Place:Turks and Caicos Islands

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NameTurks and Caicos Islands
Alt namesColony of the Turks and Caicos Islandssource: Encyclopædia Britannica (1988) XII, 62-63
TypeDependent state
Coordinates21.75°N 71.583°W
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Grand Turk
Kew
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Cockburn Town
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source: Family History Library Catalog


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The Turks and Caicos Islands ( and or ; TCI) are a British Overseas Territory consisting of the larger Caicos Islands and smaller Turks Islands, two groups of tropical islands in the West Indies. They are known primarily for tourism and as an offshore financial centre.

The Turks and Caicos Islands lie southeast of Mayaguana in the Bahamas island chain and north of the island of Hispaniola. Cockburn Town, the capital since 1766, is situated on Grand Turk Island about east-southeast of Miami in the United States. The islands have a total land area of .[1] The islands are geographically contiguous to the Bahamas, but are politically a separate entity.

The total population is about 31,500, of whom approximately 27,000 live on Providenciales in the Caicos Islands.

In August 2009, the United Kingdom suspended the Turks and Caicos Islands' self-government after allegations of ministerial corruption. The prerogative of the ministerial government and the House of Assembly were vested in the islands' governor, Gordon Wetherell, and his successor, Ric Todd, pending the report of a Commission of Inquiry and the drafting of a new Constitution of the Turks and Caicos Islands. Home rule was restored in the islands after the November 2012 elections.

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