Antigua and Barbuda (population 90,156 in 2014) are the largest of the English-speaking Leeward Islands (442.6 km2 or 170.9 mi2) located in the Eastern Caribbean Sea, roughly 17° north of the equator. The economy is heavily dependent on tourism (with over 60 % GDP and nearly 40 % of investment). Antigua and Barbuda has been an independent country since 1981, but it remains within the British Commonwealth of Nations (Figure 1).
Map of Antigua and Barbuda
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Abranja, N. (2016). Antigua and Barbuda. In: Jafari, J., Xiao, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Tourism. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01384-8_532
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