Formation
Sep 19, 1983
Sep 19, 1983
Basseterre
47,606 (2021)
An island country situated between the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea. It comprises two tropical islands that united in 1882. It is the smallest sovereign state in the Western Hemisphere, in both area and population.
It is home to thousands of green vervet monkeys. There are more than 40 different types of mangoes grown there. St. Kitts was once the base of a lucrative sugar trade.