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About Jersey Jersey, officially the Bailiwick of Jersey, is a British Crown Dependency
off the coast of Normandy, France. As well as the island of Jersey itself, the bailiwick includes two groups of small islands
that are no longer permanently inhabited, the Minquiers and Écréhous, and the Pierres de Lecq and other rocks
and reefs.
Jersey is a self-governing parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy, with its own
financial, legal and judicial systems.
The island of Jersey is the largest of the Channel Islands. Although
the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey are often referred to collectively as 'the Channel Islands', they are not a
constitutional or political unit. Jersey has a separate relationship to the British Crown from the other Crown Dependencies
of Guernsey and the Isle of Man. It is not part of the United Kingdom, and has an international identity separate from that
of the UK but the United Kingdom is constitutionally responsible for the defence of Jersey. Jersey is not a part of the European
Union but has a special relationship with it, being treated as part of the European Community for the purposes of free trade
in goods.
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