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Anguilla is a British Overseas Territory, having a constitutional relationship with Britain similar to the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands and Bermuda. It lies in the Eastern Caribbean, very near the French/Dutch island of St. Martin/St. Maarten (7 miles), and to the East of Puerto Rico (200 miles) and the British Virgin Islands (94 miles) with St. Kitts and Nevis and Antigua to the South East.

Anguilla was first colonized by the British in 1650. It unilaterally left the British-administered Associated State of St Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla in 1967, instead opting to return to direct British rule, and formally attained its present status as a British Overseas Territory in 1980.