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British Indian Ocean Territory
- Capital
- Diego Garcia
- Currency
- USD
- United States Dollar
- Local time
- Indian Ocean TimeUTC+06:00
- Calling code
- +246
- Driving
- On the right
Facts
British Indian Ocean Territory in figures
From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.
- Capital
- Diego Garcia
- Currency
- United States Dollar USDToday's indicative rate: The same as your currencyIndicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
- Languages
- Official: EnglishSpoken: English
- Time zones
- Indian Ocean TimeUTC+06:00
- Calling code
- +246
- Driving
- On the right
- Plugs
- Not recorded in Wikidata
- Emergency numbers
- Not recorded in Wikidata
- Population
- 4,000 (GeoNames, no reference year)
- Area
- 60 km²
- Internet domain
- .io
- Land borders
- None: an island or a coastal territory with no land border recorded
Cities
Cities in British Indian Ocean Territory
All 0 places in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.
Visas and entry
Visas and entry
Entry rules depend on your passport and change often, so this page does not state them. Check the destination government's official immigration website, or ask our visa desk to check your case for you.
Plan it
Plan a trip to British Indian Ocean Territory
Tell us where in British Indian Ocean Territory, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.