FAST FACTS

• Name: Trinidad and Tobago
• Capital City: Port of Spain (45,300 pop.)
• Trinidad and Tobago Population:
  (2010 est.)
• World Populations (all countries)
• Currency: Trinidad and Tobago Dollar
  (conversion rates)
  
  
  Trinidad and Tobago Dollar
• Ethnicity: Indian (South Asian) 40%, African 37.5%, mixed 20.5%, other 1.2%, unspecified 0.8% (2000 census)
• GDP total: $27.1 billion (2010 est.)
• GDP per capita: $22,100 (2010 est.)
• Land Sizes
• Language: English (official), Caribbean Hindustani (a dialect of Hindi), French, Spanish, Chinese
• Largest Cities: (by population) Chaguanas, Mon Repos, San Fernando, Port-of-Spain, Arima, Marabella, Point Fortin, Tunapuna, Scarborough, Sangre Grande
• Name: Trinidad's name comes from Christopher Columbus, who visited the island on his third voyage to the New World. He saw what appeared to him as a trinity of hills along the southeastern coast.
  
  Tobago's name is historically thought to have come from the word tobacco.
• National Day: August 31
• Religion: Roman Catholic 26%, Hindu 22.5%, Anglican 7.8%, Baptist 7.2%, Pentecostal 6.8%, Muslim 5.8%, Seventh Day Adventist 4%, other Christian 5.8%, other 10.8%, unspecified 1.4%, none 1.9% (2000 census)
• Symbols

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