Barbados has the 23rd highest ratio of cars per miles of road! No wonder there is traffic!

Barbados is the 3rd oldest Parliamentary democracy in the world.

Barbados exports $57 million of rum per year across the world.

The last major hurricane to hit Barbados was Hurricane Janet in 1955.

Barbados got its first name in Portuguese (Los Barbados) reportedly named after the Bearded Fig Tree.

Barbados is the 16th most densely populated country.

The first settlement in Barbados was Holetown which was originally called Jamestown after King James I.

Bridgetown was originally called Indian Bridge and changed to its current name after 1654.

The Lord Nelson Statue, erected on Bridgetown's Trafalgar Square on 22 Mar 1813, is older than the statue and square of the same name and fame in London.