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Which of these Caribbean countries is a twin island?
Trinidad and Tobago is a twin island country in the Caribbean situated off the northern edge of the South American mainland, lying just 11 kilometers (6.8 miles) off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and 130 kilometers (81 miles) south of Grenada. Size: Trinidad and Tobago as a whole has an area of 5,131 km2 (1,981 sq. Trinidad and Tobago is a twin island with only two seasons, rainy and dry season.
There are also a lot of tourists attractions such as, beautiful beaches, amazing carnival events, great food, soca music and the land where steel pan and steel pan music were created. It is a multicultural society of people where every creed and race finds an equal place.Trinidad, by far the larger of the two main islands, has an area of about 1,850 square miles (4,800 square km).Tobago, much smaller, with an area of about 115 square miles (300 square km), lies 20 miles (30 km) to the northeast of Trinidad.
Extending diagonally from southwest to northeast,Tobago is about 30 miles (50 km) long and more than 10 miles (16 km) across at its widest point. The outstanding feature of the island of Trinidad is its Northern Range. The range runs east-west at an average elevation of about 1,500 feet (460 metres), rising to 3,084 feet (940 metres) at Mount Aripo the country’s highest peak. The Northern Range is the site of a large number of waterfalls, the most spectacular of which are the Blue Basin Falls and the Maracas Falls, both 298 feet (91 metres) high.
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