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United States Virgin Islands

Virgin Islands of the United States
Flag of United States Virgin Islands
Coat of arms of United States Virgin Islands
Flag Coat of arms
Motto: "United in Pride and Hope"
Location of  United States Virgin Islands  (circled in red)
Location of  United States Virgin Islands  (circled in red)
Status Unincorporated and organized territory
Capital
and largest city
Charlotte Amalie
18°21′N 64°56′W / 18.350°N 64.933°W / 18.350; -64.933
Official languages English
Common languages
Ethnic groups
Demonym Virgin Islander
Sovereign state  United States
Government Territorial presidential constitutional republic
• President
Donald Trump (R)
• Governor
Kenneth Mapp (I)
Osbert Potter (I)
• Delegate
Stacey Plaskett (D)
Legislature Legislature of the Virgin Islands
Unincorporated and organized territory of the United States
March 31, 1917
July 22, 1954
Area
• Total
346.36 km2 (133.73 sq mi) (202nd)
• Water (%)
negligible
Population
• 2016 estimate
102,951
• 2010 census
106,405
• Density
768/sq mi (296.5/km2) (n/a)
GDP (PPP) 2007 estimate
• Total
$4.580 billion (n/a)
• Per capita
$40,124 (n/a)
HDI (2008) Increase 0.894
very high · 59th
Currency United States dollar (USD)
Time zone AST (UTC−4)
• Summer (DST)
none (UTC−4)
Date format MM/DD/YYYY
Drives on the left
Calling code +1-340
ISO 3166 code VI
Internet TLD

The United States Virgin Islands (U.S.V.I.; also called the American Virgin Islands), officially the Virgin Islands of the United States, are a group of islands in the Caribbean that are an insular area of the United States. The islands are geographically part of the Virgin Islands archipelago and are located in the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles.

The U.S. Virgin Islands consist of the main islands of Saint Croix, Saint John, and Saint Thomas, and many other surrounding minor islands. The total land area of the territory is 133.73 square miles (346.36 km2). The territory's capital is Charlotte Amalie on the island of Saint Thomas.

In 2010 the population was 106,405, and mostly Afro-Caribbean. Tourism is the primary economic activity, although there is a significant rum manufacturing sector. Farming is done on a relatively small scale on the islands of St. Croix and St. Thomas, although it has seen a slow revival in recent years.

Previously the Danish West Indies of the Kingdom of Denmark–Norway, they were sold to the United States by Denmark in the Treaty of the Danish West Indies of 1916. They are classified by the U.N. as a Non-Self-Governing Territory, and are currently an organized, unincorporated United States territory. The U.S. Virgin Islands are organized under the 1954 Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands and have since held five constitutional conventions. The last and only proposed Constitution, adopted by the Fifth Constitutional Convention in 2009, was rejected by the U.S. Congress in 2010, which urged the convention to reconvene to address the concerns Congress and the Obama Administration had with the proposed document. The convention reconvened in October 2012 to address these concerns, but was not able to produce a revised Constitution before its October 31 deadline.


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