Countries

Barbados

Barbados is a coral island at the eastern edge of the Caribbean, out in the Atlantic beyond the Windward Islands. Independent from Britain since 1966, it became a republic in 2021 and lives largely from tourism and offshore finance.

Weathered coral boulders standing in white surf on the Atlantic shore at Bathsheba, Barbados, with palms along the beach

Bathsheba, on the Atlantic coast

Photo: Balou46, CC BY-SA 4.0

Flag of Barbados
Blue for the sea and sky, gold for the sand. The broken trident head marks the break from colonial rule, taken from the trident of Britannia. Adopted in 1966.

geoBoundaries, CC BY 2.5

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