Twin City, Love City & Rock City
The U.S. Virgin Islands economy is based primarily on tourism and other services. The leading sectors in employment are government service; trade, encompassing personal, business, and domestic services including tourism; manufacturing; and finance, real estate, and insurance. About one-fifth of the total land area is farmland, most of it on St. Croix. The government has built dams on St. Croix and St. Thomas to improve farmers’ water supply. Only 6 percent of the land is forested, but the government has planted large areas of St. Croix with mahogany and has reforested parts of St. Thomas. A bay forest on St. John supplies leaves for the bay rum industry.10
