Parishes of Dominica

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Updates: 

I came across a three-volume world gazetteer in China that had the 1991 populations of the parishes. The 2001 populations are shown in a report  on damage from the 2004 earthquake.

ISO 3166-2 Newsletter I-8, published on 2007-04-17, has new ISO parish codes for Dominica. They are shown in the table below. They replace codes from a draft version, ISO/DIS 2166-2, which had not been supported.

International standard ISO 3166-2 was published on December 15, 1998. It superseded ISO/DIS 3166-2 (draft international standard). For Dominica, the draft standard showed ten parishes with their codes. The final standard mentions that there are ten parishes, but declines to specify names or codes. It says that these divisions are "not relevant".

Country overview: 

Short nameDOMINICA
ISO codeDM
FIPS codeDO
LanguageEnglish (en)
Time zone-4
CapitalRoseau

 

At the beginning of the 20th century, Dominica was one of five presidencies of the Leeward Islands, a British colony. On 1940-01-01, it became a separate British colony. On 1958-04-22, it joined the West Indies Federation. The Federation was dissolved on 1962-05-31. Dominica became independent on 1978-11-03.

Other names of country: 

  1. Danish: Dominica
  2. Dutch: Dominica, Gemenebest Dominica (formal)
  3. English: Commonwealth of Dominica (formal)
  4. Finnish: Dominica
  5. French: Dominique f
  6. German: Dominica n
  7. Icelandic: Dóminíka
  8. Italian: Dominica
  9. Norwegian: Dominica, Samveldet Dominica (formal)
  10. Portuguese: Dominica, Comunidade f da Dominica f (formal)
  11. Spanish: Dominica, Commonwealth de Dominica (formal)
  12. Swedish: Dominica

Origin of name: 

discovered by Christopher Columbus on Sunday 1493-11-03 (Spanish domingo: Sunday)

Primary subdivisions: 

Dominica is divided into ten parishes.

ParishHASCISOFIPSPop-2001Pop-1991Pop-1981Area(km.²)Area(mi.²)
Saint AndrewDM.AN02DO0210,24011,10612,74816564
Saint DavidDM.DA03DO036,7586,9777,33712046
Saint GeorgeDM.GO04DO0419,82520,36520,5015521
Saint JohnDM.JN05DO055,3274,9905,4126525
Saint JosephDM.JH06DO065,7656,1836,60611042
Saint LukeDM.LU07DO071,5711,5521,503156
Saint MarkDM.MA08DO081,9071,9431,921156
Saint PatrickDM.PK09DO098,3838,9299,78010039
Saint PaulDM.PL10DO108,3977,4956,3866525
Saint PeterDM.PR11DO111,4521,6431,6014015
10 parishes69,62571,18373,795750289
  • HASC: Hierarchical administrative subdivision codes.
  • ISO: Codes from ISO 3166-2.
  • FIPS: Codes from FIPS PUB 10-4.
  • Pop-2001: 2001-05-12 census
  • Pop-1991: 1991-05-12 census
  • Pop-1981: 1981-04-07 census
  • The parishes don't have capitals.

Territorial extent: 

The country consists of the island of Dominica.
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