Sark
Sark is a small island within the Bailiwick of Guernsey in the Channel Islands, with a population of 492 in 2015 and an area of little more than 2 square miles.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Phillip Capper, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Village with 492 residents
- Description: one of the Channel Islands. Part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, which is one of the British Crown Dependencies
- Also known as: “Cerq”, “Ser”, and “Sèr”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Brecqhou and Le Moulin.
Brecqhou
Islet
Photo: Diegourdiales, CC BY 3.0.
Brecqhou is one of the Channel Islands, located off the west coast of Sark where they are now geographically detached from each other. Brecqhou is politically part of both Sark and the Bailiwick of Guernsey.
Le Moulin
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Le Moulin is the highest point in Sark and is also the highest point of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown Dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy, with an altitude of 114 metres.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Little Sark and Point Derrible.
Sark
- Categories: island, Crown Dependencies, car-free place, and locality
- Location: Guernsey, Channel Islands, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
49.4352° or 49° 26′ 7″ northLongitude
-2.3596° or 2° 21′ 35″ westPopulation
492Elevation
104 metres (341 feet)Open location code
8CXVCJPR+35OpenStreetMap ID
node 27748769OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
8989935Wikidata ID
Q3405693
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Satellite Map
Discover Sark from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Sark” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Sark”
- Arabic: “سارك”
- Bashkir: “Сарк”
- Basque: “Sark”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Сарк”
- Belarusian: “Сарк”
- Bengali: “সার্ক”
- Betawi: “Sarek”
- Breton: “Sark”
- Bulgarian: “Сарк”
- Catalan: “Sark”
- Cebuano: “Sark”
- Chinese: “萨克”
- Chinese: “薩克”
- Chinese: “薩克島”
- Croatian: “Sark”
- Czech: “Sark”
- Danish: “Sark”
- Dutch: “Sark”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سارك”
- Esperanto: “Sark”
- Estonian: “Sarki saar”
- Finnish: “Sark”
- French: “Sercq”
- Galician: “Sark”
- German: “Sark”
- Greek: “Σαρκ”
- Gujarati: “સાર્ક”
- Hebrew: “סרק”
- Hebrew: “סֶרְק”
- Hindi: “सर्क”
- Hungarian: “Sark”
- Igbo: “Sark”
- Indonesian: “Sark”
- Interlingue: “Sark”
- Irish: “An tSairc”
- Italian: “Sark”
- Japanese: “サーク島”
- Javanese: “Sark”
- Kannada: “ಸಾರ್ಕ್”
- Korean: “사크 섬”
- Korean: “사크섬”
- Latin: “Sargia”
- Latvian: “Sarka”
- Lithuanian: “Sarkas”
- Low German: “Sark”
- Malay: “Sark”
- Marathi: “सार्क”
- Narom: “Ser”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sark”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sark”
- Norwegian: “Sark”
- Novial: “Sark”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sarc”
- Persian: “سارک”
- Persian: “سرک”
- Polish: “Sark”
- Portuguese: “Sark”
- Romanian: “Sark”
- Russian: “Сарк”
- Saterfriesisch: “Sark”
- Scots: “Sark”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Sark”
- Serbian: “Сарк”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sark”
- Sindhi: “سارڪ”
- Sinhala: “සාර්ක්”
- Slovak: “Sark”
- Slovenian: “Sark”
- Spanish: “isla de Sark”
- Spanish: “Sark”
- Swedish: “Sark”
- Tamil: “சார்க்”
- Telugu: “సార్క్”
- Thai: “ซาร์ก”
- Turkish: “Sark Adası”
- Turkish: “Sark”
- Ukrainian: “Сарк”
- Urdu: “سارک”
- Vietnamese: “Sark”
- Vlaams: “Sark”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sark”
- Welsh: “Sark”
- Wu Chinese: “萨克岛”
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