Map of Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago is located in North America. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 10.7° N, 61.2° W. It is an island nation and shares no land borders with any other country, so every approach to it is made by sea or by air. Within North America, a continent of 23 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, Trinidad and Tobago is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Trinidad and Tobago is an island state with no land borders. The nearest countries are reached across open water rather than over a shared frontier.

Trinidad and Tobago covers about 5,130 km² (1,981 sq mi). That makes it the 167th-largest country in the world by area and the 16th-largest in North America, larger by area than 7 of the continent’s 23 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 1,367,764, the 156th-largest in the world and the 14th-largest in North America, accounting for about 0.2% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Trinidad and Tobago has an average population density of about 267 people per km². Among the 23 countries of North America it stands 14th by population and 16th by area.

The seat of government is Port of Spain, and the official currency is the Trinidad and Tobago dollar (TTD, $), and the main official language is English. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC-04:00.

Trinidad and Tobago carries the ISO country codes TT and TTO, dials on the international calling code +1868 and uses the .tt internet domain.

Trinidad and Tobago has no land neighbours. It is an island nation, so the countries nearest to it are reached across open water rather than over a shared border. Its position at 10.7° N, 61.2° W places it about 1,187 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres, within the wider region of North America.

The interactive map above is centred on 10.7° N, 61.2° W and opens at zoom level 8, framing Trinidad and Tobago within North America. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Port of Spain. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Trinidad and Tobago lies about 1,187 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres of the globe. As an island, its full extent is best seen by zooming out to take in the surrounding sea.

Trinidad and Tobago keeps a single standard time zone, UTC-04:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit -04:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Trinidad and Tobago dollar (TTD, $).

The official language is English, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the left-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +1868 and websites commonly use the .tt internet domain.

In short, Trinidad and Tobago is an island nation in North America, with no land borders. Its capital is Port of Spain. Trinidad and Tobago has a population of about 1,367,764 and covers around 5,130 km² (1,981 sq mi), ranking it 156th in the world by population and 167th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Trinidad and Tobago.

The flag of Trinidad and Tobago has a red field with a white-edged black diagonal band that extends from the upper hoist-side corner to the lower fly-side corner of the field.

The flag of Trinidad and Tobago is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.