Trinidad and Tobago Regions (original) (raw)

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"Geopolitical Entities, Names, and Codes, Edition 2" (GENC), a U.S. standard that's supposed to correspond to ISO 3166-2, was issued on 2014-03-31. It has codes for the regions of Trinidad and Tobago. Like GEC, it has only one code for Tobago: TT-TOB. An update to ISO 3166-2, dated 2015-11-27, withdraws the ISO codes for Eastern and Western Tobago and replaces them with TT-TOB for Tobago. It also changes the code for Mayaro/Rio Claro from TT-RCM toTT-MRC. The GENC code has not changed to match it. Now that none of the standards show Eastern and Western Tobago separately, I conclude they should be combined.

"Geopolitical Entities and Codes" (GEC) is the successor to FIPS standard 10-4. Update 13 to GEC is dated 2013-09-30. For Trinidad and Tobago, all it does is correct one misspelling.

Update 7 to GEC was issued with the date 2012-02-01. It reflects the changes that have occurred in the country's subdivisions since 1980. It shows Tobago as a single division, though. It also changes the spelling of Port-of-Spain to Port of Spain.

International standard ISO 3166-2 was published on December 15, 1998. It superseded ISO/DIS 3166-2 (draft international standard). For Trinidad and Tobago, the draft standard showed eight counties, three municipalities, and one ward. The final standard shows eleven regions and five municipalities. Most of the codes are different, but the code "SGE" was Saint George in the old scheme and Sangre Grande in the new one. The change in the standard corresponds to an actual change in the administrative division of Trinidad and Tobago.

Country overview:

Short name TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
ISO code TT
FIPS code TD
Language English (en)
Time zone -4
Capital Port of Spain

Trinidad and Tobago was a British colony for the first part of the 20th century. On 1962-08-31 it became an independent member of the British Commonwealth.

Other names of country:

  1. Danish: Trinidad og Tobago, Republikken Trinidad og Tobago (formal)
  2. Dutch: Trinidad en Tobago, Republiek Trinidad en Tobago (formal)
  3. English: Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (formal)
  4. Finnish: Trinidad ja Tobago
  5. French: Trinit�-et-Tobago f
  6. German: Trinidad und Tobago n
  7. Icelandic: Tr�nidad og T�bag�
  8. Italian: Trinidad e Tobago
  9. Norwegian: Trinidad og Tobago, Republikken Trinidad og Tobago (formal)
  10. Portuguese: Trindade e Tobago, Trinidad f e Tobago m (Brazil), Trinidade e Tobago (Brazil), Rep�blica f de Trindade e Tobago (formal)
  11. Russian: Республика Тринидад и Тобаго (formal)
  12. Spanish: Trinidad y Tobago, Trinidad y Tabago, Rep�blica f de Trinidad y Tobago (formal)
  13. Swedish: Trinidad och Tobago
  14. Turkish: Trinidad ve Tobago Cumhuriyeti (formal)

Origin of name:

Spanish Trinidad: Trinity, named by Columbus on sighting three peaks; Carib tavaco: tobacco pipe

Primary subdivisions:

Trinidad and Tobago is divided into nine regions, three boroughs, two cities, and one ward.

Name Type HASC ISO FIPS Pop-2011 Pop-2000 Area(km.�) Area(mi.�) Capital Former
Arima bor TT.AR ARI TD01 33,606 28,310 11 4 Arima Arima
Chaguanas bor TT.CH CHA TD13 83,516 61,897 60 23 Chaguanas Caroni
Couva/Tabaquite/Talparo reg TT.CT CTT TD14 178,410 152,483 720 278 Couva Caroni, Saint George, Victoria
Diego Martin reg TT.DM DMN TD15 102,957 86,805 128 49 Petit Valley Saint George
Mayaro/Rio Claro reg TT.MR MRC TD16 35,650 30,298 853 329 Rio Claro Mayaro, Nariva
Penal/Debe reg TT.PD PED TD17 89,392 77,756 247 95 Penal Saint Patrick, Victoria
Point Fortin bor TT.PF PTF TD18 20,235 17,755 24 9 Point Fortin Point Fortin
Port of Spain cit TT.PS POS TD05 37,074 37,965 13 5 Port of Spain Port of Spain
Princes Town reg TT.PT PRT TD19 102,375 85,682 621 240 Princes Town Victoria
San Fernando cit TT.SF SFO TD10 48,838 48,784 19 7 San Fernando San Fernando
Sangre Grande reg TT.SN SGE TD21 75,766 58,311 899 347 Sangre Grande Saint Andrew, Saint David
San Juan/Laventille reg TT.SL SJL TD20 157,258 136,759 220 85 Laventille Saint George
Siparia reg TT.SI SIP TD22 86,949 77,010 510 197 Siparia Saint Patrick
Tobago wd TT.TO TOB TD11 60,874 44,190 303 117 Scarborough Tobago
Tunapuna/Piarco reg TT.TP TUP TD23 215,119 170,767 527 204 Tunapuna Saint George
15 divisions 1,328,019 1,114,772 5,155 1,989
Type: regions (reg), boroughs (bor), cities (cit), ward (wd). HASC: Hierarchical administrative subdivision codes. ISO: Region codes from ISO 3166-2. For full identification in a global context, prefix "TT-" to the code (ex: TT-SIPrepresents Siparia). FIPS: Codes from FIPS PUB 10-4. Pop-2011: 2011-01-09 census (source [5]). Pop-2000: 2000-05-15 census (source [2]). Area: 2000-05-15 census. Former: Pre-1990 divisions corresponding roughly to the territory of the modern division.

Note: the census data subdivide Tobago, not into Eastern and Western regions, but into seven parishes. Eastern Tobago includes the parishes of Saint George (2011 population: 6,875), Saint John (2,825), Saint Mary (3,297), and Saint Paul (6,048). Western Tobago includes Saint Andrew (17,536), Saint David (8,733), and Saint Patrick (15,560).

Postal codes:

According to this TTPOST page, Trinidad and Tobago launched a six-digit postal code scheme on 2012-03-28. The numbers are not yet available online. The first two digits of the code identify the main post office for processing deliveries. For example, Diego Martin's post office handles codes beginning with12.

Territorial extent:

  1. Tobago consists of the islands of Tobago, Little Tobago, and Saint Giles' Islands.
  2. The other divisions lie mainly on the island of Trinidad. In addition, Saint George includes the islands of Monos, Chacachacare, Gaspar Grande, and Huevos.

The UN LOCODE page for Trinidad and Tobago lists locations in the country, some of them with their latitudes and longitudes, some with their ISO 3166-2 codes for their subdivisions. This information can be put together to approximate the territorial extent of subdivisions.

Change history:

  1. In 1900, Trinidad and Tobago was a British colony.
  2. 1945-06: County councils were established. Counties were Caroni, Mayaro, Nariva, Saint Andrew, Saint David, Saint George, Saint Patrick, Tobago, and Victoria. In addition, the borough of Arima and the cities of Port of Spain and San Fernando were independent of any county.
  3. 1962-08-31: Trinidad and Tobago became an independent member of the British Commonwealth.
  4. 1980: Tobago House of Assembly was formed as the organ of local government for Tobago. Status of Tobago changed to ward.
  5. 1980-04-30: Point Fortin municipality split from Saint Patrick county. The resulting divisions were as shown in this table.
County HASC ISO FIPS Typ Pop-46 Pop-70 Pop-87 Area(km.�) Area(mi.�) Capital
Arima TT.AR ARI TD01 mu 8,069 11,636 28,500 10 4 Arima
Caroni TT.CA CAR TD02 cn 61,739 115,254 167,300 554 214 Chaguanas
Mayaro TT.MA MAY TD03 cn 4,196 7,448 33,200 378 146 Rio Claro, Nariva
Nariva TT.NA NAR TD04 cn 11,815 20,902 534 206 Rio Claro
Point Fortin TT.PF PTF mu 17,300 Point Fortin
Port of Spain TT.PS POS TD05 mu 92,793 62,680 58,300 6 3 Port-of-Spain
Saint Andrew TT.SA SAN TD06 cn 23,285 39,071 57,800 733 283 Sangre Grande
Saint David TT.SD SDA TD07 cn 5,037 6,009 205 79 Sangre Grande, Saint Andrew
Saint George TT.SG SGE TD08 cn 138,362 312,085 435,800 917 354 Tunapuna
Saint Patrick TT.SP SPA TD09 cn 69,183 117,189 122,800 676 261 Siparia
San Fernando TT.SF SFO TD10 mu 28,842 36,879 33,100 2 1 San Fernando
Tobago TT.TO TOB TD11 wd 27,208 38,754 44,300 300 116 Scarborough
Victoria TT.VI VIC TD12 cn 87,441 163,164 218,700 813 314 Princes Town
13 divisions 557,970 931,071 1,217,100 5,128 1,981
Typ: county (cn), municipality (mu), or ward (wd). HASC: Hierarchical administrative subdivision codes. ISO: Codes from ISO 3166-2. FIPS: Codes from FIPS PUB 10-4. Pop-46: 1946-04-09 census (source [1]). Pop-70: 1970-04-07 census (source [6]). Pop-87: 1987 estimate. The Central Statistics Office reports Mayaro and Nariva as a unit,and Saint Andrew and Saint David as another unit.
  1. 1990: According to the Ministry of Local Government (source [3]), seven new boroughs or counties were created. I haven't been able to find any documentation on the resulting divisions. Could these be the seven parishes of Tobago?
  2. 1991-10-01: Chaguanas municipality split from Caroni county.
  3. 1992: Local government reorganized into the divisions shown in the table above. Note that the four counties named for saints were all on the island of Trinidad, and have disappeared, but there are now seven parishes named for saints, all on the island of Tobago, and the same four saints are still on the map.
  4. ~2014: I can find no current mention of Tobago being divided into Eastern and Western regions. If they did exist, they must have merged. Their former data were, Eastern Tobago (HASC code TT.ET, ISO code ETO, FIPS code TD11, 2011 population 19,045. 2000 pop. 14,887, area 215 km.�, capital Roxborough) and Western Tobago (TT.WT, WTO,TD11, 41,829, 29,303, 88, Scarborough).

Other names of subdivisions:

  1. Port of Spain: Port-of-Spain (variant); Puerto Espa�a (Spanish)
  2. San Juan/Laventille: San Juan/Lavantille (variant)
  3. Tobago: Tabago (Spanish)

Sources:

  1. [1] Demographic Yearbook , 7th Ed. Statistical Office of the United Nations, New York, 1955 (retrieved 2011-08-20).
  2. [2] Trinidad and Tobago Central Statistical Office website, http://www.cso.gov.tt/census2000 (dead link, retrieved 2005-06-04).
  3. [3] Ministry of Local Government website, http://www.molg.gov.tt/contents.htm (dead link, retrieved 1999-09-23).
  4. [4] Profile of Local Government Corporations, http://www.nalis.gov.tt/agri/LupapCD/Table%20Profile%20Local%20Government.htm (dead link, retrieved 2003-02-18). Had area and population data "compiled by the Land Use Policy & Administration Project (LUPAP) from data supplied by CSO � Mapping Unit and Local Area Concept Plans (1999)".
  5. [5] Trinidad and Tobago 2011 Population and Housing Census : Demographic Report. The Central Statistical Office, Port of Spain, 2012 (retrieved 2013-07-29).
  6. [6] 1979 Demographic Yearbook , 31st Ed. Statistical Office, United Nations, New York, 1980 (retrieved 2011-12-28).