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Barbados

Barbados is an island in the region, but which lies out in the Atlantic many miles east of the Caribbean Sea. Its nearest neighbours 100 miles west are Saint Vincent and Saint Lucia, part of the arc of the Lesser Antilles that separate Atlantic and Caribbean.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Bridgetown and Southern Barbados.

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is the capital and only city of Barbados. In 2026 it had a population of 84,700, about half the island's population, and many more commute in.

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is one of the main tourist bases of Barbados. Starting just beyond the Garrison Savannah district of Bridgetown, the parish of Christ Church is a strip of hotels, bars and restaurants along Highway 7, one long traffic jam honking its way through Hastings, Worthing, Rockley, Saint Lawrence, Oistins and Silver Sands.

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is the least developed and most scenic part of Barbados, and comprises the parishes of Saint Andrew, Saint George, Saint John, Saint Joseph and Saint Thomas.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Western Barbados.

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is the area of Barbados that lies north of Bridgetown and comprises the parishes of Saint James, Saint Peter and Saint Lucy. This is the west-facing, most sheltered coast, so it's the best for family beach holidays, and has the highest concentration of hotels.

Barbados

Latitude of center
13.154° or 13° 9′ 14″ north
Longitude of center
-59.56° or 59° 33′ 36″ west
Population
287,000
Area
431 km² (166 miles²)
Elevation
222 metres (728 feet)
Capital
Currency
Dollar (BBD)
Phone code
.bb
Internet domain
+1-246
Open­Street­Map ID
node 249399285
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
3374084
Wiki­data ID
Q244
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Barbados” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Барбадос”
  • Afrikaans: “Barbados”
  • Akan: “Baabados”
  • Albanian: “Barbados”
  • Albanian: “Barbadosi”
  • Amharic: “ባርቤዶስ”
  • Amis: “Barbados”
  • Angika: “बार्बादोस”
  • Arabic: “البربادوس”
  • Arabic: “باربادوس”
  • Arabic: “باربيدوس”
  • Arabic: “بربادوس”
  • Arabic: “بربيدوس”
  • Aragonese: “Barbados”
  • Armenian: “Բարբադոս”
  • Arpitan: “Barbâda”
  • Assamese: “বাৰ্বাডোচ”
  • Asturian: “Barbados”
  • Atayal: “Barbados”
  • Aymara: “Barbados”
  • Azerbaijani: “Barbados”
  • Balinese: “Barbados”
  • Bambara: “Barbadi”
  • Bashkir: “Барбадос”
  • Basque: “Barbados”
  • Basque: “bb”
  • Basque: “BB”
  • Bavarian: “Barbados”
  • Belarusian: “Барбадас”
  • Bengali: “বারবাডোস”
  • Bengali: “বারবাদোস”
  • Bengali: “বার্বাডোস”
  • Betawi: “Barbados”
  • Bhojpuri: “बारबाडोस”
  • Bishnupriya: “বার্বাডোস”
  • Bislama: “Babados”
  • Bosnian: “Barbados”
  • Breton: “Barbados”
  • Bulgarian: “Барбадос”
  • Bulgarian: “Барбейдос”
  • Burmese: “ဘာဘေးဒိုးစ်”
  • Burmese: “ဘာဘေးဒိုးစ်နိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Barbados”
  • Catalan: “bb”
  • Catalan: “BB”
  • Cebuano: “Barbados”
  • Central Bikol: “Barbados”
  • Central Kurdish: “باربادۆس”
  • Chavacano: “Barbados”
  • Chechen: “Барбадос”
  • Cherokee: “ᏆᏇᏙᏍ”
  • Chinese: “Barbados”
  • Chinese: “巴巴多斯 / 巴貝多”
  • Chinese: “巴巴多斯”
  • Chinese: “巴貝多”
  • Chuvash: “Барбадос”
  • Cornish: “Barbados”
  • Corsican: “Barbada”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Barbados”
  • Croatian: “Barbados”
  • Czech: “Barbados”
  • Dagbani: “Barbados”
  • Danish: “Barbados”
  • Dhivehi: “ބާބަޑޮސް”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Barbados”
  • Dotyali: “बार्बाडोस”
  • Dutch: “Barbados”
  • Dutch: “BB”
  • Dutch: “BRB”
  • Dzongkha: “བྷར་བེ་ཌོས”
  • Eastern Mari: “Барбадос”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باربيدوس”
  • Erzya: “Барбадос”
  • Esperanto: “Barbado”
  • Esperanto: “BB”
  • Estonian: “Barbados”
  • Ewe: “Barbados nutome”
  • Ewe: “Barbados”
  • Extremaduran: “Barbaus”
  • Faroese: “Barbados”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Barbados”
  • Finnish: “Barbados”
  • French: “Barbade”
  • French: “bb”
  • French: “BB”
  • French: “brb”
  • French: “la Barbade”
  • Fulah: “Barbadoos”
  • Gagauz: “Barbados”
  • Galician: “Barbados”
  • Ganda: “Barabadosi”
  • Georgian: “ბარბადოსი”
  • German: “Barbados”
  • German: “BB”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Barbados”
  • Gilaki: “باربادؤس”
  • Goan Konkani: “Barbados”
  • Goan Konkani: “बार्बाडोस”
  • Greek: “Μπαρμπάντος”
  • Greek: “Μπαρμπέιντος”
  • Guarani: “Varvado”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Barbad”
  • Gujarati: “બારબાડોસ”
  • Gujarati: “બાર્બાડોસ”
  • Haitian: “Lababad”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Barbados”
  • Hausa: “Barbadas”
  • Hausa: “Barbados”
  • Hebrew: “ברבדוס”
  • Hebrew: “המשפט בברבדוס”
  • Hindi: “बारबाडोस”
  • Hungarian: “Barbados”
  • Icelandic: “Barbados”
  • Ido: “Barbados”
  • Igbo: “Barbados”
  • Iloko: “Barbados”
  • Inari Sami: “Barbados”
  • Indonesian: “Barbados”
  • Interlingua: “Barbados”
  • Interlingue: “Barbados”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐸᕐᐹᑐᔅ”
  • Irish: “Barbadós”
  • Italian: “Barbados”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Baabiedoz”
  • Japanese: “バルバドス”
  • Javanese: “Barbadhos”
  • Kabyle: “Barbados”
  • Kalaallisut: “Barbados”
  • Kalmyk: “Барбадосин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಬಾರ್ಬಡೋಸ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Barbados”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Барбадос”
  • Kashmiri: “باربیڈاس”
  • Kashmiri: “बार्बाडोस”
  • Kazakh: “Барбадос”
  • Khmer: “បាបាដុស”
  • Khmer: “បារបាដូស”
  • Kikuyu: “Babadosi”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Barubadosi”
  • Kirghiz: “Барбадос”
  • Komi: “Барбадос”
  • Korean: “바베이도스”
  • Kurdish: “Barbados”
  • Kurdish: “باربادۆس”
  • Ladin: “Barbados”
  • Ladino: “Barbados”
  • Lao: “ບາບາຄັອດ”
  • Lao: “ບາບາໂດສ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດບາກບາດິດ”
  • Latin: “Barbata”
  • Latvian: “Barbadosa”
  • Ligurian: “Barbados”
  • Limburgan: “Barbados”
  • Lingala: “Barbados”
  • Lingala: “Barɛbadɛ”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Barbados”
  • Literary Chinese: “巴貝多”
  • Lithuanian: “Barbadosas”
  • Livvi: “Barbados”
  • Lombard: “Barbados”
  • Low German: “Barbados”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Barbados”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Barebade”
  • Lule Sami: “Barbadåvsså”
  • Luxembourgish: “Barbados”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Barbados”
  • Macedonian: “Барбадос”
  • Madurese: “Barbados”
  • Malagasy: “Barbady”
  • Malay: “Barbados”
  • Malayalam: “ബർബാഡോസ്”
  • Malayalam: “ബാര്‍ബഡോസ്”
  • Malayalam: “ബാർബഡോസ്”
  • Malayalam: “ബാർബേഡോസ്”
  • Maltese: “Barbados”
  • Maltese: “Barbejdos”
  • Manipuri: “ꯕꯥꯔꯕꯥꯗꯣꯁ”
  • Manx: “Barbados”
  • Maori: “Pāpatohe”
  • Marathi: “बार्बाडोस”
  • Mazanderani: “باربادوس”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Barbados”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Barbados”
  • Minangkabau: “Barbados”
  • Mingrelian: “ბარბადოსი”
  • Mirandese: “Barbados”
  • Moksha: “Барбадос”
  • Mongolian: “Барбадос”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “باربادوس”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “باربادوص”
  • Nauru: “Barbadot”
  • Navajo: “Hashkʼaan Bikéyah”
  • Nepali: “बार्बाडोस”
  • Newari: “बार्बाडोस”
  • North Ndebele: “Bhabhadosi”
  • Northern Frisian: “Barbaados”
  • Northern Sami: “Barbados”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Barbados”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Barbados”
  • Norwegian: “Barbados”
  • Novial: “Barbados”
  • Obolo: “Babadọs”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Barbada”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Barbados”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Barbados”
  • Oriya: “Barbados”
  • Oriya: “ବାରବାଡସ”
  • Oriya: “ବାରବାଡୋସ”
  • Oriya: “ବାରବାଡୋସ୍”
  • Oromo: “Baarbeedoos”
  • Ossetian: “Барбадос”
  • Pali: “बार्बाडोस”
  • Pampanga: “Barbados”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਾਰਬਾਡੋਸ”
  • Papiamento: “Barbados”
  • Persian: “باربادوس”
  • Picard: “Barbade”
  • Piemontese: “Barbados”
  • Piemontese: “Barbàdos”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Barbados”
  • Polish: “Barbados”
  • Polish: “BB”
  • Portuguese: “Barbados”
  • Pushto: “باربادوس”
  • Quechua: “Barbados”
  • Quechua: “Barbatus”
  • Quechua: “Parpathus”
  • Romanian: “Barbados”
  • Romansh: “Barbados”
  • Rundi: “Barubadosi”
  • Russia Buriat: “Барбадос”
  • Russian: “Барбадос”
  • Rusyn: “Барбадос”
  • Sakizaya: “Barbados”
  • Samoan: “Barbados”
  • Samogitian: “Barbaduosos”
  • Sango: “Barabâda”
  • Sanskrit: “बार्बाडोस”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱟᱨᱵᱟᱰᱚᱥ”
  • Sardinian: “Barbados”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Barbados”
  • Scots: “Barbados”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Barbados”
  • Serbian: “Barbados”
  • Serbian: “Барбадос”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Barbados”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းပႃးပေႇတူတ်ႈ”
  • Shona: “Barbados”
  • Sicilian: “Barbados”
  • Silesian: “Barbados”
  • Sindhi: “بارباڊوس”
  • Sindhi: “باربڊوس”
  • Sinhala: “බාබඩෝස්”
  • Sinhala: “බාර්බඩෝස්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Barbados”
  • Slovak: “Barbados”
  • Slovenian: “Barbados”
  • Somali: “Baarbadoos”
  • Somali: “Barbados”
  • Somali: “Barbeydos”
  • South Azerbaijani: “باربادوس”
  • Spanish: “Barbados”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴱⴰⵔⴱⴰⴷⵓⵙ”
  • Sundanese: “Barbados”
  • Swahili: “Babadosi”
  • Swahili: “Barbados”
  • Swahili: “Barbadosi”
  • Swati: “IBhadosi”
  • Swedish: “Barbados”
  • Swiss German: “Barbados”
  • Tachelhit: “Barbadus”
  • Tagalog: “Barbados”
  • Tajik: “Барбадос”
  • Tamil: “பார்படாஸ்”
  • Tamil: “பார்படோசு”
  • Tamil: “பார்படோஸ்”
  • Taroko: “Barbados”
  • Tatar: “Барбадос”
  • Telugu: “బార్బడోస్”
  • Tetum: “Barbadus”
  • Thai: “บาร์เบโดส”
  • Thai: “ประเทศบาร์เบโดส”
  • Tibetan: “བར་བ་ཌོ་སི།”
  • Tibetan: “བཱརྦ་ཌོས྄།”
  • Tigrinya: “ባርባዶስ”
  • Tigrinya: “ባርቤዶስ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Babedos”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Pāpeitosi”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Barbados”
  • Tumbuka: “Barbados”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “باربادوس”
  • Turkish: “Barbados”
  • Turkmen: “Barbados”
  • Udmurt: “Барбадос”
  • Uighur: “باربادوس”
  • Ukrainian: “Барбадос”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Barbados”
  • Urdu: “باربادوس”
  • Urdu: “بارباڈوس”
  • Uzbek: “Barbados”
  • Venetian: “Barbados”
  • Veps: “Barbados”
  • Vietnamese: “Bác-ba-đốt”
  • Vietnamese: “Barbados”
  • Vietnamese: “bb”
  • Vietnamese: “BB”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Barbados”
  • Vlax Romani: “Barbados”
  • Volapük: “Barbadeän”
  • Võro: “Barbados”
  • Walloon: “Barbåde”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Barbados”
  • Welsh: “Barbados”
  • Western Armenian: “Պարպատոս”
  • Western Balochi: “باربادوس”
  • Western Frisian: “Barbados”
  • Western Mari: “Барбадос”
  • Western Panjabi: “باربادوس”
  • Wolof: “Barbad”
  • Wolof: “Barbados”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴巴多斯”
  • Yakut: “Барбадос”
  • Yiddish: “בארבאדאס”
  • Yiddish: “באַרבאַדאס”
  • Yoruba: “Bábádósì”
  • Yoruba: “Bárbádọ̀s”
  • Yoruba: “Orílẹ́ède Bábádósì”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴巴多斯”
  • Zeeuws: “Barbados”
  • Zhuang: “Barbados”
  • Zulu: “i-Barbados”
  • “Barbados”
  • “Barbaduosos”
  • “BB”
  • “BRB”
  • “ma Papeto”
  • “बारबाडोस”

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