'''Barbados''' is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of the Americas, and the most easterly of the Caribbean Islands. It is  in length and up to  in width, covering an area of . It is in the western part of the North Atlantic,  east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea. Barbados is east of the Windwards, part of the Lesser Antilles, at roughly 13°N of the equator. It is about  east of both the countries of Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and  south-east of Martinique and  north-east of Trinidad and Tobago. Barbados is outside the principal Atlantic hurricane belt. Its capital and largest city is Bridgetown.