Christmas Island Cities with Latitude & Longitude – Download in Excel, CSV, SQL, JSON, XML
Last update : 24 March 2026.
Here you’ll find a curated sample of 100 key cities from Christmas Island, each with essential data points such as latitude, longitude, administrative region, and other relevant attributes.
This preview is extracted from our full dataset, which includes a total of 6 geographic locations across Christmas Island.
Whether you’re working on mapping, analytics, or app development, the data is available for both personal and commercial use.
All entries can be downloaded in five formats: Excel (.xlsx), CSV, SQL, JSON, and XML.
Capital Highlight: The official capital city of Christmas Island is Flying Fish Cove.
| Geoname_ID | City | Alternate_Name | Country_Code | Region | Sub_region | Latitude | Longitude | Elevation | Population | Timezone | Fcode_Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2078127 | Flying Fish Cove | Flain-Fish-Kouv,Flaing Fish Kouv,Flajing Fish Kouv,Flajing-Fish-Kouv,Flayinq Fis Kouv,Flayinq Fiş Kouv,Flying Fish Cove,Kampong,The Settlement,fala’iga fisa kova,fei yu wan,flay xing fich khof,flayngh fysh kwf,flayyng fsh kww,peullaingpisikobeu,phla’inga phisa kova,pilaiyin pis kov,plaing-pishi,Флаинг Фиш Коув,Флайинг-Фиш-Коув,Флаін-Фіш-Коўв,Флајинг Фиш Коув,فلائینگ فش کوو,فلاينغ فيش كوف,फ्लाइंग फिश कोव,ਫ਼ਲਾਇੰਗ ਫ਼ਿਸ਼ ਕੋਵ,பிளையிங் பிஷ் கோவ்,ฟลายอิงฟิชโคฟ,ფლაინგ-ფიში,フライング・フィッシュ・コーブ,飞鱼湾,플라잉피시코브 | CX | -10.42172 | 105.67912 | 500 | Indian/Christmas | capital of a political entity | |||
| 2078074 | Waterfall | CX | -10.45719 | 105.70481 | 0 | Indian/Christmas | populated place | ||||
| 11694912 | Poon Saan | CX | -10.42434 | 105.67865 | 0 | Indian/Christmas | populated place | ||||
| 2078091 | Settlement | CX | -10.41517 | 105.6759 | 0 | Indian/Christmas | populated place | ||||
| 2078132 | Drumsite | CX | -10.43249 | 105.67218 | 0 | Indian/Christmas | populated place | ||||
| 8529528 | Silver City | Silver City | CX | -10.42019 | 105.6795 | 0 | Indian/Christmas | populated place |
Christmas Island: Mapping the Geography of a Remote Pacific Enclave
An Isolated Jewel of Volcanic Origins
As a geographer, Christmas Island captivates with its singular blend of geological isolation, administrative uniqueness, and ecological richness. Floating in the eastern Indian Ocean, far removed from the Australian mainland to which it belongs politically, this island feels more like a self-contained world than a territory. Its dramatic cliffs, dense rainforests, and coral-fringed coastlines offer more than scenic beauty—they reflect a tightly knit relationship between geography, human settlement, and spatial data. Understanding these dynamics requires access to structured, accurate, and current datasets—especially in the universally accessible Excel (xlsx) format, now newly included in our data offering.
The Settlement Pattern of Christmas Island
Despite its small size, Christmas Island exhibits a surprisingly layered geography of human habitation. Administrative divisions here are subtle yet essential. Small settlements like Flying Fish Cove, Silver City, Drumsite, and Poon Saan each play a role in the socio-spatial fabric of the island. Each town carries a distinct historical and functional footprint, shaped by mining, migration, and maritime access.
Our dataset catalogues these cities and towns in relation to their respective regions and departmental affiliations. Though compact, the island’s administrative mapping is key to understanding land use, population movement, and public service logistics in remote geographies. Researchers, developers, and planners alike will find this structure indispensable.
Pinpointing Geography: Latitude and Longitude Accuracy
For such an isolated location, the precision of geographic coordinates becomes crucial. Whether for marine navigation, environmental conservation, or disaster preparedness, the need to map each urban location with pinpoint accuracy is more than academic—it’s practical.
Our dataset delivers exact latitude and longitude for every city and settlement on Christmas Island. These coordinates, integrated into every file format, allow users to overlay data on digital maps, simulate evacuation plans, or calculate distances to supply hubs or ecological zones. We withhold the raw coordinates from this article but emphasize their presence in the downloadable files for deep spatial analysis.
Excel Format: Making Island Geography Intuitive and Accessible
The recent addition of Excel (xlsx) format brings unprecedented ease of use to our Christmas Island database. For geographers, Excel remains a preferred platform for sorting, filtering, and visualizing structured data without needing advanced GIS tools. Want to compare elevation patterns across towns? Create a pivot table in seconds. Need to map settlement spread by administrative zone? Excel makes it effortless.
Christmas Island’s geographic data becomes far more usable when presented in a familiar, flexible spreadsheet environment. And because Excel is widely adopted in academia, government, and private sector contexts, it bridges expertise levels—from students to seasoned analysts.
Multi-Format Data for Technical Versatility
While Excel leads in accessibility, our database also caters to developers and data engineers with exports in CSV, SQL, JSON, and XML. This versatility ensures seamless integration into backend systems, mobile apps, or statistical software. JSON and XML support real-time APIs and web applications. SQL is perfect for creating normalized relational datasets for more complex geographic models. CSV remains ideal for fast imports into virtually any data platform.
But again, if your priority is clarity, visual exploration, and broad compatibility, the Excel format stands as the gateway to meaningful geographic insight.
A Geographic Treasure Waiting to Be Understood
Christmas Island might appear modest in size, but its spatial narrative is rich, layered, and worthy of methodical exploration. From the coral reefs to phosphate plateaus, from tropical bird colonies to human settlements tucked into hillsides, every coordinate on this island tells a story.
With our complete dataset—cities, regions, departments, and precise coordinates—now available in Excel and other formats, we offer you the tools to uncover these stories yourself. It’s not just a collection of names and numbers—it’s a foundation for real geographic insight into one of the planet’s most intriguing enclaves.
