British Indian Ocean Territory
Names and codes: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0 · Boundary: Natural Earth, public domain · Refresh date not recorded · Sources and licenses
Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- IO
- ISO alpha-3
- IOT
- ISO numeric
- 086
- FIPS 10-4
- IO
- GeoNames ID
- 1282588
Key facts
- Capital
- Diego Garcia
- Area
- 60 km²
- Population
- 4,000
- Currency
- Dollar (USD)
- Calling code
- +246
- Top-level domain
- .io
- Official languages
- en-IO
Continent
- Name
- Asia
- Code
- AS
- In this dataset
- 51 countries
Location
- Min latitude
- -7.432224216999941
- Min longitude
- 71.26099694100003
- Max latitude
- -5.2269833309999285
- Max longitude
- 72.49463951900003
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/IO?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 60,
"capital": "Diego Garcia",
"continent_code": "AS",
"currency_code": "USD",
"iso3_code": "IOT",
"iso_code": "IO",
"name": "British Indian Ocean Territory",
"population": 4000
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/IO/regions/v1/cities?country=IO/v1/postal-codes?country=IO/v1/timezones?country=IO
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- الإقليم البريطاني في المحيط الهندي
- Chinese
- 英属印度洋领地
- English
- British Indian Ocean Territory
- French
- Territoire britannique de l'océan Indien
- German
- Britisches Territorium im Indischen Ozean
- Hindi
- ब्रिटिश हिंद महासागरीय क्षेत्र
- Italian
- Territorio Britannico dell’Oceano Indiano
- Japanese
- 英領インド洋地域
- Korean
- 영국령 인도양 식민지
- Portuguese
- Território Britânico do Oceano Índico
- Russian
- Британская территория в Индийском океане
- Spanish
- Territorio Británico del Océano Índico
- Total language variants
- 132
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Indian/Chagos | UTC+06:00 | UTC+06:00 |
Postal code format
- Format
- BBND 1ZZ
- Pattern
BBND 1ZZ
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Downtown | 3,000 |
| Seabreeze village | 1,000 |
| Carcasse | 0 |
| East Point Settlement | 0 |
| Île Lubine | 0 |
| Minni Minni | 0 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 6
- First-level regions
- 0
- Postal codes
- 1
- Name languages
- 132
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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