Farewell, Chagos
The government announced that it would hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. There are 13 other British Overseas Territories, only ten of which have a permanent population. The most populated are:
Cayman Islands 78,554
Bermuda 62,506
Turks and Caicos 38,191
Gibraltar 33,701
British Virgin Islands 31,758
– Pitcairn Island is the only British Overseas Territory in the Pacific Ocean, which has been integral to the claims that, even now, the sun never sets on the British Empire – even if there is an overlap of just 20 minutes between sunrise in Diego Garcia and Pitcairn Island in June.
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