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2. Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands - Wikipedia

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   509.2/km 2 (1318.8/sq mi) Map of U.S. Virgin Islands. Saint Thomas (Danish: Sankt Thomas, Spanish: Santo Tomás, French: Saint-Thomas) is one of the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea, and a constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the United States. Along with surrounding minor islands ...

3. United States Virgin Islands - Wikipedia

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   Internet TLD. .vi. The United States Virgin Islands, [b] officially the Virgin Islands of the United States, are a group of Caribbean islands and an unincorporated and organized territory of the United States. [8] The islands are geographically part of the Virgin Islands archipelago and are located in the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles.

4. Districts and sub-districts of the United States Virgin Islands

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   The territorial government of the United States Virgin Islands has for operational purposes established two districts, which include the minor islets nearest to the major islands: [1][2][3] Saint Croix. Saint Thomas and Saint John. The U.S. Virgin Islands legislature has 15 seats: 7 seats are for the Saint Croix District, 7 seats are for the ...

5. Geography of the United States Virgin Islands - Wikipedia

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   A map of the United States Virgin Islands. U.S. Virgin Islands - NASA NLT Landsat 7 (Visible Color) Satellite Image. The United States Virgin Islands are a group of several dozen islands and cays located in the Caribbean, about 1,100 miles (1,770 km) southeast of Florida, 600 miles (966 km) north of Venezuela, 40 miles (64 km) east of Puerto Rico, and immediately west and south of the British ...

6. Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands - Wikipedia

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   340. Charlotte Amalie (/ ˈʃɑːrlətəˈmɑːli (ə)/ SHAR-lət ə-MAH-lee (-ə)), [ 2 ] located on St. Thomas, is the capital and the largest city of the United States Virgin Islands. It was founded in 1666 as Taphus (meaning 'tap house' or 'beer hall' in Danish). [ 3 ] In 1691, the town was renamed to Charlotte Amalie after the Danish queen ...

7. List of airports in the United States Virgin Islands - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of airports in the United States Virgin Islands (a U.S. territory), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport cod

8. Geology of the United States Virgin Islands - Wikipedia

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   Hydrogeology. One of the most in-depth studies of groundwater in the U.S. Virgin Islands was conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey in 1995, focused on Saint Croix. The south-central part of the island is underlain by alluvium and carbonate rocks, including lenses of silt and clay. The Oligocene to Miocene Jealousy formation, the Miocene and ...

9. List of governors of the United States Virgin Islands

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   Melvin Herbert Evans was the first elected governor. The following is a list of governors of the United States Virgin Islands. For governors of the territory that is now the U.S. Virgin Islands prior to United States administration (while it was ruled by Denmark as the Danish West Indies), see List of governors of the Danish West Indies.