Barbados Independence Day

People all across BARBADOS recently celebrated their country's Independence Day on Monday, November 30th. Barbados achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1966. Happy belated Independence Day!

Barbados Exports

The following produce and materials are major exports of BARBADOS: assembled electrical components, chemicals, cotton, fish, manufactured goods, molasses, natural gas, petroleum, rum and other beverages, sugar and sugarcane, and vegetables. According to the International Monetary Fund (data.imf.org), countries and territories buying and importing most of those exports in 2016 include the United States (top importer), Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, China, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, the United Kingdom, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, France, Grenada, Canada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, India, the Bahamas, Panama, Dominica, Cuba, Suriname, and Curaçao.

Coastal Cities

GeoFact of the Day currently has seven country-by-country posts highlighting towns, cities, and communities located next to massive water bodies:

— BARBADOS (↗)
— DOMINICA (↗)
— GHANA (↗)
— GRENADA (↗)
— GUINEA (↗)
— SÉNÉGAL (↗)
— TUNISIA (↗)

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Parishes of Barbados

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Like Antigua and Barbuda featured in the previous post, BARBADOS is administratively divided into parishes. The eleven parishes and administrative divisions of Barbados are Christ Church, Saint Andrew, Saint George, Saint James, Saint John, Saint Joseph, Saint Lucy, Saint Michael, Saint Peter, Saint Philip, and Saint Thomas. Below are the parishes' capital cities:

Christ Church  —  Oistins
St. Andrew  —  Greenland
St. George  —  Bulkeley
St. James  —  Holetown
St. John  —  Four Roads
St. Joseph  —  Bathsheba
St. Lucy  —  Crab Hill
St. Michael  —  Bridgetown (national capital)
St. Peter  —  Speightstown
St. Philip  —  Crane (The Crane)
St. Thomas  —  Hillaby

Coastal Cities of Barbados

Straddling the separation between the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean is the island country BARBADOS, which unsurprisingly features fascinating scenery. Starting in the north then in a clockwise direction, the following Barbadian cities and towns boast a fortunate location along or near the coastline: Crab Hill, Greenland, Belleplaine, Bathsheba, Codrington, Crane, Saint Martins, Seawell, Scarboro (southern coast), Oistins, Saint Lawrence, Worthing, Hastings, Bridgetown (capital), Holetown, Mount Standfast, Speightstown, Six Men's Bay, and Checker Hall.

GeoFact of the Day's Barbados post (↗)

Barbados Endangered Species

As of August 15th, 2014, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ lists 8 critically endangered and 10 endangered species in BARBADOS, a country located in the bow-shaped Lesser Antilles island chain at the eastern edge of the Caribbean Sea. The eight critically endangered species are the Atlantic Goliath Grouper, Elkhorn Coral, Eskimo Curlew bird, Hawksbill Turtle, Smalltooth Sawfish, Staghorn Coral, Warsaw Grouper (Black Grouper), and Atya brachyrhinus shrimp. The IUCN Red List notes that the aforementioned shrimp species may be at extreme risk of extinction; only two examples of this shrimp were found in the years 1963 and 1972.

Discover more about Barbados! (link to my blog post)

Barbados Flag

Being an island country in the Caribbean Sea, BARBADOS incorporates a nautical element on its flag. This element is a trident, the three-pointed spear that gods like Neptune and Poseidon are usually depicted with; colored black, it is featured in the center of the flag. The surrounding vertical stripe is gold (sometimes colored yellow), while the left and right stripes are dark blue.

From my Barbados blog post, this map showcases the flag in the top right.

Barbados

BARBADOS is a single-island country in the Caribbean Sea. Nearby islands include St. Lucia (NW of Barbados), St. Vincent & the Grenadines (W), and Grenada (SW). Barbados is northeast of Venezuela. The capital is Bridgetown, which has over 96,000 inhabitants. The currency is the Barbados Dollar, and its ISO 4217 currency code is BBD.