CAPITAL: Bridgetown FLAG: The national flag has three equal vertical bands of ultramarine blue, gold, and ultramarine blue and displays a broken trident in black on the center stripe. ANTHEM: National Anthem of Barbados, beginning "In plenty and...

Barbados POPULATION 276,607 ANGLICAN 33 percent PENTECOSTAL 12.7 percent METHODIST 5.9 percent SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST 4.5 percent ROMAN CATHOLIC 4.4 percent OTHER 16.7 percent NOT STATED 22.8 percent Country Overview Introduction When the British first...

island country in the southeastern Caribbean Sea, situated about 100 miles (160 km) east of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Roughly triangular in shape, the island measures some 20 miles (32 km) from northwest to southeast and about 15 miles (25 km)...

Barbados Barbados is a relatively flat island of 1,116 square kilometers (431 square miles), three times the size of the U.S. District of Columbia) with a population of more than 275,000. Ninety percent of the population is of African origin. Its...

Island country, West Indies. The most easterly of the Caribbean islands, it lies about 100 mi (160 km) east of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Area: 166 sq mi (430 sq km). Population (2005 est.): 270,000. Capital: Bridgetown. More than nine-tenths of...

Barbados (pronounced /bÉ'rËbeɪdoÊz, -dÉ's/[1]), situated just east of the Caribbean Sea, is an independent island nation in the western Atlantic Ocean. At roughly 13° North and 59° West, the country lies in the southern Caribbean region, where it...