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British Indian Ocean Territory
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| Capital | administered from London |
| Government | overseas territory of the United Kingdom |
| Area | 60 sq km |
| Population | approx. 4,000 UK and US military personnel and civilian contractors on Diego Garcia (July 2006 est.) |
| Calling Code | +246 (Diego Garcia) |
| Internet TLD | .io |
| Time Zone | UTC +6 |
British Indian Ocean Territory is unsurprisingly among the islands of the Indian Ocean, south of India, about halfway between Madagascar and Indonesia.
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Established as a territory of the UK in 1965, a number of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) islands were transferred to the Seychelles when it attained independence in 1976, leaving only the six main island groups comprising the Chagos Archipelago of 2,300 islands. The largest and most southerly of the islands, Diego Garcia, contains a joint UK-US naval support facility. All of the remaining islands are uninhabited. Approximately 3,000 former agricultural workers, earlier indigenous residents in the islands (often referred to as Chagossians or Ilois) were relocated primarily to Mauritius but also to the Seychelles, between 1967 and 1973. In 2000, a British High Court ruling invalidated the local immigration order which had excluded them from the archipelago, but upheld the special military status of Diego Garcia. No timetable has been set for the Ilois return, but when they do they plan to reestablish copra production and fishing.
[edit] Climate
Tropical marine; hot, humid, moderated by trade winds.
[edit] Landscape
Flat and low (most areas do not exceed four meters in elevation).
[edit] Get in
Entry to Diego Garcia is extremely limited due to the large American and British military presence on the island.
[edit] By plane
There is an military airport on Diego Garcia.
[edit] By boat
There is a harbor on Diego Garcia.
[edit] Get around
There is paved road between the airport and the harbor on Diego Garcia.
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