Population is about 287,025 people, the 183rd largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 26,747 of everyone alive.
Barbados
Barbados
North America
ยท Caribbean
- ISO codes
- BB ยท BRB
- Density
- 668 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- English
- Currency
- Barbadian dollar (BBD)
- Dial code
- +1246
- Internet domain
- .bb
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 13.1640ยฐ N, 59.5690ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Barbadian
- UN region
- Americas ยท Caribbean
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- High income: nonOECD
- Total GDP
- $5.21B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- None
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By the numbers
How Barbados stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Ten facts about Barbados
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Covers 430 kmยฒ, making it the 201st largest country here.
Population density is about 668 people per kmยฒ, among the most crowded countries in the world.
The capital is Bridgetown, at 13.10ยฐ N, 59.62ยฐ W, with a metropolitan population of about 191,152.
Has no land neighbours - it is an island nation, surrounded entirely by water.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, America/Barbados.
The currency is the Barbadian dollar (BBD, symbol $).
The official language is English.
Dials on +1246 and uses the .bb internet domain.
Local time
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