Population is about 3,000 people, the 233rd largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 1,000,000 of everyone alive.
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Br. Indian Ocean Ter.
British Indian Ocean Territory ยท British Indian Ocean Territory
Seven seas (open ocean)
ยท Seven seas (open ocean)
0Population
60kmยฒ of land
$40KGDP / person
-Capital
- ISO codes
- IO ยท IOT
- Density
- 50 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- English
- Currency
- United States dollar (USD)
- Dial code
- +246
- Internet domain
- .io
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 6.1910ยฐ S, 71.3480ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Indian
- UN region
- Africa ยท Seven seas (open ocean)
- Economy
- Developed region: nonG7
- Income group
- High income: nonOECD
- Total GDP
- $120M
- Sovereignty
- Not independent ยท not a UN member
- Borders
- None
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By the numbers
How Br. Indian Ocean Ter. stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
233rd
of 242 ยท 0.00% of world population
Land area
225th
of 242 ยท 0.00% of world land
GDP per person
42nd
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
155th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Br. Indian Ocean Ter.
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Covers 60 kmยฒ, making it the 225th largest country here.
Population density is about 50 people per kmยฒ.
Has no land neighbours - it is an island nation, surrounded entirely by water.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Indian/Chagos.
The currency is the United States dollar (USD, symbol $).
The official language is English.
Dials on +246 and uses the .io internet domain.
Annual GDP is around $0 billion - the 227th largest economy here, or about $40,000 per person.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Indian/Chagos
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UTC+06:00