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British Virgin Islands

The British Virgin Islands is a British Overseas Territory, in Caribbean. UN Tourism counted 302,000 international arrivals there in 2019, rarer than 84% of the 199 places with figures, so its stamp in Globestamp is printed in Prism.

British Virgin Islands’s stamp in Globestamp
Prism · 50,000 to 500,000 visitors a year
International arrivals
302,000in 2019, UN Tourism
Rank by visitors
167th of 199most visited first
Stamp finish
Prismrarer than 84%
Area
145 km² (56 sq mi)
Population
30,000Natural Earth estimate
Airports
2with scheduled flights

Does the British Virgin Islands count as a country?

It depends on the list. The British Virgin Islands is a British Overseas Territory, so it is not one of the UN’s 193 members, but Globestamp’s list of 250 countries and territories counts it on its own. The Travelers’ Century Club counts it as “Virgin Islands, British (Tortola, etc.)”.

ListCounts the British Virgin Islands?
UN member states (193)No
Globestamp’s countries and territories (250)Yes
Travelers’ Century Club (330)Yes, as Virgin Islands, British (Tortola, etc.)
European UnionNo
Schengen areaNo

The British Virgin Islands belongs to the United Kingdom, but travelers usually count it on its own, because it has its own entry rules, its own flag or its own place on the map. Other places in the same family: Anguilla, Bermuda, British Indian Ocean Territory, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Guernsey and Isle of Man.

The British Virgin Islands stamp

Every country in Globestamp has its own stamp, drawn after a real entry stamp. Its finish shows how few travelers get there. The British Virgin Islands’s is Prism: the full spectrum with glints, the finish for places with 50,000 to 500,000 visitors a year. With 302,000 international arrivals in 2019, the British Virgin Islands is rarer than 84% of the 199 places with figures. See every stamp on the stamp wall, or the rarest on the least-visited countries.

What counts as a visit to the British Virgin Islands

The common rule among travelers is that you set foot there: an airport layover usually doesn’t count, and a port where you went ashore does. Globestamp counts the British Virgin Islands when one of your photos was taken on its ground, or just off its coast; a photo taken from a plane never counts. Photos only at an airport make a transit stamp in lighter ink, counted only if you count layovers. Read more in how to count the countries you’ve visited.

Airports

The British Virgin Islands has 2 airports with scheduled flights, 1 of them large. Each is a dot on Globestamp’s airports layer, and every flight you log adds to how far you’ve flown (try the flight distance calculator).

Questions people ask

Is the British Virgin Islands a country?

It depends on the list. The British Virgin Islands is a British Overseas Territory, so it is not one of the UN’s 193 members, but Globestamp’s list of 250 countries and territories counts it on its own. The Travelers’ Century Club counts it as “Virgin Islands, British (Tortola, etc.)”.

How many tourists visit the British Virgin Islands a year?

UN Tourism (via the World Bank) counted 302,400 international arrivals in the British Virgin Islands in 2019, the 167th most of the 199 places with figures. Countries count arrivals in different ways (some include day-trippers and cruise passengers), so treat it as a rough rank rather than an exact number of tourists.

How rare is a British Virgin Islands stamp in Globestamp?

It is printed in Prism, the finish for places with 50,000 to 500,000 visitors a year, rarer than 84% of the places with figures. The fewer travelers a place receives, the rarer its finish, from plain Ink to Mythic.

Does the British Virgin Islands count for the Travelers’ Century Club?

Yes. The Travelers’ Century Club counts it as “Virgin Islands, British (Tortola, etc.)”, one of its 330 destinations.

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