Territorial change
Open on the mapCocos (Keeling) Islands: United Kingdom → Australia (cession)
1955 · Cocos (Keeling) Islands
What the records say
- When
- 1955
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- Coordinates
- 12.17° S, 96.83° E
- Process
- cession
- Type
- Cession (part yielded to other entity)
- Pop
- 500
- Area km2
- 14
- Gaining
- Australia
- Losing
- United Kingdom
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
External territory of Australia
The Cocos (Keeling) Islands, officially the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, are an Australian external territory located in the Indian Ocean, comprising a small archipelago approximately midway between Australia and Sri Lanka and relatively close to the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
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- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation