British Virgin Islands (original) (raw)

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Updates:

I've updated the population figure to the 2011 census.

Country overview:

British Virgin Islands was a British territory throughout the 20th century.

Other names of country:

1. Dutch: Britse Maagdeneilanden
2. French: �les fp Vierges britanniques
3. German: Britische Jungferninseln fp
4. Icelandic: Bresku J�mfr�reyjar
5. Italian: Isole fp Vergini Britanniche
6. Portuguese: Ilhas fp Virgens Brit�nicas
7. Russian: Британские Виргинские острова
8. Spanish: Islas fp V�rgenes Brit�nicas
9. Turkish: İngiliz Virgin Adaları

Origin of name:

Named by Columbus for the 11,000 virgins of Saint Ursula, because discovered on her feast day

Primary subdivisions:

British Virgin Islands has no known administrative divisions.

Postal codes:

On 2006-10-30, the British Virgin Islands adopted a system of postal codes. The codes assigned so far all have the form VG11n0, where n is a digit.

Territorial extent:

The Virgin Islands are divided between the Virgin Islands (U.S.) and the British Virgin Islands. The latter comprises islands north and east of The Narrows. The main islands are Anegada, Jost van Dyke, Tortola, and Virgin Gorda. Other islands in the British territory near the border with the U.S. territory are Little Tobago, Great and Little Thatch Island, Frenchman Cay, Pelican Island, and Norman Island.

The UN LOCODE page for Virgin Islands, British lists locations in the country, some of them with their latitudes and longitudes, some with their ISO 3166-2 codes for their subdivisions. This information can be put together to approximate the territorial extent of subdivisions.

Population history:

Sources:

[1] Island Sun online news site (http://www.islandsun.com/2006-December/12292006/local6-v16i8.html, dead link, retrieved 2009-03-22).

[2] BVI News , retrieved 2015-07-03.