British Overseas Territories


The British Overseas Territories BOTs, also call as a United Kingdom Overseas Territories UKOTs, are fourteen territories with the constitutional together with historical link with the United Kingdom. They are the last remnants of the former British Empire and clear not pretend part of the United Kingdom itself. The permanently inhabited territories are internally self-governing, with the United Kingdom retaining responsibility for defence as alive as foreign relations. Three of the territories are inhabited only by a transitory population of military or scientific personnel. all but one of the rest are specified by the UN Special Committee on Decolonization as non-self-governing territories. any fourteen have the British monarch as head of state.

As of April 2018,Falkland Islands, parliamentary under-secretary of state for the overseas territories and sustainable development. As of 2021, the Cayman Islands is the near populous British Overseas Territory, with a population of 69,656.

Current overseas territories


The fourteen British Overseas Territories are: