Sark is an island, part of the Channel Islands in the southwestern English Channel, off the coast of Normandy, France. It is a self-governing British Crown Dependency, with its own set of laws based on Norman law and its own parliament. It was a royal fief until 2008. It has a population of about 500. Sark has an area of 2.10 square miles. Little Sark is a peninsul…
Sark is an island, part of the Channel Islands in the southwestern English Channel, off the coast of Normandy, France. It is a self-governing British Crown Dependency, with its own set of laws based on Norman law and its own parliament. It was a royal fief until 2008. It has a population of about 500. Sark has an area of 2.10 square miles. Little Sark is a peninsula joined by a natural but high and very narrow isthmus to the rest of Sark Island.
Sovereign state: United Kingdom
Crown Dependency: Bailiwick of Guernsey
Feudalism abolished: 9 April 2008
Official languages: English
Government: Self-governing dependency under a parliamentary constitutional monarchy
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