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Cayman Islands
| Location |
W Caribbean Sea |
| Latitude and longitude |
19 30 N, 80 30 W |
| Sovereignty |
United Kingdom |
| Population |
36,273 |
| Census notes |
est. July 2002 |
| Land area in square kilometers |
260 |
| Capital |
George Town |
Fundamental legal document(s) online
|
|
British
Overseas Territories Act 2002, on the ISLAND LAW website |
Sources and other useful websites
|
| Cayman
Islands, Background Notes, from the U.S. Department of State
(2003) |
| Cayman
Islands, globalEDGE Country Insight from Michigan State
University |
| Cayman
Islands Government |
| Dependencies
and Areas of Special Sovereignty, Office of the Geographer and
Global Issues, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of
State, Washington, D.C. |
| United Kingdom, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Country
Profile: Cayman Islands |
| U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, The
World Factbook |
Selected articles on law and political status
|
| Constitutional
Modernisation in Montserrat and the Cayman Islands: Taking the British
Seriously?, by Howard A. Fergus (2003) |
| LLRX.Com, Guide
to Caribbean Law Research, by Yemisi Dina |
| United Nations Secretariat, Working
Paper on the Cayman Islands, prepared for the Special Committee
of the U.N. General Assembly on the Situation with Regard to the
Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to
Colonial Countries and Peoples (A/AC.109/2004/15, April 8, 2004) (PDF) |
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