What are the features of the country of Barbados?

            Barbados is an island country in the Caribbean region of North America.

            Barbados is one of the more populous and prosperous Caribbean islands. Political, economic and social stability have given it a relatively high standard of living. Its capital and largest city is Bridgetown, which is also the main seaport.

            It has a population of 284,996 people, predominantly of African descent. Barbadians are crazy about afternoon tea, cricket, golfing and scuba diving. The island was a British possession without interruption from the 17th century to 1966, when it attained independence.

            The tropical climate is tempered by an almost constant sea breeze from the northeast in the winter.

            Barbados is host to four species of nesting turtles, and has the second-largest hawksbill turtle breeding population in the Caribbean. The currency of Barbados is the Barbadian dollar.