What we can learn by looking at where world powers have military bases

How do you measure a country's global influence? Military might is one way, or as we have done below, via a visualisation of where countries have permanent bases.

Technology, nuclear capabilities, air and sea capacity and sheer numbers all have a bearing on military power. But these maps, from Statista, help show the geographic spread of the armies of the permanent members of the UN Security Council.

The UK has eight overseas military bases, including one in Diego Garcia, a tiny atoll in the Indian Ocean that was also part-leased to the US.

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