Trinidad and Tobago

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Cities Trinidad and Tobago  
Country information country code: TT
continent: North America
capital: Port-of-Spain
languages: English

EU membership: no
NATO membership: no

GSM: 1800
GPS: 11 00 N, 61 00 W
electricity: 115V/60Hz

currency:
Trinidad and Tobago Dollar: TTD
1TTD = 0.160 USD
1TTD = 0.126 EUR

phone code: +1868

Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

Tuesday 19, March

From wikipedia about Trinidad and Tobago

The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic stateArchipelagic Waters and Exclusive Economic Zone Act No 24 of 1986 in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles. It shares maritime boundaries with other nations including Barbados to the northeast, Guyana to the southeast, and Venezuela to the south and west.

The country covers an area and consists of two main islands, Trinidad and Tobago, and numerous smaller landforms. Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the main islands, comprising about 94% of the total area and 96% of the total population of the country. The nation lies outside the hurricane belt.

The island of Trinidad was a Spanish colony from the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1498 to the capitulation of the Spanish Governor, Don José Maria Chacón, on the arrival of a British fleet of 18 warships on February 18, 1797. Carmichael (1961), pp. 40–42. During the same period, the island of Tobago changed hands between Spanish, British, French, Dutch and Courlander colonizers. Trinidad and Tobago was ceded to Britain in 1802 under the Treaty of Amiens. Carmichael (1961), p. 52. The country obtained independence in 1962, becoming a republic in 1976. Unlike most of the English-speaking Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago's economy is primarily industrial, with an emphasis on petroleum and petrochemicals.

Trinidad and Tobago is known for its Carnival and is the birthplace of steelpan, Hill (1983), pp. 203–209. calypso, Hill (1983), pp. 8–10. See also, p. 284, n. 1. Quevedo (1983), pp. 2–14. soca, and limbo.
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