Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago (officially Republic of Trinidad and Tobago) is a country in Caribbean, with its capital at Port of Spain, and is home to roughly 1.4M people.
English is the official language; the currency in circulation is Trinidad and Tobago dollar ($); people from here are called Trinidadian.
- »Pitch Lake is the largest natural deposit of asphalt in the world.
- »The steelpan was developed here and is often called the only acoustic instrument invented in the 20th century.
Trinidad and Tobago shares no land border with anything, so every approach is by sea or air. The closest other territories on file are Grenada (193 km), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (315 km) and Barbados (360 km), measured centre to centre.
Port of Spain hosted the short-lived West Indies Federation and is the home of the steelpan and of one of the largest carnivals in the world.
5,152 km² (1,989 sq mi), 168th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Cyprus.
Population 1,368,333, 155th of 198 on file. That averages 266 per km² (688 per sq mi).
The black diagonal on red, edged in white, stands for the energy and dedication of the people, the fire of the sun, and the sea surrounding the islands.