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dd/mm/yyyy. The British Overseas Territories (BOTs) are the fourteen territories with a constitutional and historical link with the United Kingdom that, while not forming part of the United Kingdom itself, are part of its sovereign territory. [1][2][3] The permanently inhabited territories are delegated varying degrees of internal self ...
The Cayman Islands (/ ˈ k eɪ m ən /) is a self-governing British Overseas Territory, and the largest by population.The 264-square-kilometre (102-square-mile) territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman, which are located south of Cuba and north-east of Honduras, between Jamaica and Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.
The Pitcairn Islands are a British Overseas Territory; defence is the responsibility of the Ministry of Defence and the British Armed Forces. [27] The Royal Navy maintains two offshore patrol vessels in the Indo-Pacific region, HMS Tamar and HMS Spey. Either may be periodically employed for sovereignty protection and other duties around ...
The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) is an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom situated in the Indian Ocean, halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia.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). [3]
In a 2013 sovereignty referendum, almost all Falklanders voted in favour of remaining a UK overseas territory. The territory's sovereignty status is part of an ongoing dispute between Argentina and the UK. The population (3,662 inhabitants in 2021) [2] is primarily native-born Falkland Islanders, the majority of British
As a British overseas territory, the UK is responsible for Anguilla's military defence, [7] [8] although there are no active garrisons or armed forces present in the territory. Since 2020, the Royal Navy has forward-deployed the offshore patrol vessel HMS Medway long-term to the Caribbean for patrol and sovereignty protection duties. [ 37 ]
Territory of birth Population of territory (Most recent) Population residing in the UK (exclusive from previous column, 2001) Notes Anguilla: 12,800 498 Up to 4% of living people born in Anguilla now reside in the UK Bermuda: 64,482 2,986 Up to 4% of living people born in Bermuda now reside in the UK British Antarctic Territory: 200 (staff) 0
www.gov.gs. South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI) is a British Overseas Territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean. It is a remote and inhospitable collection of islands, consisting of South Georgia and a chain of smaller islands known as the South Sandwich Islands. South Georgia is 165 kilometres (103 mi) long and 35 kilometres ...