St. John, United States Virgin Islands
| Nickname: Love City | |
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Trunk Bay, St.John, U.S. Virgin Islands
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| Geography | |
| Location | Caribbean Sea |
| Coordinates | 18°20′N 64°44′W / 18.333°N 64.733°WCoordinates: 18°20′N 64°44′W / 18.333°N 64.733°W |
| Archipelago | Virgin Islands, Leeward Islands |
| Area | 20 sq mi (52 km2) |
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| Insular area | United States Virgin Islands |
| District | Saint John |
| Largest settlement | Cruz Bay (pop. 2,706) |
| Demographics | |
| Population | 4,170 (2010) |
| Pop. density | 82.09 /km2 (212.61 /sq mi) |
Saint John (Spanish: San Juan ; Dutch: Sint Hans; French: Saint-Jean ; Danish: Sankt Jan) is one of the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea and a constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the United States.
At 50 km2 the smallest of the three main US Virgin Islands, Saint John is located about four miles east of Saint Thomas, the location of the territory's capital, Charlotte Amalie. It is also four miles southwest of Tortola, part of the British Virgin Islands. Its largest settlement is Cruz Bay with a population of 2,700. St. John's nickname is Love City.
Since 1956, approximately 60% of the island is protected as Virgin Islands National Park, administered by the United States National Park Service. The economy is based on tourism.
Saint John is 50.8 km² (19.61 sq mi) in area with a population of 4,170 (2010 census). As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the total population of the US Virgin Islands territory was 106,405, comprising mostly persons of Afro-Caribbean descent.
Saint John was first settled by the Taíno Indians who migrated north from coastal areas of present-day Colombia and Venezuela around AD 300. The Arawak inhabited the island until around the year AD 1300, when they were driven off by the more aggressive and warlike Carib. Extensive archaeological work started in 1996 at Cinnamon Bay. The artifacts from this dig are being studied and are expected to yield more detailed information on pre-Columbian civilization in the US Virgin Islands.
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