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Diego Garcia

Location Indian Ocean, part of Chagos Archipelago
Latitude and longitude  6 57 S, 72 42 E
Sovereignty United Kingdom; also claimed by Mauritius
Political status notes Part of British Indian Ocean Territory
Land area in square kilometers 38

Legal documents online
Supreme Court of Judicature, Court of Appeal (Civil Division) (United Kingdom), Secretary of State for the Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs v Bancoult, R (on the application of), [2007] EWCA Civ 498 (23 May 2007) (sustaining right of Chagos Islanders to return to Chagos Islands, other than Diego Garcia)

Sources and other useful websites
United Nations System-Wide Earthwatch Island Directory

Selected articles on law and political status
The Chagos Islands - The Land Where Human Rights Hardly Ever Happened, by Richard Gifford, from volume 1 of Law, Social Justice & Global Development (2004)

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