The Virgin Islands are an archipelago between the North Atlantic Ocean and the northeastern Caribbean Sea, immediately east of Puerto Rico, and form part of the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles. The archipelago is divided politically into three parts, the British Virgin Islands in the east, the United States Virgin Islands in the center, and Puerto Rican municipalities including Vieques and Culebra in the west, sometimes called the Spanish Virgin Islands. Geologically, all of the islands except Saint Croix share the same carbonate platform and the same tectonic plate, the Puerto Rico Bank and the Puerto Rico-Virgin Islands microplate, which sets them apart from neighboring island systems.
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The Virgin Islands (Spanish: Islas Vírgenes) is an archipelago between the North Atlantic Ocean and northeastern Caribbean Sea, located to the immediate east of the main island of Puerto Rico.
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