Recognised as Country

Barbados

BB
North America
BBD
.bb

Barbados (BB/BRB) is a country in North America with its capital at Bridgetown. It covers about 430 km² with a population of roughly 280,000, uses the BBD, dials on +1246, owns the .bb internet domain and keeps its capital on America/Barbados. It has no land borders.

Identity

Official short nameBarbados

CapitalBridgetown

ContinentNorth America

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2BB

ISO 3166-1 alpha-3BRB

Internet TLD.bb

Calling code+1246

Currency codeBBD

Geography

Approximate centre13.1939, -59.5432a representative point, not a calculated centroid

Latitude13.1939° N

Longitude59.5432° W

HemisphereNorthern and Western

Area430 km²166 square miles

Land neighboursNone, it has no land borders

Distance from London6,767 kmto the approximate centre of Barbados, not to Bridgetown. WSW, bearing 253.7°

Antipode-13.1939, 120.4568the point on the exact opposite side of the Earth

Time

These values depend on today’s date and change daily.

Time zone of the capitalAmerica/Barbadosthe IANA zone for Bridgetown; a large country spans several zones

Standard offsetUTC-04:00

Observes daylight savingNothe offset is the same all year

Offset in JanuaryUTC-04:00

Offset in JulyUTC-04:00

Current offsetUTC-04:00

Local time now22 Sept 2026, 10:25

Hours ahead of UTC-4

Population & scale

Population280,000≈estimate, 2024 edition, extended to all 196 states in September 2026. Population and area are the latest available national or UN estimates, rounded, and are not exact

Population density651.2 per km²≈

Share of world population0.003%≈against a world population of about 8.1 billion

Area rank in this dataset184 of 196

Population rank in this dataset175 of 196

About this data

Dataset version2024 edition, extended to all 196 states in September 2026. Population and area are the latest available national or UN estimates, rounded, and are not exact

Time zone sourcethe IANA time zone database, via the platform

Last updated2026-09-10

StabilityISO codes, TLDs and calling codes are stable; population and area are estimates that change

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