Virgin Islands

Island group of the Caribbean Leeward Islands Virgin IslandsSatellite image, October 2008 Puerto Rico Spanish Virgin Islands (Puerto Rico) United States Virgin Islands British Virgin IslandsInteractive map of Virgin IslandsGeographyLocationCaribbean Sea, Atlantic OceanCoordinates18°12′N 64°48′W / 18.2°N 64.8°W / 18.2; -64.8ArchipelagoLeeward IslandsUnited StatesInsular areaU.S. Virgin IslandsInsular areaPuerto RicoUnited KingdomOverseas territoryBritish Virgin IslandsDemographicsPopulation150,000 (estimation) (2022)LanguagesEnglishVirgin Islands CreoleSpanishEthnic groupsAfro-CaribbeanWhite-CaribbeanHispanic-CaribbeanAsian-CaribbeanIndo-Caribbean The Virgin Islands (Spanish: Islas Vírgenes) is an archipelago between the North Atlantic Ocean and northeastern Caribbean Sea, located to the immediate east of the main island of Puerto Rico. It generally forms part of the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles in the West Indies of the Caribbean region. Geologically separated from the Lesser Antilles by the Anegada Passage and from the Greater Antilles by the Mona passage, all the islands except for Saint Croix lie on the same carbonate platform and insular shelf, known