North America · Caribbean

Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago covers about 5,120 km² (1,980 mi²), the 175th largest of the 246 places listed here. That is close to Cyprus, at about 5,400 km².

5,120km²Area, main territory
1.4 millionPopulation
0.17In Belgiums

50 km

Trinidad and Tobago

Facts

Area, main territory	5,120 km²1,980 mi²
Official area	5,130 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure
In Belgiums	0.17
Capital	Port of Spain
Population	1.4 millionWikidata, 2017
Density	267 people per km²
Latitude range	10°N to 11°N
In other languages	Trinidad y Tobago Español · Trinidad und Tobago Deutsch · Trinité-et-Tobago Français · Trinidad e Tobago Português · トリニダード・トバゴ日本語 · 特立尼达和多巴哥中文 · 트리니다드 토바고 한국어
Continent	North America#17 of 27 countries by area

What the numbers say about Trinidad and Tobago

Russia, the largest place listed, is 3,315× the size of Trinidad and Tobago.
At 267 people per km², Trinidad and Tobago is the 23rd most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
Trinidad and Tobago lies at 10°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.0×.
Laid out flat, Trinidad and Tobago's main territory stretches about 146 km north to south and 154 km east to west.
Wikidata's official figure of 5,130 km² agrees with our measured area of 5,120 km², to within 2%.

How Trinidad and Tobago measures up

Trinidad and Tobago holds 0.0% of the land area and 0.2% of the people of the 27 countries listed for North America. In Caribbean it is the 6th largest of 16.

Where it ranks	Figure	Position
Area	5,120 km²	174th of 239
Population	1.4 million	157th of 237
Density	267 per km²	23rd of 185
Farthest north	10.5°N	138th of 212

Compared with	Its area	Trinidad and Tobago is
Belgium	30,700 km²	0.17× its size
United Kingdom	244,000 km²	0.02× its size
Germany	358,000 km²	0.01× its size
Japan	374,000 km²	0.01× its size
France	548,000 km²	0.01× its size
India	3,151,000 km²	1 in 615 its size
Brazil	8,473,000 km²	1 in 1,654 its size
United States	9,447,000 km²	1 in 1,844 its size
Russia	16,980,000 km²	1 in 3,315 its size

Where Trinidad and Tobago sits

Trinidad and Tobago's centre lies at 10.5°N, 61.3°W, in the northern and western hemispheres, about 1,160 km from the equator.
Its main territory spans 10°N to 11°N, about 150 km from its southern edge to its northern.

Closest neighbours, by distance between centres

On the same latitude, elsewhere in the world

If Trinidad and Tobago had other densities

At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Trinidad and Tobago would have 6.4 million people. It has 1.4 million.
At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Trinidad and Tobago would have 19,000 people. It has 1.4 million.
At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 371,000.

About the same size as

Largest in North America

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Sources and method

Outline: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 - Countries, public domain
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outline, shown rounded
Official figures: Area, population and capital from Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-11
Population: Wikidata, 2017; covers the whole country, overseas territory included
Data built: 2026-11-11

Full method