Local time
Tue, 2:53 AM GMT+8Australia/PerthCityCapital
Bridgetown
13.10° N, 59.62° W
- Population
- 191,152
- Natural Earth
- Population rank
- 1 of 1
- Rank by Natural Earth population among the 1 cities of Barbados in Terratlasia that have a population figure. Terratlasia does not list every city of Barbados, so this is not a national ranking.
- Founded
- 1628
- Year of founding from Wikidata (P571). Only the year is known, not the day; a city whose sources give more than one year shows no row.
- Elevation
- 1 m
- Elevation above sea level from Wikidata (P2044), rounded to the metre. A city whose sources give two different elevations shows no row.
- Area
- 39 km²
- Total area from Wikidata (P2046). Where two statements differ by less than half a percent the smaller is shown; a larger disagreement (land area against total area, say) shows no row.
- Administrative unit
- Saint Michael
- The administrative unit Wikidata files this city under (P131), one level below the state. The state itself is shown on its own row and is not repeated here; a city filed under more than three units shows no row at all.
- Named after
- Tobias Bridge
- Wikidata · P138 · checked 2026-09-20
- Time zone
- Australia/Perth
Traveler brief
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Practical bearings for Bridgetown, from the same records as the rest of this page.
No places in Bridgetown have been recorded yet. The map and the country page still carry its context.
Overview
Name
The current name comes from a bridge built over the Constitution River, which flows through the center of the city. It was originally named Indian Bridge in 1628 for a bridge beside Carlisle Bay, then called St. Michael's Town until the 19th century.
Source: CIA World Factbook · 2026-02-01 · text generated from this source, approved by a person
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Sister cities
- Hackney
- Wilmington
- and 1 more
