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CAPITAL Castries
AREA 616 sq km
POPULATION 120,500
LANGUAGE English, French Creole
CURRENCY East Caribbean dollar
TIME GMT-4 hours
TELEPHONE CODES 00 1 758
ELECTRICITY 220/240V, 50Hz
 
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Visas: Visas are not required for citizens of the USA or Commonwealth countries.

Public holidays: New Year's Day; Independence (22 Feb); Good Friday; Easter Monday; May Day; Whit Monday; Corpus Christi (June); Emancipation (Aug); Thanksgiving (Oct); St Lucia Day (13 Dec); Christmas Day; Boxing Day.

Good buys: Rum, from the shops in Castries.

Typical food: Breadfruit and jackfish is the national dish. Seafood in abundance (conch, shrimp and lobster are local delicacies) and a heavy West Indian influence: callaloo soup and saltfish.

Interesting fact: St Lucia has produced two Nobel Prize winners, the playwright and poet Derek Walcott (Literature, 1992) and Sir Arthur Lewis (Economics, 1979).
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