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Antigua and Barbuda

Flag of Antigua and Barbuda
Location marker · geographic overview
17.05° N / 61.8° WTHE WORLD, ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
Capital
Saint John's
Population
93,772 2024
Area
442 km² (year unavailable)
Languages source-listed
English
Currency
Eastern Caribbean dollar (XCD)
Geography
Island country

Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Sources & limitations.

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FROM THE TRAVEL GUIDE · Antigua and Barbuda

Antigua and Barbuda are two Caribbean islands that form a country that lies between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east-southeast of Puerto Rico.
Landscape & landmarks
Nelson's Dockyard in English Harbour, Antigua's only World Heritage Site since 2016
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Food & everyday culture
The national dish is fungie (pronounced foon-gee) and pepper pot. Fungie is a dish very similar to the Italian Polenta being made mainly of cornmeal. Other local dishes include ducana, seasoned rice, saltfish and lobster (from Barbuda). Local confectionaries include sugarcake, fudge, raspberry and tamarind stew, and peanut brittle. The various restaurants around the island sell both local and international food.
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Excerpts from Wikivoyage contributors, revision 2026-08-31. CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts; wiki formatting removed; omissions marked […]. Guide wording and any figures belong to this dated source; they do not replace the atlas statistics above. Food descriptions are not official national-dish designations.

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National flower
Not yet verified
Official national dish
Not yet verified
Representative food
Not yet verified
Subregion
Caribbean
Calling code
+1268
Internet domain
.ag
Land border codes
None listed

Quick facts

  • Traffic keeps to the left side of the road. Source ↗
  • The country-code web domain is .ag. Source ↗
  • The source lists monday as the start of the week. Source ↗

Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Source-matched September 26, 2026; not live data. Sources & limitations.

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Antigua and Barbuda in context

Population in 2024

#184 of 194

Among the atlas countries with a 2024 World Bank observation. Population source ↗

Area in the atlas

#182 of 195

By source-listed total area, largest first. This is separate from the population ranking. Geography source ↗

Size compared with nearby values

These named countries are in the same source continent and have the closest total areas. They are comparison points, not necessarily neighbours.

Area compared with Antigua and Barbuda
CountryArea (km²)Ratio
Antigua and Barbuda4421.00×
Barbados4300.97×
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines3890.88×
Grenada3440.78×

Ratio = comparison country's source area ÷ Antigua and Barbuda's source area; rounded to two decimals. Rankings use competition ranks (ties share a rank). Area values use the pinned geographic snapshot, not a population observation year.

Land neighbours

Land neighbours in this atlas: none. This follows the source-listed borders.

Source-listed time zones

UTC-04:00

Static source offsets, not a live clock or daylight-saving calculation. Source ↗

Computed from the atlas snapshot retrieved September 26, 2026. Population rank excludes the one country without 2024 data; no claim of an all-territory global ranking.

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