Dominica Parishes

Dominica is a small, mountainous island in the Lesser Antilles, between Guadeloupe and Martinique, and it is divided into ten parishes. Each is named for a saint, which makes them easy to mix up and worth learning on a map. Not to be confused with the Dominican Republic, which is a different country on a different island.

The quiz: Name to place, on the map
Grouped by: North, middle and south
In the game: 10 parishs

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What you are looking at

The ten parishes of today, named as Dominica names them, all of them saints. The island is long and narrow, so the parishes are slices of it. Most run from the Caribbean coast on the west up to the central mountain spine, and a few reach the Atlantic side. Roseau, the capital, lies in the south-west, and the parishes around it are some of the smallest on the map.

The groups are not an official classification. They are three stretches of the island, taken from north to south, a way to learn the map a piece at a time.

How to place one

Start with the size. The parishes of the north and the east are broad, and those in the south-west are small slivers. Saint Luke and Saint Mark are the smallest, and they sit together at the bottom of the island.
Work down the west coast. The parishes line up along the Caribbean side one after another, so once you know the first, the rest follow in order.
Then the east. The parishes on the Atlantic side are the broad ones, much wider than those on the west.