Montserrat

**Montserrat** is a Caribbean island and a British Overseas Territory. Officially, the capital is Plymouth, but the government has moved to Brades after Chances Peak erupted, destroying Plymouth in 1995.

Before the island was called Montserrat, Kalinago and Taíno people had lived in the region for a long time. They knew it as **Alliouagana**.

Montserrat was colonised mostly by Irish Catholics. They brought many black slaves to the island and forced them to work on sugar plantations. The work the slaves made many plantations grow wealthy. When slavery was made illegal in the 1830s, the British Empire paid all the slave owners.

## Infobox (dependency)

- **name**: Montserrat
- **settlement type**: British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory
- **image flag**: Flag of Montserrat.svg
- **flag size**: 130px
- **image seal**: Coat of arms of Montserrat.svg
- **seal size**: 60px
- **seal type**: Coat of arms
- **motto**: "A people of excellence, moulded by nature, nurtured by God"
- **anthem**: "God Save the King"
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- **song type**: **National song**
- **song**: "National Song of Montserrat, Motherland"
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- **image map**: Montserrat in United Kingdom.svg
- **mapsize**: 290px
- **image map2**: Topographic-map-of-Montserrat-en.svg
- **mapsize2**: 290px
- **map caption2**: Topographic map of Montserrat showing the "exclusion zone" due to volcanic activity, and the new airport in the north. The roads and settlements in the exclusion zone have mostly been conquered by natural forces.
- **subdivision type**: Sovereign state
- **established date**: 1632
- **established title2**: Treaty of Paris (1783), Treaty of Paris
- **established date2**: 3 September 1783
- **established title3**: West Indies Federation, Federation
- **established date3**: 3 January 1958
- **established title4**: Separate colony
- **established date4**: 31 May 1962
- **official languages**: English language, English
- **demonym**: Demographics of Montserrat, Montserratian
- **capital**:
Brades
Little Bay, Montserrat, Little Bay
- **largest city**: Brades
- **government type**: Parliamentary Dependent territory, dependency under a constitutional monarchy
- **leader title1**: Monarchy of the United Kingdom, Monarch
- **leader name1**: Charles III
- **leader title2**: Governor of Montserrat, Governor
- **leader name2**: Harriet Cross (diplomat), Harriet Cross
- **leader title3**: Premier of Montserrat, Premier
- **leader name3**: Reuben Meade
- **legislature**: Legislative Assembly of Montserrat, Legislative Assembly
- **national representation**: Government of the United Kingdom
- **national representation type1**: Minister of State for Europe, North America and Overseas Territories, Minister
- **national representation1**: Stephen Doughty
- **area km2**: 102
- **area sq mi**: 39
- **percent water**: negligible
- **elevation max m**: 1050
- **unit pref**: metric
- **population estimate**: 4,390
- **population census**: 4,649 (intercensal count)
- **population estimate year**: 2022
- **population census year**: 2018
- **population density km2**: 46
- **population density rank**: not ranked
- **population density sq mi**: 114
- **gdp ppp**: US$63 million
- **gdp ppp year**: 2014
- **gdp ppp per capita**: US$12,384
- **gdp nominal**: US$181,680,000
- **gdp nominal year**: 2019
- **currency**: East Caribbean dollar
- **currency code**: XCD
- **timezone**: Atlantic Time Zone, AST
- **utc offset**: -4:00
- **drives on**: left
- **cctld**: .ms
- **website**: https://www.gov.ms/
- **population estimate rank**: 194th
- **iso code**: MS