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Jersey

Land Area 116km²
Land Area + Seaarea
Population 97857
Population density 843.6 / km²

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Jersey ( JUR-zee, French: [ʒɛʁzɛ] (listen); Jèrriais: Jèrri [dʒɛri]), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey (French: Bailliage de Jersey; Jèrriais: Bailliage dé Jèrri), is a British Crown dependency located close to the coast of Normandy, France. It is the second-closest to France of the Channel Islands, after Alderney. Jersey was a part of the Duchy of Normandy, whose dukes went on to become kings of England from 1066. The ducal title surrendered to France, and after Normandy was dropped by the kings of England in the 13th century, Jersey and the other Channel Islands remained attached to the crown. The bailiwick consists of the island of Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands, along with surrounding rocks and uninhabited islands named Les Dirouilles, Les Écréhous, Les Minquiers, Les Pierres de Lecq, and other lands. Although the bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey are often known jointly as the Channel Islands, the"Channel Islands" are not a constitutional or political unit. Jersey has a separate connection to the Crown from another Crown dependencies of Guernsey and the Isle of Man, though all are held by the monarch of the United Kingdom.Jersey is a self-governing parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy, with its own financial, legal and judicial systems, and the power of self-determination. The Lieutenant Governor on the island would be the Queen's representative. Jersey isn't part of the uk, and has an international identity separate from that of the UK, but the UK is constitutionally responsible for Jersey's defence. The definition of United Kingdom in the British Nationality Act 1981 is interpreted as including the UK and the Islands together.The European Commission confirmed in a written reply to the European Parliament in 2003 that Jersey was within the Union as a European Territory for whose external relationships the UK accounts for Jersey wasn't fully part of the European Union but had a special relationship with it, especially being treated as within the European Community for the purposes of free trade in goods.British cultural influence on the island is evident in its use of English as the main language and the British pound as its primary currency, even though some people still speak or understand Jèrriais, the local form of the Norman language, and put names with French or Norman origins abound. Added cultural commonalities include driving access to the BBC and ITV areas, on the left, a college program after that of England, and the popularity of sports.

Source: Wikipedia