About Trinidad and Tobago:
- It is an island country of the southeastern West Indies.
- It is the 5th largest island country in the West Indies and the most industrialised and prosperous nation in the Caribbean.
- Forming the two southernmost links in the Caribbean chain, it lies close to the continent of South America, northeast of Venezuela and northwest of Guyana.
- It consists of two main islands—Trinidad and Tobago—and several smaller islands.
- Trinidad – the larger of the two islands, is crisscrossed by mountain ranges; the most dominant of these is the Northern Range, which is a continuation of the Andes
- It comprises beautiful waterfalls such as the famous 91-metre-high Blue Basin and Maracas Falls.
- The country is home to the Pitch Lake, one of the world’s largest natural asphalt deposits.
- It achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1962 and obtained membership in the Commonwealth and the United Nations that same year.
- It became a republic in 1976.
- The capital is Port of Spain, located on the northwestern coast of Trinidad.
- Language:
- Although English is the official language, most people speak Trinidad English, a creole language.
- A few people, mostly in rural areas, speak a French-derived creole, Spanish, or Caribbean Hindustani (a dialect of Hindi).
