FACTS ABOUT DIEGO GARCIA|ABM HISTORY
Channel: abm history
Date: 2022-02-25

Diego Garcia is an island of the British Indian Ocean Territory, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom. It is a militarized atoll just south of the equator in the central Indian Ocean, and the largest of 60 small islands comprising the Chagas Archipelago.
Area: 30 km²
Max length: 24 km
Population: 4,239
Diego Garcia is the largest of 55 islands split off by the United Kingdom from its Seychelles and Mauritius colonies to create the British Indian Ocean Territory in 1965. Diego Garcia became a critical node of American expeditionary warfare in Afghanistan and Iraq.