Overseas military bases of the United Kingdom

Overseas military bases of the United Kingdom enable the British Armed Forces to conduct expeditionary warfare and maintain a forward presence.

Bases tend to be located in or near areas of strategic or diplomatic importance, often used for the build-up or resupply of military forces, as was seen during the 1982 Falklands War and the use of RAF Ascension Island as a staging post.

However, some sixty facilities are run directly by the British Armed Forces, including seventeen installations on Cyprus.

Allied countries host British military personnel in some sixty-nine facilities, including in Oman, at sixteen locations, and Saudi Arabia, where there are fifteen.

[12][13] In the Chagos Islands, the British and American military jointly operate the Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia.

There is also the Omani-British Joint Training Area, which is also used as a Land Regional Hub for expeditionary warfare by the British Army.

[28][29][30] RAF Mount Pleasant is the largest of six sites in the Falkland Islands, which is the only territory in South America with British military personnel.

Six British Overseas Territories also maintain their own locally raised units for home defence and security: