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Virgin Islands, U.S.
| Location |
Between Caribbean Sea, N Atlantic Ocean |
| Latitude and longitude |
18 20 N, 64 50 W |
| Sovereignty |
United States of America |
| Political status notes |
A territory of the United States of America; officially, "United
States Virgin Islands" |
| Population |
108,814 |
| Census notes |
est. July 1, 2003 |
| Land area in square kilometers |
342 |
| Capital |
Charlotte Amalie |
Fundamental legal document(s) online
|
| Revised
Organic Act for the U.S. Virgin Islands |
Other legal documents online
|
| District
Court of the Virgin Islands, Opinions |
| Opinions
of the Supreme Court of the United States Virgin Islands |
| Opinions
of the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands |
| Virgin
Islands Code |
Sources and other useful websites
|
| 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. |
| District
Court of the Virgin Islands |
| Superior
Court of the Virgin Islands |
| Supreme
Court of the United States Virgin Islands |
| United Nations System-Wide Earthwatch Island
Directory |
| U.S. Census Bureau, 2000 Population
Counts for the U.S. Virgin Islands (press release) |
| U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, The
World Factbook |
|
Virgin Islands, Office of Insular Affairs, U.S.
Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C. |
Selected articles on law and political status
|
| Second-Class
Citizens: The Separate and Unequal Treatment of Our Far-Flung
Territories, by Chris Mooney, in Legal Affairs (July-August
2003) |
| United Nations Secretariat, Working
Paper on United States Virgin 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.109/2004/17, April 15, 2004) (PDF) |
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