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Encyclopedia: United States Virgin Islands

The United States Virgin Islands 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 four main islands of St. Thomas, St. John, St. Croix, and Water Island, and many smaller islands. It is the only part of the United States where traffic drives on the left. The total land area of the territory is 346.36 km² (133.73 sq mi). As of the 2000 census the population was 108,612 [1].

Translations

How to say "United States Virgin Islands" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	美屬維爾京群島
	(Japanese)	アメリカ領ヴァージン諸島
	(German)	Amerikanische Jungferninseln
	(Spanish)	Islas Vírgenes de los Estados Unidos
	(French)	Îles Vierges américaines
	(Italian)	Isole Vergini Statunitensi

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Delegates to the United States House of Representatives from the Virgin Islands

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Saint Thomas, United States Virgin Islands

Saint Thomas is an island in the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), a United States territory, in the Caribbean Sea. On Saint Thomas is the USVI capital, Charlotte Amalie...

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Melvin H. Evans

Melvin Herbert Evans (August 7, 1917 - November 27, 1984) was a Delegate from the United States Virgin Islands to the United States House of Representatives. He was born in Christiansted, St. Croix..., Berkeley. He was the Virgin Islands Health Commissioner, and appointed Governor of the United States...

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Flag of the United States Virgin Islands

Flag ratio: ? The flag of the United States Virgin Islands was adopted in 1921. Flags of the U.S. states Alabama | Alaska | Arizona | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Connecticut... inhabited administrative areas American Samoa | Guam | Northern Mariana Islands | Puerto Rico | Virgin...

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Henry E. Rohlsen International Airport

Henry E. Rohlsen Internatonal Airport in the island of St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands, is a small but international airport that is a mini center of Caribbean flights. Its IATA Airport Code is STX. The airport, which used to be one of the hubs for Aero Virgin Islands back in the 1970s and...

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Saint Thomas

St. Thomas may be: one of these islands: Saint Thomas, United States Virgin Islands São Tomé, part of São Tomé and Príncipe other place names: Canada: St. Thomas, Ontario France: Saint Thomas, Aisne United States of America St. Thomas, Missouri St. Thomas, North Dakota St. Thomas...

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Donna Christian-Christensen

), is the Delegate from the United States Virgin Islands to the United States House of Representatives..., then served as medical director for the St. Croix Hospital, St. Croix, Virgin Islands. She was the commissioner of health for the Virgin Islands and a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions...

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Ron de Lugo

Ron de Lugo (August 2, 1930) was the first Delegate from the United States Virgin Islands to the United States House of Representatives. He was born in Englewood, New Jersey, and attended the Colegio San Jose, Puerto Rico. He served in the United States Army, serving as a program director and...

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Saint John

, North Dakota St. John, Washington Saint John, United States Virgin Islands Saint John parish, Antigua St. John River, eastern North America St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda St. Johns, Arizona, United States St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada St. John's, London, England St. John's, South...

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List of U.S. national parks by state

National Park Texas Big Bend National Park Guadalupe Mountains National Park United States Virgin Islands Virgin Islands National Park Utah Arches National Park Bryce Canyon National Park...National Parks by State Alaska Denali National Park and Preserve Gates Of The Arctic National Park...

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