Akrotiri

Map of Akrotiri

Country	Akrotiri
Capital	Episkopi Cantonment (base administrative center for Akrotiri and Dhekelia)
Background	By terms of the 1960 Treaty of Establishment that created the independent Republic of Cyprus, the UK retained full sovereignty and jurisdiction over two areas of almost 254 square kilometers - Akrotiri and Dhekelia. The southernmost and smallest of these is the Akrotiri Sovereign Base Area, which is also referred to as the Western Sovereign Base Area.
Population	Approximately 15,700 live on the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia including 7,700 Cypriots, 3,600 Service and UK-based contract personnel, and 4,400 dependents
Languages	English, Greek
Location	Eastern Mediterranean, peninsula on the southwest coast of Cyprus
Geographic coordinates	34 37 N, 32 58 E
Map references	Middle East
Area	total: 123 sq km note: includes a salt lake and wetlands
Area - comparative	about 0.7 times the size of Washington, DC
Land boundaries	total: 47.4 km border countries: Cyprus 47.4 km
Coastline	56.3 km
Climate	temperate; Mediterranean with hot, dry summers and cool winters
Environment - current issues	hunting around the salt lake; note - breeding place for loggerhead and green turtles; only remaining colony of griffon vultures is on the base
Geography - note	British extraterritorial rights also extended to several small off-post sites scattered across Cyprus; of the Sovereign Base Area (SBA) land, 60% is privately owned and farmed, 20% is owned by the Ministry of Defense, and 20% is SBA Crown land