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Updates: 

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

Country overview: 

Short name	SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES
ISO code	VC
FIPS code	VC
Language	English (en)
Time zone	-4
Capital	Kingstown

 

Saint Vincent was a British colony until it became independent on 1979-10-27, taking its present name.

Other names of country: 

1. Danish: Saint Vincent og Grenadinerne
2. Dutch: Sint Vincent, Saint Vincent en de Grenadines
3. Finnish: Saint Vincent ja Grenadiinit
4. French: Saint-Vincent-et-Grenadines, Saint-Vincent-et-les Grenadines
5. German: Sankt Vincent und die Grenadinen n
6. Icelandic: Sankti Vinsent og Grenadíneyjar
7. Italian: Saint Vincent e Grenadine
8. Norwegian: Saint Vincent og Grenadinene (Bokmål), Saint Vincent og Grenadinane (Nynorsk)
9. Portuguese: São Vincente e Granadinas, São Vicente e Granadinas
10. Russian: Сент-Винсент и Гренадины
11. Spanish: San Vicente y las Granadinas fp
12. Swedish: Saint Vincent och Grenadinerna
13. Turkish: Saint Vincent ve Grenadinler

Origin of name: 

Saint Vincent named for the saint; Grenadines is an island group, named for its largest island, Grenada (which is a separate country)

Primary subdivisions: 

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is divided into six parishes.

Parish	HASC	ISO	FIPS	Population	Area(km.²)	Area(mi.²)	Capital
Charlotte	VC.CH	01	VC01	38,000	149	57	Georgetown
Grenadines	VC.GT	06	VC06	9,200	43	16	Port Elizabeth
Saint Andrew	VC.AN	02	VC02	6,700	29	11	Layou
Saint David	VC.DA	03	VC03	6,700	80	31	Chateaubelair
Saint George	VC.GE	04	VC04	51,400	52	20	Kingstown
Saint Patrick	VC.PA	05	VC05	5,800	37	14	Barrouallie
6 parishes				117,800	389	150
HASC: Hierarchical administrative subdivision codes. ISO: Codes from ISO 3166-2. FIPS: Codes from FIPS PUB 10-4. Population: 2000 estimates. Population and area figures provided by Karem Abdalla. Capital: Not official. This column shows a chief town in each parish.

Territorial extent: 

All of the parishes except Grenadines are mostly or entirely on Saint Vincent island.

1. Charlotte includes the Cow and Calves, rocks off the north shore of Saint Vincent.
2. Grenadines includes the northern Grenadine Islands, from Petit Saint Vincent in the south to Bequia in the north. The largest islands are Bequia, Mustique, Canouan, and Union.
3. Saint George includes the offshore islets Milligan Cay and Young Island.

The UN LOCODE page  for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 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:

The census reports I found (sources [1], [2]) report populations by census division and not by parish. Using these figures, it is possible to give exact populations for Grenadines and Saint David, but not the other parishes.

Census Division	1970-04-07	1980-05-12	1991-05-12	2001-05-14	Parishes
Barrouallie	4,197	4,667	5,199	5,422	PA
Bridgetown	6,372	6,762	7,532	6,754	CH
Calliaqua	14,043	17,440	20,290	22,095	GE
Chateaubelair	6,078	6,101	6,045	6,087	DA
Colonarie	4,309	7,210	7,890	7,482	CH
Georgetown	6,313	6,494	7,303	6,914	CH
Kingstown Suburbs	6,213	8,609	10,757	12,508	GE, AN
Kingstown	17,117	16,532	15,466	13,212	GE, AN
Layou	5,176	5,510	5,993	6,303	PA, AN
Marriaqua	7,641	8,408	8,864	8,145	CH, GE
Northern Grenadines	4,012	4,740	5,514	5,389	GT
Sandy Bay	2,517	2,867	2,793	2,716	CH
Southern Grenadines	2,326	2,505	2,853	3,226	GT
Total	86,314	97,845	106,499	106,253
Parishes: HASC-based abbreviation for parish(es) overlapping the census division.

Sources: 

1. [1] Population and Housing Census Report 2001 . Statistical Office, Kingstown (retrieved 2013-12-21).
2. [2] 1979 Demographic Yearbook , 31st Ed. Statistical Office, United Nations, New York, 1980 (retrieved 2011-12-28).