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Diego Garcia, Indian Ocean, United Kingdom

This coral atoll is an extremely controversial British subject and military base in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Located south of the Maldives, the base was created by forcibly removing 2000 native Chagossians from the 17sq km island and is now home to between 3,000 & 5,000 service personnel, most of them British or American. The island itself has been at the center of several conspiracy theories, the most prominent of which being that the doomed Malaysian flight MH370 was landed at this island, a theory debunked by landing records.

Diego Garcia, Indian Ocean, United Kingdom