Episkopi Cantonment

Coordinates: 34°40′34″N 32°50′15″E / 34.676°N 32.8375°E / 34.676; 32.8375

Episkopi Cantonment in Akrotiri

Episkopi Cantonment is the capital of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, a British Overseas Territory on the island of Cyprus, administered as a Sovereign Base Area. It is located in the middle of the Western Sovereign Base Area, one of the two areas which comprise the territory. Although it is not the largest of the British military bases on the island, it is however home to both the civilian and military administration headquarters of the Sovereign Base Areas.

Command

Main article: British Forces Cyprus

Episkopi is the current command centre of British Forces Cyprus. The commander of the Sovereign Base Areas/British Forces Cyprus (CBF) is either a Major General or an Air Vice Marshal, alternating every three years transferring the command between the British Army and the Royal Air Force. Consequently, the Deputy British Forces Cyprus (DBFC) is from the opposite service of the commander, either a Brigadier or an Air Commodore.

The current CBF is Major General Richard Cripwell and the DCBF is Air Commodore Andrew Huggett.

Episkopi Cantonment is home to the Sovereign Base Areas Administration, the civilian authority in the territory.

Constituent countries	Crown dependencies	British Overseas Territories

London, England Edinburgh, Scotland Cardiff, Wales Belfast, Northern Ireland	Saint Helier, Jersey Saint Peter Port, Guernsey Douglas, Isle of Man	Episkopi Cantonment, Akrotiri and Dhekelia The Valley, Anguilla Hamilton, Bermuda Rothera, British Antarctic Territory Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory Road Town, British Virgin Islands George Town, Cayman Islands	Stanley, Falkland Islands Gibraltar, Gibraltar Brades, Montserrat Adamstown, Pitcairn Islands Jamestown, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha King Edward Point, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Cockburn Town, Turks and Caicos Islands

Capitals of Asia

Dependent territories and states with limited recognition are in italics

North and Central Asia	South Asia	Southeast Asia	West and Southwest Asia

Ashgabat, Turkmenistan Astana, Kazakhstan* Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Dushanbe, Tajikistan Moscow, Russia* Tashkent, Uzbekistan East Asia Beijing, China Hong Kong, Hong Kong (China) Macau, Macau (China) Pyongyang, North Korea Seoul, South Korea Taipei, Taiwan Tokyo, Japan Ulan Bator, Mongolia	Dhaka, Bangladesh Diego Garcia, BIOT (UK) Islamabad, Pakistan Kathmandu, Nepal Kotte, Sri Lanka Malé, Maldives New Delhi, India Thimphu, Bhutan	Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Bangkok, Thailand Dili, East Timor Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island (Australia) Hanoi, Vietnam Jakarta, Indonesia* Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Manila, Philippines Naypyidaw, Myanmar Phnom Penh, Cambodia Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea Singapore Vientiane, Laos West Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australia)	Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Amman, Jordan Ankara, Turkey* Baghdad, Iraq Baku, Azerbaijan* Beirut, Lebanon Cairo, Egypt* Damascus, Syria Doha, Qatar E. Jerusalem, Palestine † Episkopi, Akrotiri and Dhekelia (UK) Jerusalem, Israel † Kabul, Afghanistan Kuwait City, Kuwait Manama, Bahrain	Muscat, Oman Nicosia, Cyprus* North Nicosia, Northern Cyprus* Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Sana'a, Yemen Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh* Sukhumi, Abkhazia* Tbilisi, Georgia* Tehran, Iran Tskhinvali, South Ossetia* Yerevan, Armenia*

*Transcontinental country.
† Both Israel and Palestinians claim Jerusalem as capital. Tel Aviv contains most foreign embassies in Israel; Ramallah is the administrative seat of the Palestinian Authority.

Episkopi Cantonment

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