “Saint Helena, Ascension và Tristan da Cunha”
  • Vietnamese: “St. Helena”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Saint Helena, Ascension ngan Tristan da Cunha”
  • Welsh: “Saint Helena, Ascension a Tristan da Cunha”
  • Welsh: “Saint Helena”
  • Western Frisian: “Sint-Helena”
  • Western Panjabi: “سینٹ ہلینا، اسینشن و ترسٹان دا کونیا”
  • Wolof: “Saŋ Eleen”
  • Wu Chinese: “圣赫勒拿、阿森松搭特里斯坦-达库尼亚”
  • Wu Chinese: “圣赫勒拿、阿森松搭特里斯坦达库尼亚”
  • Wu Chinese: “聖赫勒拿、阿森松搭特里斯坦-達庫尼亞”
  • Yiddish: “סט העלענע”
  • Yoruba: “Hẹlena”
  • Yoruba: “Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha”
  • Yoruba: “Saint Helena, Ascension àti Tristan da Cunha”
  • Yue Chinese: “聖海倫娜、亞森松同崔斯坦達庫尼亞”
  • Zulu: “i-St. Helena”
  • “SH”
  • “SHN”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha”. Photo: LordHarris, CC BY-SA 3.0.