1- The highest point in Barbados is 1,100 feet. This doesn’t even compare to the tallest building in the world which is 2,700 feet high!

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

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

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

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

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

7- Barbados is the 16th most densely populated country.

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

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

10- 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.