Barbados
Barbados is a country in Caribbean, with its capital at Bridgetown, and is home to roughly 282.5K people.
English is the official language; the currency in circulation is Barbadian dollar ($); people from here are called Barbadian.
> INTEL_
> NOTABLE_
- »Barbados removed the British monarch as head of state and became a republic in 2021.
> BORDERS_
Barbados shares no land border with anything, so every approach is by sea or air. The closest other territories on file are Saint Lucia (172 km), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (177 km) and Grenada (258 km), measured centre to centre.
> THE CAPITAL_
Bridgetown keeps a rare survival: its Garrison area holds one of the largest collections of British colonial military architecture in the Americas.
> SCALE_
446 km² (172 sq mi), 184th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Andorra.
Population 282,467, 177th of 198 on file. That averages 633 per km² (1,640 per sq mi).
> THE FLAG_
The broken trident recalls the trident of Britannia on the colonial badge, the shaft deliberately snapped to mark the break from Britain in 1966.