The CIA World Factbook Every edition, 1990 to 2025 Central America and the Caribbean
Country name Barbados, in 35 editions.
The entry for Barbados published Country name in 35 editions of 36, from 1990 to 2025. The text changed in 12 editions. Each is shown as published. Country name in every entry.
- editions changed the text
- 12
- the first edition with it
- 1990
- the latest edition with it
- 2025
Published as “Long-form name” (1990 to 1992), “Names” (1993 to 1995), “Name of country” (1996) and “Country name” (1997 to 2025).
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2025 edition
Changed since 2024The same text in 3 editions, 1990 to 1992.
Published as “Long-form name”
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Published as “Names”
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- conventional short form:
- Barbados
conventional long form:
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conventional short form:
Barbados
The entry for Barbados did not include Country name.
Published as “Names”
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- conventional short form:
- Barbados
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Published as “Name of country”
- conventional long form:
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- conventional short form:
- Barbados
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Barbados
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- Barbados
conventional long form: form : none
conventional short form: Barbados
The same text in 3 editions, 1998 to 2000.
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- Barbados
conventional long form : form: none
conventional short form: Barbados
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conventional long form: none
The same text in 7 editions, 2002 to 2008.
- conventional long form:
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- Barbados
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Barbados
The same text in 6 editions, 2009 to 2014.
- conventional long form:
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- Barbados
conventional long form:
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conventional short form:
Barbados
- conventional long form:
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- conventional short form:
- Barbados
note: the name derives from the Portuguese "as barbadas," which means the bearded ones and can refer either to the long, hanging roots of the island's bearded-fig trees or to the alleged beards of the native Carib inhabitants
Rewritten: too little of the 2014 text remains to mark the changes.
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Barbados
note: the name derives from the Portuguese "as barbadas," which means the bearded ones and can refer either to the long, hanging roots of the island's bearded-fig trees or to the alleged beards of the native Carib inhabitants
- conventional long form:
- none
- conventional short form:
- Barbados
- etymology:
- the name derives from the Portuguese "as barbadas," which means "the bearded ones" and can refer either to the long, hanging roots of the island's bearded-fig trees or to the alleged beards of the native Carib inhabitants
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Barbadosnote: etymology: the name derives from the Portuguese "as barbadas," which means the "the bearded ones ones" and can refer either to the long, hanging roots of the island's bearded-fig trees or to the alleged beards of the native Carib inhabitants
The same text in 7 editions, 2017 to 2023.
- conventional long form:
- none
- conventional short form:
- Barbados
- etymology:
- the name derives from the Portuguese "as barbadas," which means "the bearded ones" and can refer either to the long, hanging roots of the island's bearded fig trees or to the alleged beards of the native Carib inhabitants
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Barbados
etymology: the name derives from the Portuguese "as barbadas," which means "the bearded ones" and can refer either to the long, hanging roots of the island's bearded-fig bearded fig trees or to the alleged beards of the native Carib inhabitants
- conventional long form:
- none
- conventional short form:
- Barbados
- etymology:
- the name derives from the Portuguese "as barbadas," which means "the bearded ones" and can refer either to the long, hanging roots of the island's bearded fig trees or to the alleged beards of the indigenous Carib inhabitants
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Barbados
etymology: the name derives from the Portuguese "as barbadas," which means "the bearded ones" and can refer either to the long, hanging roots of the island's bearded fig trees or to the alleged beards of the native indigenous Carib inhabitants
- conventional long form:
- none
- conventional short form:
- Barbados
- etymology:
- the name is the plural of the Spanish word barbado and means "the bearded ones," which could refer either to the beard-like leaves of the island's fig trees or to the beards of Carib inhabitants
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Barbados
etymology: the name derives from is the Portuguese "as barbadas," which plural of the Spanish word barbado and means "the bearded ones" and can ones," which could refer either to the long, hanging roots beard-like leaves of the island's bearded fig trees or to the alleged beards of the indigenous Carib inhabitants
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Central Intelligence Agency. “Barbados: Country name.” The World Factbook, 1990–2025 editions. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/barbados/country-name.