安地瓜与巴布达(Antigua and Barbuda)
小安地列斯群岛中的独立岛国，包括三个岛屿︰安地瓜、巴布达和雷东达岛。面积443平方公里。人口约71,500（2001）。首都︰圣约翰斯（安地瓜岛上）。居民多为殖民时期带来此地的非洲黑奴後裔。语言︰英语（官方语）。宗教：基督教。货币︰东加勒比元（EC$）。最大岛为安地瓜岛（280平方公里）缺乏山岳、森林和河流，易导致乾旱。主要锚地为圣约翰斯的一深水港。巴布达位於安地瓜以北40公里处，为面积161平方公里的保留区，有各式各样野生动物居於其中，包括野鹿；唯一的居住地为西岸的科德林顿。雷东达位於安地瓜西南，为无人居住的岩石区（1.3平方公里）。旅游业是经济最大支柱；近海渔业正发展中。1493年哥伦布曾到过安地瓜，其名取自西班牙塞维尔的教堂。1632年英国殖民者在此开拓移民；引进非洲奴隶种植烟草和蔗糖。巴布达於1678年被英国拓居移民，1834年解放奴隶。1871年起安地瓜与巴布达成为英国背风群岛殖民地的一部分，1956年该殖民地解散。1981年终获独立。
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Antigua and Barbuda
Island state, Lesser Antilles. It consists of three islands, Antigua, Barbuda, and Redonda. Area: 171 square miles (443 square km). Population (2001 est.): 71,500. Capital: St. John's (on Antigua). The majority of the population are descendants of African slaves brought in during colonial times. Language: English (official). Religion: Christianity. Currency: Eastern Caribbean dollar. The largest of the islands is Antigua (108 square miles, or 280 square km), which lacks forests, mountains, and rivers and is subject to droughts. The main anchorage is the deepwater harbor of St. John's. Barbuda, 25 miles (40 km) north of Antigua, is a 62-square-mile (161-square-km) game reserve inhabited by a variety of wildlife, including wild deer; its only settlement is Codrington, on its western coast. Redonda, an uninhabited rock (0.5 square mile, or 1.3 square km), lies southwest of Antigua. Tourism is the mainstay of the country's economy; offshore banking is growing. Christopher Columbus visited Antigua in 1493 and named it after a church in Sevilla, Spain. It was colonized by English settlers in 1632, who imported African slaves to grow tobacco and sugarcane. Barbuda was colonized by the English in 1678. In 1834 the islands' slaves were emancipated. Antigua (with Barbuda) was part of the British colony of the Leeward Islands from 1871 until that colony was defederated in 1956. The islands achieved full independence in 1981.