Why is Trinidad and Tobago called 'Tobago'?

Ol' Chris Columbus named the Trinidad portion of the island-nation duo Trinidad and Tobago after—what else can be expected from a Catholic explorer? ... How St. Kitts then got to be called St. read more

—the Holy Trinity. Rumor has it people started calling the other, smaller island “Tobago” because of all the tobacco grown (and smoked) by the natives there. read more

Maybe you think that it is sometimes called Trinidad and sometimes Tobago. Well, name of the country is the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. The republic consists of two islands in the Caribbean Sea, just off the coast of Venezuela. Trinidad is the larger island and Tobago is the smaller one. There are also a number of tiny tiny islands. read more

Forming the two-southernmost links in a chain of Caribbean islands in South America, Trinidad is the larger of the two main islands, and is just over 11 kilometers from Venezuela. Separated by the Gulf of Paria, Tobago is a smaller island located almost 30 kilometers to the northeast of Trinidad. read more

Rumor has it people started calling the other, smaller island “Tobago” because of all the tobacco grown (and smoked) by the natives there. The neighboring islands have been linked since the late 1880s, when a British commission combined Tobago with Trinidad. read more

Maybe you think that it is sometimes called Trinidad and sometimes Tobago. Well, name of the country is the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. The republic consists of two islands in the Caribbean Sea, just off the coast of Venezuela. read more