The Falkland Islands, known to Argentinians as Islas Malvinas, span an area of around 7,500 square kilometres in the southern Atlantic Ocean. They consist of 778 islands. The islands are a British Overseas Territory even though they are just 483 kilometres off the coast of Argentina and 12,000 kilometres from England (the British have laid claim to the islands since the 1700s). Most of the 3,000 or so inhabitants of this tiny nation dwell on West Falkland and East Falkland, the two biggest islands in the archipelago (most of them of British descent).
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