The UK's 14 Overseas Territories, From Pitcairn to Chagos
The UK holds territory on every continent except Australia — but the fourteen British Overseas Territories and three Crown Dependencies are not the same kind of thing, and most coverage blurs the difference. This episode maps the whole scattered system: Gibraltar and the Cyprus Sovereign Base Areas, the Atlantic territories, and Pitcairn, thirty-five people descended from Bounty mutineers with the world's smallest democracy. Along the way, the numbers that surprise people: Cayman and Bermuda together are roughly half the remaining population, and three territories have no permanent civilian…
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