Trinidad and Tobago by Sean Sheeban, states many different facts about Trinidad. Trinidad and Tobago are two small islands off the north coast of Venezuela in the Caribbean sea. Along with other countries, Dominica, St. Lucia, Jamaica, and other all fall in the long chain of the West Indies. The West Indies separate the Caribbean sea from from the Atlantic ocean.
The island has a total area of 1,864 square miles and is the more industrialized of the two islands. Tobago, just 7 miles northeast of Trinidad, is smaller at 116 square miles. Trinidad has three ranges of hills running across it from west to east, part of this range starts in the Andes Mountains and extends along the Paria Peninsula to the islands. The hills on the east are known as the Trinity and along these ranges are swamps known as the Caroni ans Nariva Swamp.
Both islands have a tropical climate of high relative humidity and distinct seasons, dry in December and May, with a wet season between June and November, June being the wettest month, raining about every afternoon everyday. During the dry season, February being the driest month, at an averages of 70 degrees. April is the hottest month with temperature highs of around 85-100 degrees.
Trinidad's the third largest and most newly developed town is Chaguanas, located halfway between San Fernando and Port-of-Spain. It is now an important business center servicing the oil industry, and like San Fernando and Arima, Chaguanas was once home to the Caribbean Indians. The southern end of Trinidad is dominated by heavy industry, with serval towns supporting the workers.
Question: Why is Trinidad and Tobago considered to be one country when they are not joined together?
are they one country, sharing one government?
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