Ascension Island
Ascension Island (AC) is a country. The currency is the St. Helena Pound (SHP, SHP). The international dialling code is +247; mobile numbers are written like 40123. Main language: English.
CurrencySHPSHP
Dial code+247e.g. 40123
LanguageEnglish
Population940
Overview
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- AC
- Groups
- Outlying Oceania
- Population
- 940
- GDP
- $50.8M ($54K per person)
- Literacy
- 99%
Currency
St. Helena Pound SHP
- Symbol
- SHP narrow £
- Minor units
- 2 decimals
- Example
- SHP 1,234.50
Languages
| Language | Status | Share of population | Writing |
|---|---|---|---|
| English en | 99% (930.6) |
Time zones
No time zones listed.
Phone numbers
- Calling code
- +247
- Dial-out prefix
- 00
- Trunk prefix
- none
- National number length
- 5–6 digits
- Emergency number
- 911 pattern 9(?:11|99)
Number types
| Type | National format | International format | Layout | Digits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fixed line | 62889 | +247 62889 | XXXXX | 5 |
| Mobile | 40123 | +247 40123 | XXXXX | 5 |
| Universal access | 542011 | +247 542011 | XXXXXX | 6 |
Address and postal code
Address layout
{Name}
{Organization}
{Street address}
{City}
{Postal code}
No data.
Postal code
- Pattern
ASCN 1ZZ- Examples
- ASCN 1ZZ
Calendar, units and conventions
- First day of the week
- Monday
- Weekend
- Saturday to Sunday
- First week of the year
- Contains at least 1 day of the new year
- Hour cycle
- 24-hour (0–23), also h, hb, hB
- Calendars
- gregorian
- Measurement system
- Metric
- Temperature
- Celsius
- Paper size
- A4
- Locales
- None in CLDR
Number and date formats
As written by the English (Ascension Island) locale (en-AC), amounts in SHP.
- Number
- 1,234,567.891
- Percent
- 45.7%
- Currency (SHP)
- SHP 1,234,567.89
- Accounting
- (SHP 1,234,567.89)
- Currency, name
- 1,234,567.89 St. Helena pounds
- Compact short
- 1.2M
- Compact long
- 1.2 million
- Scientific
- 1.235E6
- Speed
- 88 kilometers per hour
- Temperature
- 21.5°C
- Date, full
- Friday, March 27, 2026
- Date, long
- March 27, 2026
- Date, medium
- Mar 27, 2026
- Date, short
- 3/27/26
- Time, medium
- 3:04:05 PM
- Time, short
- 3:04 PM
- Date and time
- Mar 27, 2026, 3:04 PM
- Month and year
- March 2026
- Weekday
- Friday
- Relative time
- yesterday · in 3 days · 2 hours ago
- List: and
- A, B, and C
- List: or
- A, B, or C