Capital: Port of Spain 165,100 (2011)
Population: 1,353,895 (2016)
Area: 5,131 km2
Establishment: Trinidad and Tobago separately discovered by the Spanish: 1498.
Colonized by Spain: 1530.
Spain cedes Trinidad and Tobago (as separate colonies) to the UK at the Treaty of Amiens:
25. March 1802.
Unification of Trinidad and Tobago: 1889.
Part of the West Indies Federation: 3. January 1958 -
31. May 1962.
Independence from the UK: 31. August 1962.
Republic: 1. August 1976.
