U.S. Virgin Islands Country Info - North America

Description and Basic Information

U.S. Virgin Islands with its capital Charlotte Amalie is located in North America (Caribbean, islands between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean). It covers some 353 square kilometres (twice the size of Washington, DC) with 108,708 citizens. English is the language spoken by people in U.S. Virgin Islands.

The U.S. Virgin Islands is an unincorporated organized territory of the United States of America between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east of Puerto Rico. Getting around any of the Virgin Islands is fairly easy. All of the islands have bus service and/or a regulated taxi service. Upon docking at Cruz Bay, taxis, rental cars, and scooters are available.

Pictures from Capital (Charlotte Amalie)

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About U.S. Virgin Islands

The topography features mostly hilly to rugged and mountainous with little level land. The average density of population is about 308 per km². The climate in U.S. Virgin Islands can be described as subtropical, tempered by easterly trade winds, relatively low humidity, little seasonal temperature variation with rainy season September to November. Potential natural disasters are several hurricanes in recent years or frequent and severe droughts and floods or occasional earthquakes.

To reach someone in U.S. Virgin Islands dial +1-340 prior to a number. There are 75,000 installed telephones. And there are 80,300 registered mobile phones. The cellular networks operate on frequencies of Mhz. Websites typically end with the top level domain ".vi". The following list are the 3 regions/states in U.S. Virgin Islands we know off.

Demographic Statistics

In the year 2010, the total Virgin Islander population shrinked at a rate of -0.06% (or by 67 citizens). With 764 deaths and 1,274 babies born, the natural increase rate lies at 0.47%. -577 persons more in total emmigrated from the country than immigrated.

An overview of age distribution in U.S. Virgin Islands: Each pair of bars represents a single age group (male/female). Each group is spanning 5 years. E.g. 0 to 5 years, 5 to 10 etc. and group "0 to 5" being at the left end and "100 +" at the right end of the chart.

Based on content from wikitravel.org. The original article can be found here based on the work of these users.
Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.