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Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago is a twin-island Caribbean republic just off Venezuela, the birthplace of calypso, soca and steel-pan music, and famous for one of the world's most spectacular Carnival celebrations.
- Capital
- Port of Spain
- Population
- 1.4M
- Currency
- Trinidad and Tobago Dollar (TTD)
- Continent
- North America
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Africa
- Countries
- 54
- Population
- 1.4B
- Land area
- 30.4M km²
49
Asia
- Countries
- 49
- Population
- 4.7B
- Land area
- 44.6M km²
44
Europe
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- 44
- Population
- 748M
- Land area
- 10.2M km²
23
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- 23
- Population
- 604M
- Land area
- 24.7M km²
12
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- 12
- Population
- 434M
- Land area
- 17.8M km²
14
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- Population
- 45M
- Land area
- 8.5M km²
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% of daily forex turnover
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- 2 Euro 31%
- 3 Japanese Yen 17%
- 4 Pound Sterling 13%
- 5 Chinese Yuan 7%
- 6 Australian Dollar 7%
Most-spoken languages
Total speakers (billions)
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- 2 Mandarin 1.1B
- 3 Hindi 602M
- 4 Spanish 548M
- 5 French 274M
- 6 Arabic 274M
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Population (billions)
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- 2 China 1.41B
- 3 United States 335M
- 4 Indonesia 278M
- 5 Pakistan 241M
- 6 Nigeria 224M
World religions
Adherents (billions)
- 1 CH Christianity 2.4B
- 2 IS Islam 1.9B
- 3 — Unaffiliated 1.2B
- 4 HI Hinduism 1.2B
- 5 BU Buddhism 507M
- 6 FO Folk religions 430M
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