Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Road Town
- Region
- Americas, Caribbean
- Population
- 39,732 (2025)
- Area
- 153 km²
- Currency
- United States dollar (USD)
- Languages
- English
- Calling code
- +1-284
- Internet domain
- .vg
- ISO codes
- VG, VGB, 092
- Time zone
- UTC-4:00
- United Nations
- Not a member
- Postal code pattern
- VG#### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
The British Virgin Islands covers about 153 square kilometres. By area it ranks 227th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Liechtenstein and a little larger than Christmas Island. It has no land border with any other country. Its centre lies at about 18° north, 65° west, in the northern hemisphere.
People
About 39,732 people live in the British Virgin Islands (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 218th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure. On average there are 260 people to each square kilometre. About 57 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 77 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: English. A person from the British Virgin Islands is called Virgin Islander.
Money and economy
The currency is the United States dollar (code USD, symbol $). It is also the main currency of American Samoa, British Indian Ocean Territory, Caribbean Netherlands, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guam, Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands and 7 more.
Time
The British Virgin Islands uses one time zone, UTC-4:00 (America/Tortola). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Road Town | 8,449 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Caribbean
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Caribbean Netherlands, Cayman Islands, Cuba. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.