MAPS OF HISTORY · HISTORY OF · British Virgin Islands

ONE LAND · 2 ATLASES

British Virgin Islands, on the map of history

What was British Virgin Islands before it was British Virgin Islands? Below, every era of this land in the Maps of History collection — who ruled it, what it was called, and when control changed — each line linked to the dated map that shows it. Modern borders stand in as an honest approximation; every atlas says so on the map itself.

British Virgin Islands · The Great War, 1914–1918

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British Virgin Islands · The Cold War, 1945–1991

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