Trinidad ita ce mafi girma kuma mafi yawan jama'a daga cikin manyan tsibirai biyu na Trinidad da Tobago. Tsibirin yana kwance 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) daga gefen gabashin arewa maso gabashin Venezuela kuma ya zauna akan yankin na Kudancin Amurka. Ana kiran shi sau da yawa a matsayin tsibirin kudu mafi tsayi a cikin Karibiyan. Tare da yanki na 5,131 square kilometres (1,981 sq mi) , kuma shine na biyar mafi girma a cikin West Indies . Asalin sunan tsibirin a yaren Arawaks shine Iëre wanda ke nufin 'Ƙasar Hummingbird'. Christopher Columbus ya sake masa suna zuwa La Isla de la Trinidad ('Tsibirin Triniti '), ya cika alwashin da ya yi kafin ya fara tafiyarsa ta uku. Wannan an taƙaita shi zuwa Trinidad . Caribs da Arawaks sun zauna a Trinidad tun kafin Christopher Columbus ya gamu da tsibirin a tafiyarsa ta uku a ranar 31 ga watan Yulin 1498. Tsibirin ya kasance na Sifen har ya zuwa 1797, amma turawan mulkin mallaka na Faransa daga Caribbean na Faransa, musamman Martinique sun daidaita shi sosai. A cikin 1889 tsibiran biyu sun zama masarauta ɗaya ta Mulkin Burtaniya.