| Summary: | Barbados is a small island some 300 miles north of the closest mainland shore, South America. Its position, 13° North, 59° West, places it to the east of the Antilles, from which it is separated by the Tobago Trench. While located in the North Equatorial Current, it is on the northern edge of the influence of the South Equatorial Current, and is the first island of the West Indian group that these currents pass before entering the Caribbean Sea travelling westward parallel to the shores of South America. The island has an area of 166 square miles, and is roughly triangular in shape, twenty-one miles long and eleven miles wide. The nearly 300,000 people living there make it one of the most heavily populated countries in the world.
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