Category:U.S. Virgin Islands

The United States Virgin Islands, formally known as the Virgin Islands of the United States, are a group of Caribbean islands &mdash; part of the Virgin Islands archipelago, situated in the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, east of Puerto Rico and west of the British Virgin Islands &mdash; that are currently held as an unincorporated territory of the United States of America, having been purchased in 1917 from the Kingdom of Denmark as part of the Treaty of the Danish West Indies. The main islands are Saint Croix, Saint John, and Saint Thomas, with an additional fifty minor islands and cays.