Antigua and Barbuda - Introduction

Here, let us take a look at some of the important facts about the country Antigua and Barbuda. Antigua and Barbuda (officially: Antigua and Barbuda) is a country in Americas, precisely in Caribbean, with a population of about 95.0 Thousands inhabitants today (2024-11-21). The capital city of Antigua and Barbuda is Saint John's, and the official country TLD code is .ag. Antigua and Barbuda has cca2, cca3, cioc, ccn3 codes as AG, ATG, ANT, 028 respectively. Check some other vital information below.

The Siboney were the first people to inhabit the islands of Antigua and Barbuda in 2400 B.C., but the Arawaks populated the islands when Christopher COLUMBUS landed on his second voyage in 1493. Early Spanish and French settlements were succeeded by an English colony in 1667. Slavery, which provided labor on the sugar plantations on Antigua, was abolished in 1834. The islands became an independent state within the British Commonwealth of Nations in 1981. In 2017, Hurricane Irma passed over the island of Barbuda, devastating the island and forcing the evacuation of the population to Antigua. Almost all of the structures on Barbuda were destroyed and the vegetation stripped, but Antigua was spared the worst.
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Antigua and Barbuda is found in Caribbean