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This is a list of cities, towns and villages in Barbados. Barbados is a sovereign island country in the Lesser Antilles , in the Americas . It is 34 kilometres (21 miles) in length and up to 23 km (14 mi) in width, covering an area of 432 km 2 (167 sq mi).
The Atlantic Time Zone is a geographical region that keeps standard time—called Atlantic Standard Time (AST)—by subtracting four hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), resulting in UTC−04:00. AST is observed in parts of North America and some Caribbean islands. During part of the year, some portions of the zone observe daylight ...
Barbados (UK: / bɑːrˈbeɪdɒs / bar-BAY-doss; US: / bɑːrˈbeɪdoʊs / bar-BAY-dohss; locally / bɑːrˈbeɪdəs / bar-BAY-dəss) is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region next to North America and north of South America, and is the most easterly of the Caribbean islands.
In the IANA time zone database, Barbados is given one zone in the file zone.tab—America/Barbados. "BB" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.Data for Barbados directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself: [2]
Barbados is considered the birthplace of rum, and it’s best known distillery, Mount Gay, has records dating back to 1703. For an introduction to its story, book a tour and tasting at the Mount ...
an island country. a nation state. a republic in the Commonwealth of Nations. Coastline: 97 km. Population of Barbados: 287,711 - 174th most populous country. Area of Barbados: 431 square kilometres (166 sq mi) - 199th largest country. Atlas of Barbados.
The coast of Venezuela, South America and Barbados. Barbados' total land area is 439 km 2 (169.5 sq mi), [4] and it has a coastline of 97 km (60 mi) length. [5] The island is sometimes compared to a pear [6] or leg of mutton for its physical shape. Barbados has a maximum north–south length of 34 kilometres (21 mi) and a maximum east–west ...
The Parish of St. Andrew, The Parish of St. George, The Parish of St. John, The Parish of St. Joseph, and. The Parish of St. Philip. Thus Barbados was converted into the current eleven parishes of today corresponding to the earlier church parishes. As was common under the British system, each parish had a single main parishional church (or ...