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Updates: 

Since 2009, Guernsey has been publishing population bulletins based on administrative registers. It plans not to take any more censuses. According to the registers, Guernsey’s population as of 2012-03-21 was 63,085. The Policy and Research Unit is planning to develop methods for reporting population by parish, but has not yet done so.

On 2006-03-29, the ISO 3166-1 Maintenance Agency issued an update. Guernsey has a new country code assigned to it.

Country overview: 

Short name	GUERNSEY
ISO code	GG
FIPS code	GK
Language	English (en), French (fr)
Time zone	0 ~
Capital	Saint Peter Port

 

The Channel Islands, consisting of the bailiwicks of Guernsey and Jersey, have been dependencies of the British crown since 1066. They constitute the only part of the Duchy of Normandy that still belongs to the crown. They were occupied by Germany from 1940 to 1945.

Other names of country: 

1. English: Bailiwick of Guernsey (formal)
2. French: Bailliage m de Guernesey (formal); Guernesey
3. German: Guernsey; Vogtei f Guernsey (formal)
4. Italian: Guernsey
5. Portuguese: Guernesey
6. Russian: Гернси
7. Spanish: Guernsey
8. Turkish: Guernsey

Primary subdivisions: 

Guernsey is divided into ten parishes and six dependencies.

Parish	HASC	Typ	Population	Area(km.²)	Area(mi.²)
Alderney	GG.AL	d	2,294	8	3
Brecqhou	GG.BQ	d		1	0
Castel	GG.CA	p	8,975	10	4
Forest	GG.FO	p	1,549	4	2
Herm	GG.HM	d	95	1	1
Jethou	GG.JT	d	2	0	0
Lihou	GG.LH	d		0	0
Saint Andrew	GG.AN	p	2,409	5	2
Saint Martin	GG.MA	p	6,267	7	3
Saint Peter Port	GG.PP	p	16,488	7	3
Saint Pierre du Bois	GG.PB	p	2,188	6	2
Saint Sampson	GG.SM	p	8,592	6	2
Saint Saviour	GG.SV	p	2,696	6	2
Sark	GG.SK	d	600	5	2
Torteval	GG.TV	p	973	3	1
Vale	GG.VA	p	9,573	9	3
16 divisions			60,407	78	30
HASC: Hierarchical administrative subdivision code. Typ: d = dependency, p = parish Population: 2001-04-29 census (Sark is an estimate)

Territorial extent: 

Guernsey includes the islands of Guernsey, Sark (Sercq in French), Alderney (Aurigny), Herm, Brecqhou, Jethou, and Lihou. The smaller islands are dependencies of Guernsey.

The UN LOCODE page  for Guernsey 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.

Change history: 

Although there has been no change in the political geography of Guernsey, on 2006-03-29 it was given a new ISO country code. Before that time it had been lumped in with the United Kingdom. Its old HASC code was GB.GU; its ISO code, GSY.

Population history:

Parish	1901	1911	1921	1931	1951	1961	1971	1976	1981	1986	1991	1996-03-31	2001-04-29
Castel	2,802	3,086	2,968	3,210	3,763	4,781	6,317	7,309	7,727	8,260	9,068	8,922	8,975
Forest	843	910	970	1,117	1,133	1,061	1,460	1,383	1,288	1,293	1,386	1,423	1,549
Saint Andrew	1,552	1,751	1,704	1,800	1,850	1,964	2,232	2,295	2,230	2,281	2,357	2,342	2,409
Saint Martin	3,202	3,437	3,280	3,678	4,587	5,223	6,161	6,072	5,842	5,876	6,082	6,082	6,267
Saint Peter Port	18,264	18,018	16,215	16,720	16,849	15,804	16,303	16,279	15,587	16,085	16,648	16,194	16,488
Saint Pierre du Bois	1,577	1,609	1,567	1,653	1,638	1,698	1,829	1,934	2,018	2,057	2,242	2,151	2,188
Saint Sampson	5,614	5,952	5,192	5,333	5,675	5,916	6,534	6,802	6,947	7,475	8,045	8,540	8,592
Saint Saviour	1,062	1,075	1,086	1,230	1,531	1,792	2,116	2,321	2,432	2,404	2,419	2,469	2,696
Torteval	448	499	509	568	634	716	841	914	881	926	976	954	973
Vale	5,082	5,486	4,792	5,279	5,943	6,113	7,558	8,251	8,316	8,764	9,530	9,504	9,573
Alderney	2,054				1,328	1,472	1,686		2,086	2,130	2,297	2,147	2,294
Herm	25	33	32	53	36	90	96	69	37	59	113	97	95
Jethou	3	2	0	2	13	8	11	8	8	2	1	3	2
Total	42,528	41,858	38,315	40,643	43,652	45,166	51,458	53,637	53,313	55,482	58,867	58,681	59,807

 

Source: 2001 Guernsey and Alderney census reports from States of Guernsey  website. Totals shown here include Guernsey, Herm, and Jethou for all years; Alderney where available; and exclude Brecqhou, Lihou, and Sark. 1901 Alderney population is an estimate from an old guidebook.