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British Indian Ocean Territory
British Overseas Territory in the Indian Ocean
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Chagos Islands (1) · Diego Garcia (1) · sovereignty (1) · US military base (1) · UK-Mauritius dispute (1) · International Court of Justice (1) · British Indian Ocean Territory (1)
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The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) is a British Overseas Territory situated in the Indian Ocean. The territory comprises the seven atolls of the Chagos Archipelago with over 1,000 individual islands, many very small, amounting to a total land area of 60 square kilometres (23 square miles). The largest and most southerly island is Diego Garcia, 27 square kilometres (10 square miles), the site of a Joint Military Facility of the United Kingdom and the United States.
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