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United States Virgin Islands: map and facts

The United States Virgin Islands is in the Caribbean. It has 84,138 people (2025). It covers 348 km². That is about 242 people per km². Its highest point is Crown Mountain, at 473 m.

The United States Virgin Islands and the land around it. The triangle marks its highest point, Crown Mountain; the circle marks its capital, Charlotte Amalie. Boundaries follow India’s official position.

Facts

Population: 84,138 (2025, UN World Population Prospects 2024)
Area: 348 km² (2024, World Bank). This figure covers a different area from the one this map shows: as drawn, about 356 km².
Capital: Charlotte Amalie
Highest point: Crown Mountain, 473 m (Wikidata)
Forest: 58.9% of the land (2024, World Bank)

Mountains and landscapes

Its highest peaks:

Crown Mountain: 473 m (its highest point)

Plateaus, plains, deserts and other regions: Virgin Islands.

Land

Land cover seen from satellites (NASA MODIS, 2024): grassland 18.8%, wooded savanna 18.8%, evergreen broadleaf forest 17.9%, water 10.6%, savanna 9.2%, towns and cities 9.2%.

Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): hills 98.2%, plains 1.8%.

Forests covered 58.9% of its land in 2024, up from 58.3% in 1990 (World Bank).

Neighbours

The United States Virgin Islands has no land borders on this map.

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Sources

India’s boundaries are drawn according to India’s official position, simplified for small-scale maps (data: Natural Earth, India view). Each figure shows its year and source; some are rounded. Data release 2026.2.

Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com), public domain. Boundaries follow India's official position (Natural Earth's India point of view). Terms
GMTED2010 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (Danielson and Gesch 2011, USGS Open-File Report 2011-1073). Terms
Friedl, M., Sulla-Menashe, D. (2022). MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. doi:10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.061. Terms
The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Surface area (AG.SRF.TOTL.K2): FAO (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Terms
The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Forest area (% of land area) (AG.LND.FRST.ZS): FAO, FAOSTAT (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
Wikidata (CC0): names, capitals, peak heights and river lengths, checked by Make Me Smarter. Terms
Landforms worked out by Make Me Smarter from GMTED2010.
Some figures corrected by Make Me Smarter from published references: Australian Bureau of Statistics; Atlas of Canada; CIA World Factbook (archived); FAO; FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025; FSM Statistics; GeoNames; Gilbertson & Gilbertson's GPS surveys of national high points; INEGI (Mexico); Peaklist.org; PeakVisor; Government of the Pitcairn Islands; Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program; Statistics Finland; UN Demographic Yearbook; UN World Population Prospects 2024; Wikidata; Wikipedia.

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