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Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands are the only British Overseas Territories with recognised National Olympic Committees (NOCs); the British Olympic Association is recognised as the appropriate NOC for athletes from the other territories, and thus athletes who hold a British passport are eligible to represent Great ...
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... Capitals of British Overseas Territories (9 C, 13 P)
British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies cities began as settlements in foreign lands controlled by England during medieval times from the 12th century as English overseas possessions, later from 1707 after union with Scotland becoming termed as the British Empire comprising Crown Colonies, which after a reduction of these due to countries being granted independence, became known as ...
The special territories of EU member states are categorised under three headings: nine Outermost Regions (OMR) that form part of the European Union, though they benefit from derogations from some EU laws due to their geographical remoteness from mainland Europe; thirteen Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) that do not form part of the ...
The list includes all countries listed in the List of countries, the French overseas departments, the Spanish and Portuguese overseas regions and inhabited overseas dependencies. See List of extinct countries, empires, etc. and Former countries in Europe after 1815 for articles about countries that are no longer in existence.
The list below includes all entities falling even partially under any of the various common definitions of Europe, geographical or political.Fifty generally recognised sovereign states, Kosovo with limited, but substantial, international recognition, and four largely unrecognised de facto states with limited to no recognition have territory in Europe and/or membership in international European ...
The British claim in Antarctica is shown in shaded blue. [1] The United Kingdom's exclusive economic zone is the fifth largest in the world at 6,805,586 km 2 (2,627,651 sq mi). [2] It comprises the exclusive economic zones surrounding the United Kingdom, [3] the Crown Dependencies, and the British Overseas Territories.
Geography of the United Kingdom by British Overseas Territory or Crown Dependency. Subcategories This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total.