Travel & technology
Electric power
- Plug shape
- Voltage
- 120V, 60Hz
Phone dialing
- Code to call Trinidad and Tobago
- +1.868
Mobile phones
- GSM Band
- 1800
What every visitor should know about Trinidad and Tobago:
- Money
- The currency is the Trinidad and Tobago dollar (TTD). 1 TTD is worth about US$0.16, or €0.11.
- Crime
- CrimeSafe Travel Score™: 2.5 out of 5 (Use caution)
Areas of concern:
- Armed robbery is frequent
- Capital
- Port-of-Spain
- Tap water
- Safe in cities, but bottled water is advisable in rural areas.
Trinidad and Tobago facts and figures:
People
- Population
- 1,229,953
- Language
- English (official), Caribbean Hindustani (a dialect of Hindi), French, Spanish, Chinese
- Ethnicity
- Indian (South Asian) 40%, African 37.5%, mixed 20.5%, other 1.2%, unspecified 0.8%
Economy
- GDP
- US$18,600 (per capita)