'''Saint Lucia''' (, ; ) is an island country in the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. The island was previously called '''Iyonola''', the name given to the island by the native Arawaks, and later '''Hewanorra''', the name given by the native Caribs, two separate Amerindian peoples. Part of the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the island of Saint Vincent, northwest of Barbados and south of Martinique. It covers a land area of  and reported a population of 165,595 in the 2010 census.  Its capital is Castries. Soufrière was colonized by the French and was the original capital of the island.