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Turks and Caicos Islands
(Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom)

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Turks and Caicos Government Information

• United Kingdom: Country Guide

• Department of Economic Planning and Statistics
• Government Directory
• Overseas Territories - Queen Elizabeth: Constitutional Monarch
• Turks and Caicos Islands Government
• Turks and Caicos Tourist Board

Overseas Territories Information

• British Overseas Territories Act 2002
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Overseas Territories

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Country Profiles

• Australian Government - Turks and Caicos
  Country profile, economic and trade information, and foreign relations from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
• BBC News Territory Profile - Turks and Caicos
  A guide to history, politics and economic background of countries from BBC News.
• CIA World Factbook - Turks and Caicos
  Country profile provides information on country background, geography, people, government, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues.
• ITC - Turks and Caicos
  Country-specific trade and market profiles, map, and trade statistics from the International Trade Centre (ITC).
• UNESCO Institute for Statistics - Turks and Caicos
  A selection of national statistics on education, literacy, science and technology, culture, and communication.
• UNFPA Caribbean
  The UNFPA office in Jamaica serves the English and Dutch Speaking Caribbean inclusive of 21 member countries: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and The Turks and Caicos Islands.
• United Kingdom's Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Turks and Caicos
  Country profile covering history, politics, economy, human rights, relations with the UK, and travel.
• United Nations Statistics Division: Environment Snapshot - Turks and Caicos
  Country snapshots offer national environment statistics.
• United Nations Statistics Division: National Accounts - Turks and Caicos
  "Statistics database contains a complete and consistent set of time series from 1970 onwards of main national accounts aggregates for all UN Members States and all other countries and areas in the world."
• U.S. Census Bureau Foreign Trade Statistics - Turks and Caicos
  U.S. trade in goods (imports, exports and balance) with Turks and Caicos.
• U.S. Department of Energy - Turks and Caicos
  Country energy profile for production, consumption, U.S. oil imports, and CO2 emissions.

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Articles and Databases

• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Declassified Documents
  Declassified information available from the FOIA Electronic Reading Room. Enter "Turks and Caicos" as the search term.
• CRS Reports - LexisNexis Congressional CU
  The Congressional Research Service (CRS), the research arm of Congress, prepares reports (usually under 20 pages long) on topics of interest to members of Congress. Enter "Turks and Caicos" as the search term.
• Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
  Department of Defense Scientific and Technical Reports Collection provides access to citations to unclassified unlimited documents that have been entered into DTIC's Technical Reports (TR) Database, as well as the electronic full-text of many of these documents. The site also includes databases that focus on individual topics.
• Global Legal Information Network (GLIN)
  "Public database of official texts of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations."
• International Area Studies General CU
  Collection of general databases from the University of Colorado covering international issues.
• International Area Studies Latin America CU
  Collection of databases from the University of Colorado covering Latin America.
• International Area Studies Statistics CU
  Collection of international statistics databases from the University of Colorado.
• PAHO/WHO Databases
  Regional Core Health Data Initiative Table Generator System from the Pan American Health Organization, a regional office of the World Health Organization. Provides national health statistics and other data on the health situation in the Caribbean and North, Central, and South American countries.

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Diplomatic Relations
Diplomacy, Programs and Aid

• CARICOM - Turks and Caicos
  The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was established by the Treaty of Chaguaramas in 1973. It is a regional organization dedicated to improving development, trade and economics, international competitiveness and economic leverage, coordination of foreign economic policies, and standards of living and work.
• EU's Relations with the Turks and Caicos Islands
  Overview, country strategy, agreements, and documents on the European Union's relations with Turks and Caicos.
• ReliefWeb - Turks and Caicos
  ReliefWeb, administered by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), provides news, documents, maps, and background information on emergency assistance by country.
• UNHCR - Turks and Caicos
  News, operations, statistics, background, analysis and policy, and maps from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
• United Kingdom Overseas Territories Association (UKOTA) - Turks and Caicos
  "UKOTA exists to promote the interests of the United Kingdom Overseas Territories and co-operation between them. Specifically UKOTA demonstrates the collective and individual partnerships between the territories and Her Majesty's Government."

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Health

• PAHO/WHO
  Official site of the Pan American Health Organization, a regional office of the World Health Organization.   
  • Country Health Profile - Turks and Caicos
    Information, health situation analysis, and statistics about countries in the Americas.

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Peacekeeping and Military Information

• Defense is the responsibility of the United Kingdom
  • see UK Ministry of Defence

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Resources in the Catalog

• The Library Catalog, Chinook
  There are numerous secondary, federal, and international sources of information on Turks and Caicos available in the collection.
  
  Try these searches to see some of the resources in Chinook, the library catalog:

  Electronic Resources	Print and Electronic Resources
  turks and caicos	turks and caicos
  turks and caicos (government publications only)	turks and caicos (government publications only)

• Foreign Relations and International Aid
• United Kingdom: Country Guide