The British Virgin Islands

British Virgin Islands

The Virgin Islands, often called the British Virgin Islands , is a British overseas territory and overseas territory of the European Union, located in the Caribbean to the east of Puerto Rico. The islands make up part of the Virgin Islands archipelago, the remaining islands constituting the U.S...

(BVI) is a British overseas territory located in the eastern portion of the Virgin Islands Archipelago in the Caribbean Sea

Caribbean Sea

The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean located in the tropics of the Western hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico and Central America to the west and southwest, to the north by the Greater Antilles, and to the east by the Lesser Antilles....

. The Virgin Islands are part of the Leeward Islands

Leeward Islands

The Leeward Islands are a group of islands in the West Indies. They are the northern islands of the Lesser Antilles chain. As a group they start east of Puerto Rico and reach southward to Dominica. They are situated where the northeastern Caribbean Sea meets the western Atlantic Ocean...

 of the Lesser Antilles

Lesser Antilles

The Lesser Antilles are a long, partly volcanic island arc in the Western Hemisphere. Most of its islands form the eastern boundary of the Caribbean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean, with the remainder located in the southern Caribbean just north of South America...

. The United States Virgin Islands

United States Virgin Islands

The Virgin Islands of the United States 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...

 comprises the western portion of the archipelago

Archipelago

An archipelago , sometimes called an island group, is a chain or cluster of islands. The word archipelago is derived from the Greek ἄρχι- – arkhi- and πέλαγος – pélagos through the Italian arcipelago...

. Technically the name of the Territory is simply the "Virgin Islands", but in practice since 1917 they have been almost universally referred to as the "British Virgin Islands" to distinguish the islands from the American Territory. To add to the regional confusion, the Puerto Rican islands of Culebra

Culebra, Puerto Rico

Isla Culebra is an island-municipality of Puerto Rico originally called Isla Pasaje and Isla de San Ildefonso. It is located approximately east of the Puerto Rican mainland, west of St. Thomas and north of Vieques. Culebra is spread over 5 wards and Culebra Pueblo...

, Vieques

Vieques, Puerto Rico

Vieques , in full Isla de Vieques, is an island–municipality of Puerto Rico in the northeastern Caribbean, part of an island grouping sometimes known as the Spanish Virgin Islands...

 and surrounding islands began referring to themselves as the "Spanish Virgin Islands

Spanish Virgin Islands

The Spanish Virgin Islands, formerly called the Passage Islands and also known as the Puerto Rican Virgin Islands, are part of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, located east of the main island of Puerto Rico. Puerto Rican tourist literature uses the name Spanish Virgin Islands, but most general...

" as part of a tourism drive in the early 2000s.

The British Virgin Islands consist of the main islands of Tortola

Tortola

Tortola is the largest and most populated of the British Virgin Islands, a group of islands that form part of the archipelago of the Virgin Islands. Local tradition recounts that Christopher Columbus named it Tortola, meaning "land of the Turtle Dove". Columbus named the island Santa Ana...

, Virgin Gorda

Virgin Gorda

Virgin Gorda is the third-largest and second most populous of the British Virgin Islands . Located at approximately 18 degrees, 48 minutes North, and 64 degrees, 30 minutes West, it covers an area of about...

, Anegada

Anegada

Anegada is the northernmost of the British Virgin Islands, a group of islands which form part of the archipelago of the Virgin Islands. It lies approximately north of Virgin Gorda. Anegada is the only inhabited British Virgin Island formed from coral and limestone, rather than being of volcanic...

 and Jost Van Dyke

Jost Van Dyke

At roughly 8 square kilometers, and about 3 square miles Jost Van Dyke is the smallest of the four main islands of the British Virgin Islands, the northern portion of the archipelago of the Virgin Islands, located in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea. Jost Van Dyke lies about 8 km to the...

, along with over fifty other smaller islands and cay

Cay

A cay , also spelled caye or key, is a small, low-elevation, sandy island formed on the surface of coral reefs. Cays occur in tropical environments throughout the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans , where they provide habitable and agricultural land for hundreds of thousands of people...

s. Approximately fifteen of the islands are inhabited. The largest island, Tortola, is approximately 20 km (approx. 12 mi) long and 5 km (approx. 3 mi) wide. The islands have a total population of about 22,000, of whom approximately 18,000 live on Tortola. Road Town

Road Town

-See also:* Government House, the official residence of the Governor of the British Virgin Islands located in Road Town-External links:*****...

, the capital, is situated on Tortola.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the British Virgin Islands:

General reference

• Pronunciation
  International Phonetic Alphabet
  The International Phonetic Alphabet "The acronym 'IPA' strictly refers [...] to the 'International Phonetic Association'. But it is now such a common practice to use the acronym also to refer to the alphabet itself that resistance seems pedantic...
  
  :
• Common English country name: The British Virgin Islands
  British Virgin Islands
  The Virgin Islands, often called the British Virgin Islands , is a British overseas territory and overseas territory of the European Union, located in the Caribbean to the east of Puerto Rico. The islands make up part of the Virgin Islands archipelago, the remaining islands constituting the U.S...
  
  
• Official English country name: Virgin Islands
  British Virgin Islands
  The Virgin Islands, often called the British Virgin Islands , is a British overseas territory and overseas territory of the European Union, located in the Caribbean to the east of Puerto Rico. The islands make up part of the Virgin Islands archipelago, the remaining islands constituting the U.S...
  
  
• Common endonym(s):
• Official endonym(s):
• Adjectival(s): Virgin Island
• Demonym(s):
• Etymology
  Etymology
  Etymology is the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time.For languages with a long written history, etymologists make use of texts in these languages and texts about the languages to gather knowledge about how words were used during...
  
  : Name of the British Virgin Islands
• ISO country codes: VG, VGB, 092
• ISO region codes: See ISO 3166-2:VG
  ISO 3166-2:VG
  ISO 3166-2:VG is the entry for the British Virgin Islands in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.Currently no ISO 3166-2...
  
  
• Internet
  Internet
  The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
  
   country code top-level domain
  Country code top-level domain
  A country code top-level domain is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, a sovereign state, or a dependent territory....
  
  : .vg
  .vg
  .vg is the Internet country code top-level domain for the British Virgin Islands.-External links:* *...
  
  

Geography of the British Virgin Islands

• The British Virgin Islands are: a British overseas territory
• Location:
  • Northern Hemisphere
    Northern Hemisphere
    The Northern Hemisphere is the half of a planet that is north of its equator—the word hemisphere literally means “half sphere”. It is also that half of the celestial sphere north of the celestial equator...
    
     and Western Hemisphere
    Western Hemisphere
    The Western Hemisphere or western hemisphere is mainly used as a geographical term for the half of the Earth that lies west of the Prime Meridian and east of the Antimeridian , the other half being called the Eastern Hemisphere.In this sense, the western hemisphere consists of the western portions...
    
    
    • North America
      North America
      North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
      
       (though not on the mainland
      Mainland
      Mainland is a name given to a large landmass in a region , or to the largest of a group of islands in an archipelago. Sometimes its residents are called "Mainlanders"...
      
      )
  • Atlantic Ocean
    Atlantic Ocean
    The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions. With a total area of about , it covers approximately 20% of the Earth's surface and about 26% of its water surface area...
    
    
    • North Atlantic
      • Caribbean
        Caribbean
        The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
        
        , east of Puerto Rico
        Puerto Rico
        Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
        
        
        • Antilles
          Antilles
          The Antilles islands form the greater part of the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea. The Antilles are divided into two major groups: the "Greater Antilles" to the north and west, including the larger islands of Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola , and Puerto Rico; and the smaller "Lesser Antilles" on the...
          
          
          • Lesser Antilles
            Lesser Antilles
            The Lesser Antilles are a long, partly volcanic island arc in the Western Hemisphere. Most of its islands form the eastern boundary of the Caribbean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean, with the remainder located in the southern Caribbean just north of South America...
            
            
            • Leeward Islands
              Leeward Islands
              The Leeward Islands are a group of islands in the West Indies. They are the northern islands of the Lesser Antilles chain. As a group they start east of Puerto Rico and reach southward to Dominica. They are situated where the northeastern Caribbean Sea meets the western Atlantic Ocean...
              
              
              • Virgin Islands archipelago
                Virgin Islands
                The Virgin Islands are the western island group of the Leeward Islands, which are the northern part of the Lesser Antilles, which form the border between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean...
                
                
  • Time zone
    Time zone
    A time zone is a region on Earth that has a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purposes. In order for the same clock time to always correspond to the same portion of the day as the Earth rotates , different places on the Earth need to have different clock times...
    
    : Eastern Caribbean Time (UTC-04)
  • Extreme points of the British Virgin Islands
    • High: Mount Sage
      Mount Sage
      Mount Sage is a volcanic peak which is the highest point in the British Virgin Islands. It is located on the island of Tortola to the southwest of the island group's capital Road Town, and rises to a height of 530 m ....
      
       521 m (1,709 ft)
    • Low: Caribbean Sea
      Caribbean Sea
      The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean located in the tropics of the Western hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico and Central America to the west and southwest, to the north by the Greater Antilles, and to the east by the Lesser Antilles....
      
       0 m
  • Land boundaries: none
  • Coastline: 80 km
• Population of the British Virgin Islands: 2005 census: 22,016
• Area of the British Virgin Islands: 153 km²
• Atlas of the British Virgin Islands

Environment of the British Virgin Islands

• Climate of the British Virgin Islands
• Environmental issues in the British Virgin Islands
• Ecoregions in the British Virgin Islands
• Renewable energy in the British Virgin Islands
• Geology of the British Virgin Islands
• Protected areas of the British Virgin Islands
  • Biosphere reserves in the British Virgin Islands
  • National parks of the British Virgin Islands
• Wildlife of the British Virgin Islands
  • Flora of the British Virgin Islands
  • Fauna of the British Virgin Islands
    • Birds of the British Virgin Islands
    • Mammals of the British Virgin Islands

Natural geographic features of the British Virgin Islands

• Fjords of the British Virgin Islands
• Glaciers of the British Virgin Islands
• Islands of the British Virgin Islands
• Lakes of the British Virgin Islands
• Mountains of the British Virgin Islands
  • Volcanoes in the British Virgin Islands
• Rivers of the British Virgin Islands
  • Waterfalls of the British Virgin Islands
• Valleys of the British Virgin Islands
• World Heritage Sites in the British Virgin Islands: None

Regions of the British Virgin Islands

Main article: Regions of the British Virgin Islands

Ecoregions of the British Virgin Islands

Main article: Ecoregions in the British Virgin Islands

Administrative divisions of the British Virgin Islands

Main article: Administrative divisions of the British Virgin Islands

• Provinces of the British Virgin Islands
  • Districts of the British Virgin Islands
    Districts of the British Virgin Islands
    -Administrative Districts:The five administrative subdivisions mentioned on some web pages may just be planning regions, without much administrative relevance:...
    
    
    • Municipalities of the British Virgin Islands

Municipalities of the British Virgin Islands

• Capital of the British Virgin Islands: Road Town
• Cities of the British Virgin Islands

Demography of the British Virgin Islands

Main article: Demographics of the British Virgin Islands

Demographics of the British Virgin Islands

This article is about the demographic features of the population of the British Virgin Islands, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and various other aspects....

Government and politics of the British Virgin Islands

Main article: Government of the British Virgin Islands and Politics of the British Virgin Islands

Politics of the British Virgin Islands

Politics of the British Virgin Islands takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic dependency, whereby the Premier is the head of government, and of a multi-party system. The British Virgin Islands are an internally self-governing overseas territory of the United Kingdom...

• Form of government
  Form of government
  A form of government, or form of state governance, refers to the set of political institutions by which a government of a state is organized. Synonyms include "regime type" and "system of government".-Empirical and conceptual problems:...
  
  : parliamentary
  Parliamentary system
  A parliamentary system is a system of government in which the ministers of the executive branch get their democratic legitimacy from the legislature and are accountable to that body, such that the executive and legislative branches are intertwined....
  
   representative democratic
  Representative democracy
  Representative democracy is a form of government founded on the principle of elected individuals representing the people, as opposed to autocracy and direct democracy...
  
   dependency
  Dependent territory
  A dependent territory, dependent area or dependency is a territory that does not possess full political independence or sovereignty as a State, and remains politically outside of the controlling state's integral area....
  
  
• Capital of the British Virgin Islands: Road Town

• Elections in the British Virgin Islands
  Elections in the British Virgin Islands
  Elections in the British Virgin Islands gives information on election and election results in the British Virgin Islands.The British Virgin Islands elects on territorial level a unicameral legislature...
  
  
  • (specific elections)
• Political parties in the British Virgin Islands
• Political scandals of the British Virgin Islands
• Taxation in the British Virgin Islands
  Taxation in the British Virgin Islands
  Taxation in the British Virgin Islands is relatively simple by comparative standards; photocopies of all of the tax laws of the British Virgin Islands would together amount to about 200 pages of paper. Taxation in the British Virgin Islands is mostly notable for what is not subject to taxation...
  
  

Branches of the government of the British Virgin Islands

Executive branch of the government of the British Virgin Islands

• Head of state
  Head of State
  A head of state is the individual that serves as the chief public representative of a monarchy, republic, federation, commonwealth or other kind of state. His or her role generally includes legitimizing the state and exercising the political powers, functions, and duties granted to the head of...
  
  : Monarch of the United Kingdom, Queen Elizabeth II
  • Monarch's representative: Governor of the British Virgin Islands
    Governor of the British Virgin Islands
    The Governor of the British Virgin Islands is the representative of the British monarch in the United Kingdom's overseas territory of British Virgin Islands. The Governor is appointed by the monarch on the advice of the British government...
    
    , David Pearey
    David Pearey
    David Pearey was the Governor of the British Virgin Islands from 18 April 2006 to 5 August 2010. He was appointed by Queen Elizabeth II on the advice of the British government, to represent the Queen in the territory, and to act as the de facto head of state.Prior to his appointment as Governor,...
    
    
• Head of government
  Head of government
  Head of government is the chief officer of the executive branch of a government, often presiding over a cabinet. In a parliamentary system, the head of government is often styled prime minister, chief minister, premier, etc...
  
  : Premier of the British Virgin Islands, Ralph T. O'Neal
  Ralph T. O'Neal
  Ralph Telford O'Neal, OBE is the former Premier of the British Virgin Islands, and is expected to be appointed as the leader of the opposition...
  
  
• Cabinet: Executive Council of the British Virgin Islands

Legislative branch of the government of the British Virgin Islands

• House of Assembly of the British Virgin Islands (unicameral)

Judicial branch of the government of the British Virgin Islands

• Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court
  Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court
  The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court is a superior Court of record for the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States , including six independent states: Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and three British...
  
  
  • High Court of Justice of the British Virgin Islands
  • Court of Appeal of the British Virgin Islands
• Magistrate's Court of the British Virgin Islands
• Juvenile Court of the British Virgin Islands
• Court of Summary Jurisdiction of the British Virgin Islands

Foreign relations of the British Virgin Islands

• Diplomatic missions in the British Virgin Islands
• Diplomatic missions of the British Virgin Islands

International organization membership

The government of the British Virgin Islands is a member of:

• Caribbean Community and Common Market (Caricom) (associate)
• Caribbean Development Bank
  Caribbean Development Bank
  The Caribbean Development Bank is a financial institution which assists Caribbean nations in financing social and economic programs in its member countries...
  
   (CDB)
• International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) (subbureau)
• International Olympic Committee
  International Olympic Committee
  The International Olympic Committee is an international corporation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin on 23 June 1894 with Demetrios Vikelas as its first president...
  
   (IOC)
• Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)
• United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) (associate)
• Universal Postal Union
  Universal Postal Union
  The Universal Postal Union is an international organization that coordinates postal policies among member nations, in addition to the worldwide postal system. The UPU contains four bodies consisting of the Congress, the Council of Administration , the Postal Operations Council and the...
  
   (UPU)
• World Federation of Trade Unions
  World Federation of Trade Unions
  The World Federation of Trade Unions was established in 1945 to replace the International Federation of Trade Unions. Its mission was to bring together trade unions across the world in a single international organization, much like the United Nations...
  
   (WFTU)

Law and order in the British Virgin Islands

Main article: Law of the British Virgin Islands

Law of the British Virgin Islands

The law of the British Virgin Islands is a combination of common law and statute, and is based heavily upon English law.Law in the British Virgin Islands tends to be a combination of the very old and the very new...

• Capital punishment in the British Virgin Islands
• Constitution of the British Virgin Islands
• Crime in the British Virgin Islands
• Human rights in the British Virgin Islands
  Human rights in the British Virgin Islands
  Human rights in the British Virgin Islands are codified in the 2007 constitution.Section 9 of the constitution is entitled Fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual, and provides:...
  
  
  • LGBT rights in the British Virgin Islands
    LGBT rights in the British Virgin Islands
    LGBT rights in the British Virgin Islands are seen to be restricted in comparison to most Western countries.-Law regarding same-sex sexual activity:...
    
    
  • Freedom of religion in the British Virgin Islands
• Law enforcement in the British Virgin Islands

Military of the British Virgin Islands

Main article: Military of the British Virgin Islands

Military of the British Virgin Islands

The defence of the British Virgin Islands is the responsibility of the United Kingdom.The history of the islands is relatively free from armed conflict, and people of the British Virgin Islands have served in foreign militaries with great distinction...

• Command
  • Commander-in-chief
    Commander-in-Chief
    A commander-in-chief is the commander of a nation's military forces or significant element of those forces. In the latter case, the force element may be defined as those forces within a particular region or those forces which are associated by function. As a practical term it refers to the military...
    
    :
    • Ministry of Defence of the British Virgin Islands
• Forces
  • Army of the British Virgin Islands
  • Navy of the British Virgin Islands
  • Air Force of the British Virgin Islands
  • Special forces of the British Virgin Islands
• Military history of the British Virgin Islands
• Military ranks of the British Virgin Islands

Local government in the British Virgin Islands

History of the British Virgin Islands

Main article: History of the British Virgin Islands

History of the British Virgin Islands

The History of the British Virgin Islands is usually, for convenience, broken up into five separate periods:* Pre-Columbian Amerindian settlement, up to an uncertain date* Nascent European settlement, from approximately 1612 until 1672...

, Timeline of the history of the British Virgin Islands, and Current events of the British Virgin Islands

• Economic history of the British Virgin Islands
• Military history of the British Virgin Islands

Culture of the British Virgin Islands

Main article: Culture of the British Virgin Islands

• Architecture of the British Virgin Islands
• Cuisine of the British Virgin Islands
• Ethnic minorities in the British Virgin Islands
• Festivals in the British Virgin Islands
• Humor in the British Virgin Islands
• Languages of the British Virgin Islands
• Media in the British Virgin Islands
• National symbols of the British Virgin Islands
  • Coat of arms of the British Virgin Islands
    Coat of arms of the British Virgin Islands
    The coat of arms of the British Virgin Islands was first granted in 1960.The arms consist of a shield, featuring a lady dressed in white holding a golden lamp, with 11 other golden lamps surrounding her on a green field. It is a representation of Saint Ursula, a Christian saint who is said to have...
    
    
  • Flag of the British Virgin Islands
    Flag of the British Virgin Islands
    The flag of the British Virgin Islands was adopted on 15 November 1960. It is a defaced Blue Ensign with the Union Flag in the canton, and defaced with the coat of arms of the British Virgin Islands...
    
    
  • National anthem of the British Virgin Islands
• People of the British Virgin Islands
• Prostitution in the British Virgin Islands
• Public holidays in the British Virgin Islands
  Public holidays in the British Virgin Islands
  Holidays in the British Virgin Islands are predominantly religious holidays, with a number of additional national holidays. The most important holiday in the Territory is the August festival, which is celebrated on the three days from the first Monday in August to commemorate the abolition of...
  
  
• Records of the British Virgin Islands
• Religion in the British Virgin Islands
  • Buddhism in the British Virgin Islands
  • Christianity in the British Virgin Islands
  • Hinduism in the British Virgin Islands
  • Islam in the British Virgin Islands
    Islam in the British Virgin Islands
    According to a 2009 Pew Research Center report, Muslims constitute approximately 1.2% of the population in the British Virgin Islands....
    
    
  • Judaism in the British Virgin Islands
  • Sikhism in the British Virgin Islands
• World Heritage Sites in the British Virgin Islands: None

Art in the British Virgin Islands

• Art in the British Virgin Islands
• Cinema of the British Virgin Islands
• Literature of the British Virgin Islands
• Music of the British Virgin Islands
• Television in the British Virgin Islands
• Theatre in the British Virgin Islands

Sports in the British Virgin Islands

Main article: Sports in the British Virgin Islands

• Football in the British Virgin Islands
  Football in the British Virgin Islands
  The sport of football in the British Virgin Islands is run by the British Virgin Islands Football Association. The association administers the national football team, as well as the national League....
  
  
• British Virgin Islands at the Olympics
  British Virgin Islands at the Olympics
  The British Virgin Islands has competed in every Summer Olympic Games since 1984. The country has never won a medal and has never competed in the Winter Olympics.-Summary:...
  
  

Economy and infrastructure of the British Virgin Islands

Main article: Economy of the British Virgin Islands

Economy of the British Virgin Islands

The economy of the British Virgin Islands is one of the most prosperous in the Caribbean. According to the CIA World factbook, in 2004 the Territory had the 12th highest GDP per capita in the world...

• Economic rank, by nominal GDP (2007): 170th (one hundred and seventieth)

• Agriculture in the British Virgin Islands
• Banking in the British Virgin Islands
  • National Bank of the British Virgin Islands
• Communications in the British Virgin Islands
  • Internet in the British Virgin Islands
• Companies of the British Virgin Islands

• Currency of the British Virgin Islands
  Currency
  In economics, currency refers to a generally accepted medium of exchange. These are usually the coins and banknotes of a particular government, which comprise the physical aspects of a nation's money supply...
  
  : Dollar
  • ISO 4217
    ISO 4217
    ISO 4217 is a standard published by the International Standards Organization, which delineates currency designators, country codes , and references to minor units in three tables:* Table A.1 – Current currency & funds code list...
    
    : USD

• Economic history of the British Virgin Islands
• Energy in the British Virgin Islands
  • Energy policy of the British Virgin Islands
  • Oil industry in the British Virgin Islands
• Mining in the British Virgin Islands
• Tourism in the British Virgin Islands
• Transport in the British Virgin Islands
  Transport in the British Virgin Islands
  The systems of transport in the British Virgin Islands include 113 kilometres of highway and a harbour at Road Town.-References:...
  
  

• the British Virgin Islands Stock Exchange

Education in the British Virgin Islands

Main article: Education in the British Virgin Islands

Education in the British Virgin Islands

Under the Education Ordinance, education in the British Virgin Islands is compulsory for children until the age of 14....

Infrastructure of the British Virgin Islands

• Health care in the British Virgin Islands
• Transportation in the British Virgin Islands
  • Airports in the British Virgin Islands
  • Rail transport in the British Virgin Islands
  • Roads in the British Virgin Islands
• Water supply and sanitation in the British Virgin Islands

See also

• Index of British Virgin Islands-related articles
• List of British Virgin Islands-related topics
• List of international rankings
• Outline of geography
  Outline of geography
  The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to geography:Geography – science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth.- Geography is :...
  
  
• Outline of North America
• Outline of the Caribbean
• Outline of the United Kingdom
  Outline of the United Kingdom
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain, is a sovereign island nation located in the British Isles of Western Europe...
  
  

External links

Official sites and overviews

• The Government of the British Virgin Islands (official government site)
• The Government of the BVI, London Office – Official government site
• British Virgin Islands: Nature's Little Secrets – Official site of the British Virgin Islands Tourist Board
• The British Virgin Islands Ports Authority – Official site
• National Parks Trust of the British Virgin Islands – Official site
• British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission – Official site

Directories