The British Virgin Islands comprise around 60 tropical Caribbean islands, ranging in size from the largest, Tortola, being 20 km (12 mi) long and 5 km (3 mi) wide, to tiny uninhabited , altogether about 150 square kilometres (58 square miles) in extent. They are located in the , a few miles east of the , and about 95 km (59 mi) from the .
Politics of the British Virgin Islands takes place in a framework of a , whereby the is the , and of a . The (officially the "Virgin Islands") are an internally self-governing of the . The Committee on Decolonization includes the island.
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