The Chagos Archipelago or Chagos Islands (formerly the Bassas de Chagas, and later the Oil Islands) is a group of seven atolls comprising more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean and administered as part of the British Indian Ocean Territory. The archipelago is claimed by Mauritius.
The Chagos Islands had been home to the Chagossians, a Bourbonnais Creole-speaking people, until the United Kingdom expelled them from the archipelago at the request of the United States between 1967 and 1973 .
Description[]
The flag flag is used by the Chagossian people and consists of three unequal horizontal bands of orange, black, and blue.
Symbolism[]
- The orange stripe represents the plantation on Chagos which is now closed
- The black stripe is for all the struggle and the bad moments experienced by the Chagosian people.
- The (light) blue stripe is for the lagoons of Chagos and for the future.
Flag Proposals[]
The Flag proposal created by XtremeRad on 2025.
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