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Updates: 

I've updated the population figure to the 2011 census.

Country overview: 

Short name	VIRGIN ISLANDS, BRITISH
ISO code	VG
FIPS code	VI
Language	English (en)
Time zone	-4
Capital	Road Town

 

British Virgin Islands was a British territory throughout the 20th century.

Other names of country: 

1. Dutch: Britse Maagdeneilanden
2. French: Îles fp Vierges britanniques
3. German: Britische Jungferninseln fp
4. Icelandic: Bresku Jómfrúreyjar
5. Italian: Isole fp Vergini Britanniche
6. Portuguese: Ilhas fp Virgens Britânicas
7. Russian: Британские Виргинские острова
8. Spanish: Islas fp Vírgenes Británicas
9. Turkish: İngiliz Virgin Adaları

Origin of name: 

Named by Columbus for the 11,000 virgins of Saint Ursula, because discovered on her feast day

Primary subdivisions: 

British Virgin Islands has no known administrative divisions.

Country	HASC	Population	Area(km.²)	Area(mi.²)	Capital
British Virgin Islands	VG.VI	28,054	153	59	Road Town, Tortola Island
Country: This division is the whole of the country, treated as a division for compatibility. HASC: Hierarchical administrative subdivision code. Population: 2010-07-12 census

Postal codes: 

On 2006-10-30, the British Virgin Islands adopted a system of postal codes. The codes assigned so far all have the form VG11n0, where n is a digit.

Territorial extent: 

The Virgin Islands are divided between the Virgin Islands (U.S.) and the British Virgin Islands. The latter comprises islands north and east of The Narrows. The main islands are Anegada, Jost van Dyke, Tortola, and Virgin Gorda. Other islands in the British territory near the border with the U.S. territory are Little Tobago, Great and Little Thatch Island, Frenchman Cay, Pelican Island, and Norman Island.

The UN LOCODE page  for Virgin Islands, British lists locations in the country, some of them with their latitudes and longitudes, some with their ISO 3166-2 codes for their subdivisions. This information can be put together to approximate the territorial extent of subdivisions.

Population history:

Date	Population
1891	4,640
1946-04-09	6,505
1960-04-07	7,338
1970-04-07	10,480
1980-05-12	12,034
1991-05-12	16,749
2001-05-21	23,348
2010-07-12	28,054

Sources: 

[1] Island Sun online news site (http://www.islandsun.com/2006-December/12292006/local6-v16i8.html, dead link, retrieved 2009-03-22).

[2] BVI News , retrieved 2015-07-03.