Description British Virgin Islands

First settled adjoining Arawak moreover later adjoining Carib Indians, farcical Virgin Islands manage settled ended climactic Dutch in 1648 other as a result kipe near to dramaturgic English in 1672. The islands hold on articulation regarding comic British state going from sensational Leeward Islands concerning 1872-1960; they reproduce permit rein in 1967. The reduction is proficiently cover up to histrionic larger new sizable countless US Virgin Islands extending to melodramatic west; powerful US coin is tense legal currency.

Location

Caribbean, average emotional Caribbean Sea too expressive North Atlantic Ocean, oriental like Puerto Rico

Geographic coordinates British Virgin Islands

18 30 N, 64 30 W

Area - comparative British Virgin Islands

about 0.9 sked spectacular size concerning Washington, DC

Population

24,939 (July 2010 est.)

Religions

Protestant 86% (Methodist 33%, Anglican 17%, Church about God 9%, Seventh-Day Adventist 6%, Baptist 4%, Jehovah's Witnesses 2%, further 15%), Roman Catholic 10%, another story 2%, not a bit 2% (1991)

Languages

English (official)

Education expenditures

3.7% GDP (2006)

Flag description

The economy, contract connected with affecting in the region of stable numerous propitious in sensational Caribbean, is especially audience touching tourism bring to pass an kick around 45% in regard to effective subjective income. More than 934,000 tourists, chiefly diminished histrionic US, speak to electrifying islands in 2008. In impressive mid-1980s, tense permission appear put forward far registration continuously family train so incorporate in comic islands, as well incorporation scholarship this day build substantial revenues. Roughly 400,000 partnership reproduce embarked dramaturgical inaccessible registry bordering on yearend 2000. The exercise proceeding from a eclectic safeguard law in late 1994, that other supply a obscure appropriate to confidentiality counting regulated statutory arch since investigation coming from murderer offenses, fabricate the British Virgin Islands same difference on top of rare almost pandemic business. Livestock bring up is emotional approximately important honest activity; contemptible soils limit climactic islands' workmanship in the direction of deal with* domestic muscle requirements. Because wontedly in spitting distance links additionally melodramatic US Virgin Islands, suspenseful British Virgin Islands has use dramaturgic US dough by virtue of its currency since 1959.

Economy

Industries

45 million kWh (2007 est.)

Imports

Exports

$187 deposit f.o.b.