Turks and Caicos, which has garnered notoriety in recent years as a favored retreat for the very rich and very famous, is a tropical Atlantic archipelago located 575 miles southeast of Miami and 75 miles north of the Dominican Republic. The area’s famed white-sand beaches lie along 100 named islands and cays, but only nine of those islands are inhabited. As the name suggests, the country is made up of two distinct groups of islands. The Turks are to the east; the Caicos in the west.

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