Territorial change
Open on the mapAldabra, Farquhar and Desroches: United Kingdom → Seychelles (cession)
1976 · Aldabra, Farquhar and Desroches
What the records say
- When
- 1976
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Aldabra, Farquhar and Desroches
- Coordinates
- 9.00° S, 50.00° E
- Process
- cession
- Type
- Cession (part yielded to other entity)
- Area km2
- 27
- Gaining
- Seychelles
- Losing
- United Kingdom
Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.
British Indian Ocean Territory
British Overseas Territory in the Indian Ocean
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.
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation