Saint Lucia

Saint Lucia

Saint Lucia ranks 185th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind U.S. Virgin Islands, Timor-Leste, and Botswana. Memorable people born in present day Saint Lucia include Empress Joséphine, Derek Walcott, and W. Arthur Lewis. Memorable people who died in Saint Lucia include Derek Walcott, Kelvin Felix, and John Compton. Saint Lucia has been the birth place of many politicians, and athletes and the death place of many writers, and religious figures.

Saint Lucia is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. The island was previously called Iouanalao and later Hewanorra, names given by the native Arawaks and Caribs (respectively), two Amerindian peoples. Part of the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the island of Saint Vincent, northwest of Barbados and south of Martinique. It covers a land area of 617 km2 with an estimated population of over 180,000 people as of 2018. The nation's capital and largest city is Castries. Read more on Wikipedia