A boat docked on a pier of the Caribbean isle Cooper Island in the British Virgin Islands. Cooper Island is a small island of the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean. There are four privately owned properties on the island, plus a small beach club resort. The British Virgin Islands (BVI) is a British overseas territory, located in the Caribbean to the east of Puerto Rico. The islands make up part of the Virgin Islands archipelago, the remaining islands constituting the U.S. Virgin Islands. Technically the name of the Territory is simply the "Virgin Islands", but in practice since 1917 they have been almost universally referred to as the "British Virgin Islands" to distinguish the islands from the American Territory. The British Virgin Islands consist of the main islands of Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Anegada and Jost Van Dyke, along with over fifty other smaller islands and cays. Approximately fifteen of the islands are inhabited. The largest island, Tortola, is approximately 20 km (approx. 12 mi) long and 5 km (approx. 3 mi) wide. The islands have a total population of about 22, 000, of whom approximately 18, 000 live on Tortola. Road Town, the capital, is situated on Tortola.
