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Updates: 

The results of the 2011 census have been released.

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

Country overview: 

Short name	Jersey
ISO code	JE
FIPS code	JE
Language	English (en), French (fr)
Time zone	0 ~
Capital	Saint Helier

 

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 Jersey (formal)
2. French: Bailliage m de Jersey m (formal)
3. German: Jersey n; Vogtei f Jersey (formal)
4. Italian: Jersey
5. Portuguese: Jersey
6. Russian: Джерси
7. Spanish: Jersey
8. Turkish: Jersey

Origin of name: 

Jersey: corruption of Latin Cæsarea (dedicated to Caesar)

Primary subdivisions: 

Jersey is divided into twelve parishes.

Parish	HASC	Population	Area(km.²)	Area(mi.²)
Grouville	JE.GR	4,866	8	3
Saint Brelade	JE.BR	10,568	13	5
Saint Clement	JE.CL	9,221	4	2
Saint Helier	JE.HE	33,522	11	4
Saint John	JE.JO	2,911	9	3
Saint Lawrence	JE.LA	5,418	10	4
Saint Martin	JE.MT	3,763	10	4
Saint Mary	JE.MY	1,752	7	3
Saint Ouen	JE.OU	4,097	15	6
Saint Peter	JE.PE	5,003	12	4
Saint Saviour	JE.SA	13,580	9	4
Trinity	JE.TR	3,156	12	5
12 parishes		97,857	118	46
HASC: Hierarchical administrative subdivision code. Population: 2011-03-27 census

Territorial extent: 

Jersey consists of the island of Jersey and the tiny Îles Ecréhou and Minquiers.

The UN LOCODE page  for Jersey 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 Jersey, 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 HASC code at that time was GB.JE; its ISO code, JSY. Its conventional abbreviation is Jer.

Population history:

Parish	1951-04-08	1991	1996	2001-03-11	2011-03-27
Grouville	2,747	4,297	4,658	4,702	4,866
Saint Brelade	4,058	9,331	9,560	10,134	10,568
Saint Clement	4,066	7,393	7,986	8,196	9,221
Saint Helier	25,360	28,123	27,523	28,310	33,522
Saint John	1,386	2,440	2,520	2,618	2,911
Saint Lawrence	2,676	4,561	4,773	4,702	5,418
Saint Martin	2,485	3,258	3,423	3,628	3,763
Saint Mary	903	1,449	1,475	1,591	1,752
Saint Ouen	2,119	3,612	3,685	3,803	4,097
Saint Peter	2,897	4,231	4,228	4,293	5,003
Saint Saviour	6,801	12,747	12,680	12,491	13,580
Trinity	1,798	2,640	2,639	2,718	3,156
Total	57,296	84,082	85,150	87,186	97,857

 

Year	Population
1901	52,636
1911	51,898
1921	49,701
1931	50,462
1951	57,310
1961	57,200
1971	72,691
1991	84,082
2001	87,186
2011	97,857

Sources: 

1. [1] Report on the 2001 Census, Jersey  has parish populations according to the 1991, 1996, and 2001 censuses on p. 11 (document numbering; retrieved 2010-10-17). It has the country population going back to 1821 on p. 92.
2. [2] Demographic Yearbook , 7th Ed. Statistical Office of the United Nations, New York, 1955 (retrieved 2011-08-20).
3. [3] Bulletin 1: Total population , Jersey Census 2011.