A United States territory constituting the southwest group of the Virgin Islands. The islands were purchased from the Danish in 1917 because of their strategic location at the approach to the Panama Canal. Charlotte Amalie, on St. Thomas Island, is the capital. ...
Virgin Islands (redirected fromVirgin Islands territory, United States) Dictionary Thesaurus Virgin Islands,group of about 100 small islands,West Indies, E of Puerto Rico. The islands are divided politically between the United States and Great Britain. Although constituting the westernmost part of the...
United States Virgin Islands, Organized unincorporated U.S. island territory, West Indies. Part of the Virgin Islands chain, it consists of the islands of Saint Croix, Saint John, and Saint Thomas and about 50 small islets. Area: 134 sq mi (348 sq km). Population: (2024 est.) 80,100...
United States digit ISO: UScalling code: +1 United States Minor Outlying Islands digit ISO: UMcalling code: +246 Uruguay digit ISO: UYcalling code: +598 Uzbekistan digit ISO: UZcalling code: +998 Vanuatu digit ISO: VUcalling code: +678 Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of digit ISO: VEcalling...
Other articles where history of United States is discussed: United States: History of the United States: The territory represented by the continental United States had, of course, been discovered, perhaps several times, before the voyages of Christopher
Saint Croix is an island located in the Caribbean Sea and is a part of the US Virgin Islands, which are an unincorporated part of the United States of America. The island has a population of approximately 60,000. The largest town on the island is Christiansted, which has a population of...
The coterminous states (within the USA’s pre-1959 borders) have an area of 7.8 million sq km and a population of 202 million (1970 census). They border Canada on the north, Mexico on the south, the Pacific Ocean on the west, the Atlantic Ocean on the east, and the Gulf of Mexico...
9,158,064 United States All U.S. territory Land area in km² 1,477,953 Alaska 10,628 District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, United States Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, United States Minor Outlying Islands. 7,669,483 United States Main Section below Canada...
In this alphabetical list of the territories of the United States, land area and population (where applicable) appear courtesy of the CIA World Factbook. Area figures for islands do not include submerged land area. Population numbers are as of July 2017. (Due to the hurricanes in August 2017...
CE5 CE5 CE5 United States, officially United States of America, republic (2015 est. pop. 319,929,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and in area. It consists of 50