Jersey

Jersey

Jersey ranks 205th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Guernsey, Aruba, and Marshall Islands. Memorable people born in present day Jersey include Wace, Henry Cavill, and Philip Carteret. Memorable people who died in Jersey include Gerald Durrell, Claude Cahun, and Félix Gaillard. Jersey has been the birth place of many writers, and actors and the death place of many social activists, and photographers.

Jersey, officially the Bailiwick of Jersey, is an autonomous and self-governing British Crown Dependency in Northwestern Europe 14 miles (23 km) off the Cotentin Peninsula of north-west France. At 45 square miles (120 km2), the main island, Jersey, is the largest of the Channel Islands. Although not a sovereign state, Jersey has its own legal, fiscal and governmental systems; on that basis, it is regarded as a small nation or island country. Jersey's territory also includes some surrounding uninhabited islands and rocks. As of 2021, the island had a population of 103,267. Read more on Wikipedia