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Barbados
Barbados is a country in Caribbean. Its capital city is Bridgetown. About 287 thousand people live there, in an area of 430 square kilometres.
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Where is Barbados?
Barbados lies in Caribbean, on the continent of Americas.
It sits in the northern half of the world, roughly 1 466 km from the equator.
Its coastline is about 97 km long.
It has no land neighbours — every border it has is with the sea.
How big is Barbados?
Barbados covers 430 square kilometres.
Luxembourg is about 6 times bigger.
Among the world's countries that makes it the 182nd largest.
If everybody spread out evenly, there would be about 666.6 people on every square kilometre.
Who lives in Barbados?
About 287 thousand people live in Barbados.
That is the 173rd biggest population in the world.
People here speak English.
They pay with the Barbadian dollar ($).
On average, people born here can expect to live about 73 years.
The land of Barbados
Its coast runs for about 97 km. Walking it end to end, at twenty kilometres a day, would take roughly 5 days.
It lies inside the tropics, which is the single biggest reason its weather is the way it is.
What makes Barbados different?
A dish the country is known for: Cou-Cou and Flying Fish.
Websites from here often end in .bb.
Barbados and the rest of the world
Out of every thousand people alive on Earth, about 0 live in Barbados.
It takes up about 0 % of all the land that countries stand on.
Within Americas it is the 32nd largest of 35 countries, and the 29th most populated.
That is busier than the world average of roughly 60 people per square kilometre.
Where this country lands in the record lists
Questions children ask
What is the capital of Barbados?
The capital of Barbados is Bridgetown. It is the city where the country's government works from.
How many people live in Barbados?
About 287 thousand people live in Barbados, which makes it the 173rd most populated country in the world. (Source: World Bank, 2018.)
How big is Barbados?
Barbados covers 430 square kilometres, making it the 182nd largest country in the world. Luxembourg is about 6 times bigger.
Which continent is Barbados in?
Barbados is in Americas, in the part called Caribbean.
Where these numbers come from
Borders and outlines: Natural Earth. Names, capitals, areas, languages and currencies: ISO 3166 data (world-countries). Population: World Bank, 2018. Every derived figure on this page (ranks, density, distance from the equator) is calculated from those values.
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