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Profiles from various sources, demographics, travel issues and warnings, consulate information, embassies, communications, safety concerns, and related information you should know as you travel to and around the islands.
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) FactBook
Introduction, Maps, Geography. People. Government, Economy, Communications, Transportation, Military and Transnational Issues prepared and maintained with regular updates from the US Central Intelligence Agency.
Falkland Islands Government
"The Falkland Islands are a dynamic UK Overseas Territory. Falkland Islanders welcome the support of citizens and governments all over the world who share their ideals of self determination and self sufficiency, to help ensure that their future is secure."
Regions and territories: Falkland Islands
"The isolated and sparsely-populated Falkland Islands, a British overseas territory in the south-west Atlantic Ocean, remain the subject of a sovereignty dispute between Britain and Argentina, who waged a brief but bitter war over the territory in 1982."
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