Diego Garcia

• Details
• Tagged entities

Properties

SES ID

• 9644

Notation

• 9644

In scheme

• Geography

Broader

• British Indian Ocean Territory
• Indian Ocean Islands

Related

• Ilois

Scope note

• Use Ilois for the inhabitants of Diego Garcia and the Chagos Islands. Use the territory name only when no issues involving people are mentioned.

Definition

• One of the former Chagos Islands, since renamed British Indian Ocean Territory, leased to the USA from 1970 onwards as a military base. The people of the islands, the Ilois, were displaced, mainly to Mauritius and the Seychelles.