Map of Barbados

Barbados is located in North America. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 13.2° N, 59.5° W. It is an island nation and shares no land borders with any other country, so every approach to it is made by sea or by air. Within North America, a continent of 23 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, Barbados is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Barbados is an island state with no land borders. The nearest countries are reached across open water rather than over a shared frontier.

Barbados covers about 430 km² (166 sq mi). That makes it the 185th-largest country in the world by area and the 20th-largest in North America, larger by area than 3 of the continent’s 23 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 267,800, the 176th-largest in the world and the 17th-largest in North America, accounting for about 0.0% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Barbados has an average population density of about 623 people per km². Among the 23 countries of North America it stands 17th by population and 20th by area.

The seat of government is Bridgetown, and the official currency is the Barbadian dollar (BBD, $), and the main official language is English. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC-04:00.

Barbados carries the ISO country codes BB and BRB, dials on the international calling code +1246 and uses the .bb internet domain.

Barbados has no land neighbours. It is an island nation, so the countries nearest to it are reached across open water rather than over a shared border. Its position at 13.2° N, 59.5° W places it about 1,462 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres, within the wider region of North America.

The interactive map above is centred on 13.2° N, 59.5° W and opens at zoom level 10, framing Barbados within North America. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Bridgetown. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Barbados lies about 1,462 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres of the globe. As an island, its full extent is best seen by zooming out to take in the surrounding sea.

Barbados keeps a single standard time zone, UTC-04:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit -04:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Barbadian dollar (BBD, $).

The official language is English, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the left-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +1246 and websites commonly use the .bb internet domain.

In short, Barbados is an island nation in North America, with no land borders. Its capital is Bridgetown. Barbados has a population of about 267,800 and covers around 430 km² (166 sq mi), ranking it 176th in the world by population and 185th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Barbados.

The flag of Barbados is composed of three equal vertical bands of ultramarine, gold and ultramarine. The head of a black trident is centered in the gold band.

The flag of Barbados is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.