What country and continent is Barbados a part of?

Question

What country and continent is Barbados a part of?

Answer 1

Barbados is a country of it's own.  Barbados is an island in the Caribbean.  It is not a part of a continent.  It's part of the West Indies.

Answer 2

That's a tough one....  Barbados is out in the Atlantic Ocean to east of the Windward Islands. (According to the Government)...  According to the current research known about the island Barbados is 3 huge masses of coral that jutted up from the Ocean floor...

The island is supposedly a part of a mountain range that extends from close to Trinidad and Tobago all the way to Puerto Rico.  The island itself though is the only part of that long mountain range that rises above the sea level though..

Barbados is reckoned to be in North America according to Britain where the islands' constitution calls Barbados a "North Atlantic Territory" (same for the Bahamas.)

Barbados also is a part of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) where the island has the North American area code +1-246-x*x-xxxx.

The island though could also be considered a part of South American since Barbados actually sits (not on the Caribbean Sea techtonic plate) but actually on the South American tectonic plate...

As many people said prior to my comment, the island is pretty much on it's own...  The dialect is different from the rest, the culture has always been different from the rest...  History is different etc...  Britain kept the island fairly self contained historically as the island was the only one in the entire Caribbean never to have changed hands since the British first settled on it in the 1630s etc.

So overall the technical is that Barbados could be North or South American.  However to simplyfy things the United States/Britain and all the rest consider it North American and there's no large movements in Barbados either that call the island South American.

Answer 3

Barbados is a country in its own right. It is part of the Commonwealth.

It is in Central America.

Answer 4

situated just east of the Caribbean Sea, is an independent island nation in the western Atlantic Ocean. At roughly 13° North of the equator and 59° West of the prime meridian, the country lies in the southern Caribbean region, where its considered a part of the Lesser Antilles island-chain. Its closest island neighbours are Saint Vincent and Saint Lucia to the west. To the south lies Trinidad and Tobago—with which Barbados now shares a fixed official maritime boundary—and also the South American mainland. Barbados's total land area is about 430 square kilometres (166 square miles), and is primarily low-lying, with some higher regions in the country's interior. The geological composition of Barbados is thought to be of non-volcanic origin and is predominantly composed of limestone-coral formed by subduction of the South American plate colliding with the Caribbean plate. The island's climate is tropical, with constant trade winds off the Atlantic Ocean serving to keep temperatures mild. Some more undeveloped areas of the country contain tropical woodland and scrubland. Other parts of the interior which contribute to the agriculture industry are dotted with large sugarcane estates and wide, gently sloping pastures, with views down to the coast.

Barbados has one of the highest standards of living and literacy rates worldwide. Barbados's human development index ranking is consistently among the top 50 in the world. For example, in 2006, it was ranked 31st in the world, and third in the Americas, behind Canada and the United States.