What is the capital of the Grenadines?

schuhmacher

Hillsborough http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenadines Nov 18 10, 2:41 PM

great2beme

It says Hillsborough is the capital of Carriacou Island. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carriacou The capital of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is Kingstown. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Vincent_and_the_Grenadines Nov 18 10, 6:27 PM

author

The Grenadines are split between St.Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada. The capital of the St.Vincent part of the Grenadines is Port Elizabeth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenadines_Parish,_Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines Nov 18 10, 9:02 PM

McGruff

And the capital of Grenada is St. George's. Well, I'm confused. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._George's,_Grenada From the first link above: The Grenadines is a Caribbean island chain of over 600 islands in the Windward Islands. They are divided between the island nations of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada. They lie between the islands of Saint Vincent in the north and Grenada in the south. Neither Saint Vincent nor Grenada are Grenadine islands. The islands north of the Martinique Channel belong to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and the islands south of the channel belong to Grenada. Nov 19 10, 7:52 AM

author

Well, Port Elizabeth is the capital of the Grenadines parish, St.Vincent and the Grenadines. So we are talking about a local, not a national capital. Kingstown is the national capital of St.Vincent and the Grenadines. Hillsborough is the largest town of the Grenada part of the Grenadines, but I am not sure if it is the "capital" of a parish or another local division. Nov 19 10, 12:26 PM

author

Well, indeed Hillsborough is! The Grenadine Islands of Carriacou and Petite Martinique belong to Grenada and the terrotory is listed as a dependency of Grenada, which is indeed an administrative unit! So Hillsborough is the capital of this unit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carriacou_and_Petite_Martinique Nov 19 10, 12:30 PM