There are enough places in the world whose beauty is breathtaking, and the Virgin Islands, of course, are among them. The basis of the local economy is tourism, so the locals are very kind to their nature, and to the environment as a whole. It is clean, comfortable and incredibly beautiful, but the rest here will certainly fly into a pretty penny.
The crime rate here is almost the lowest on our planet, and the lowest in the entire Western Hemisphere. The Virgin Islands archipelago consists of 60 islands. The main local holiday is Freedom Day. It is celebrated annually on November 2. Many residents of the Virgin Islands have Danish roots, as one of the islands of the archipelago was once inhabited by Danes. They are divided into three parts – the British Virgin Islands, the Spanish and American. But the “Spanish part” is also under US control.
A decent share of the revenue in the treasury of the Virgin Islands brings the registration of companies, as they are included in a convenient offshore zone. Moreover, there are 25 times more companies registered here than there are residents in this country – more than 700,000. The main and only official language in the Virgin Islands is English. Traffic on local roads, by the way, is left-hand, as in other former colonies of Great Britain. The official currency here is US dollars. Centuries ago, during the heyday of piracy in the Caribbean, the Virgin Islands often became a haven for filibusters.
Most of the local population are descendants of Africans who were brought here from their native continent as slaves. The first Europeans in the Virgin Islands were Spaniards, but later the archipelago came under British control. Indigenous people, local Indians, were exterminated by the Spanish conquistadors shortly after the capture of the islands. The name of the archipelago was given by Christopher Columbus, who discovered it. The outlines of the coastal cliffs pulled out associations with female bodies from him, which is why he christened the Virgin Islands discovered by them.
