British Virgin Islands

The British Virgin Islands national football team is the national team of the British Virgin Islands and is controlled by the British Virgin Islands Football Association.

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The Virgin Islands, commonly referred to as the British Virgin Islands (BVI), is a British overseas territory located in the Caribbean to the east of Puerto Rico.

Tortola is the largest and most populated of the British Virgin Islands, a group of islands that form part of the archipelago of the Virgin Islands.

Geography The U.S. Virgin Islands are in the Atlantic Ocean, about east of Puerto Rico and immediately west of the British Virgin Islands.

The islands make up part of the Virgin Islands archipelago the remaining islands constitute the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Spanish Virgin Islands.

The British Virgin Islands were administered variously as part of the British Leeward Islands or with St. Kitts and Nevis, with an administrator representing the British Government on the Islands.

Currency The official currency of the British Virgin Islands has been the United States dollar (US ) since 1959, the currency also used by the United States Virgin Islands.

The Virgin Islands of the United States (commonly called the United States Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, American Virgin Islands, or USVI) are a group of islands in the Caribbean that are an insular area of the United States.

Egypt, Monaco, Puerto Rico, Senegal, and the British Virgin Islands participated in their 1st Winter Olympic Games.

Since 2001, financial services in the British Virgin Islands have been regulated by the independent Financial Services Commission.

However in some islands, mostly Lesser Antilles (such as the British Virgin Islands, US Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, as well as Turks and Caicos Islands) and the Bahamas, most passenger cars are still LHD equipped (despite driving on the left), being imported from the United States or Brazil.

Indigo plantations also thrived in the Virgin Islands.

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Rum from the U.S. Virgin Islands is also of this style.

Puerto Rico ( or ), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (, , literally the Free Associated State of Puerto Rico ), is a United States territory located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic, and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.

In addition to the four main islands of Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Anegada, and Jost Van Dyke, other islands include See also .

In 2000 KPMG reported in its survey of offshore jurisdictions for the United Kingdom government that over 45 of the world's offshore companies were formed in the British Virgin Islands.

Islands The main Lesser Antilles are (from north to south to west) Leeward Islands Virgin Islands St. Thomas (US) St. John (US) St. Croix (US) Water Island (US) Tortola (UK) Virgin Gorda (UK) Anegada (UK) Jost Van Dyke (UK) Anguilla (UK) Sint Maarten (Neth.

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Economy As an offshore financial centre, the British Virgin Islands enjoys one of the more prosperous economies of the Caribbean region, with a per capita average income of around 42,300 (2010 est.

Fiji, Guam, Guatemala, Jamaica, the Netherlands Antilles and the Virgin Islands had their Winter Olympics debut.

Elsewhere in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Lenny produced a storm surge of about in St. Thomas.

To draw more technology focused companies and expand this segment of the economy, the government founded and launched University of the Virgin Islands Research and Technology Park in conjunction with private businesses and the University of the Virgin Islands.

In the United States, driving is on the right, while traffic in the US Virgin Islands, as on many Caribbean islands, drives on the left.

Gilbert Islands (former name) named after the British Captain Thomas Gilbert, who sighted the islands in 1788.

Saint Croix, the largest of the U.S. Virgin Islands, lies to the south and has a flatter terrain.

Politics The Turks and Caicos Islands are a British Overseas Territory.

The British contested control over the islands between 1794 and 1810.

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The Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority also uses imported energy to operate its desalination facilities to provide fresh water.

The U.S. Virgin Islands are located in the Atlantic Standard Time zone and do not participate in daylight saving time.

Some are possessions of sovereign states, as several states have overseas dependencies (such as the British Virgin Islands (United Kingdom) and Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France)), with citizenry at times identical and at times distinct from their own.

At various times, the islands have had French, British, Spanish, and Argentine settlements.

Likewise, he affirmed that the Virgin Mary conceived as virgin, gave birth as virgin and stayed virgin forever .

When the mainland United States is on Standard Time, the U.S. Virgin Islands are one hour ahead of Eastern Standard Time.

The U.S. Virgin Islands are an independent customs territory from the mainland United States and operate largely as a free port.

The first European sighting of the Virgin Islands was by Christopher Columbus in 1493 on his second voyage to the Americas.

Jeanne passed south of the U.S. Virgin Islands on September 15, making landfall near Yabucoa, Puerto Rico later the same day.

The British greatly improved the islands' communications, and introduced modern education and justice systems.

The Treaty of Paris in 1815 turned the islands into the United States of the Ionian Islands under British protection (November 5, 1815).