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Updates: 

I updated the population to the latest Australian census.

Country overview: 

Short name	CHRISTMAS ISLAND
ISO code	CX
FIPS code	KT
Language	English (en)
Time zone	+7
Capital	Flying Fish Cove

 

Christmas Island was part of the Straits Settlements (the precursor of Malaysia). In 1900, the settlement of Singapore brought it into the colony of Singapore. On 1958-10-01, it was transferred to Australia as an external territory.

Other names of country: 

1. Dutch: Christmaseilanden
2. English: Territory of Christmas Island (formal)
3. French: Île f Christmas
4. German: Weihnachtsinsel f
5. Italian: Isola f Christmas
6. Portuguese: Ilha Christmas, Ilha f do Natal m
7. Russian: Остров Рождества
8. Spanish: Isla Christmas, Isla f de Christmas
9. Turkish: Christmas Adası

Origin of name: 

Discovered on Christmas Day

Primary subdivisions: 

Christmas Island has no known administrative divisions.

Country	HASC	Population	Area(km.²)	Area(mi.²)	Capital
Christmas Island	CX.CX	2,072	135	52	Flying Fish Cove
Country: This division is the whole of the country, treated as a division for compatibility. HASC: Hierarchical administrative subdivision code. Population: 2011-08-09 census

Territorial extent: 

Christmas Island is an isolated island in the Indian Ocean. It should not be confused with Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean, which is part of Kiribati, and is now more properly called Kiritimati (the Micronesian rendering of "Christmas"). Flying Fish Cove is not officially a capital, but is the only settlement shown on most maps of Christmas Island.

The UN LOCODE page  for Christmas Island lists locations in the country, some of them with their latitudes and longitudes, some with their ISO 3166-2 codes for their subdivisions. This information can be put together to approximate the territorial extent of subdivisions.

Population history:

Date	Population
1931	1,059
1940	1,440
1957-06-17	2,619
1961-06-30	3,099
1976-06-30	3,260
1986	2,000
1991-06-30	1,275
2001-08-07	1,508
2011-08-07	2,072