Christmas Island (Australia): Territory & Major Capital - Statistics & Maps on City Population

The census population of the Christmas Island Territory.

Territory

	Name	Abbr.	Status	Capital	A (km²)	C 2001-08-07 r	C 2006-08-08 r	C 2011-08-09 r
i	Christmas Island	CHR	Terr	The Settlement	136	1,402	1,347	2,072
	Australia	AUS		Canberra	7,702,513	18,769,249	19,855,288	21,507,719

	Name	UA C 2006-08-08 r	UA C 2011-08-09 r
i	The Settlement (Flying Fish Cove)	1,347	1,347

Australian Bureau of Statistics (web).
The discrepancy between the 2011 population of the whole island and of the settlement seems to be caused by the opening of the immigration detention center in 2008.