A d-dimensional annulus graph with radii \(R_1\) and \(R_2\) (here \(R_2\ge R_1\ge 0\) ) is a graph embeddable in \(\mathbb R^d\) so that two vertices u and v form an edge if and only if their images in the embedding are at distance in the interval \([R_1, R_2]\) . In this paper we show that the family \(\mathcal A_d(R_1,R_2)\) of d-dimensional annulus graphs with radii \(R_1\) and \(R_2\) is uniquely characterised by \(R_2/R_1\) when this ratio is sufficiently large. Moreover, as a step towards a better understanding of the structure of \(\mathcal A_d(R_1,R_2)\) , we show that \(\sup _{G\in \mathcal A_d(R_1,R_2)} \chi (G)/\omega (G)\) is given by \(\exp (O(d))\) for all \(R_1,R_2\) satisfying \(R_2\ge R_1 > 0\) and also \(\exp (\Omega (d))\) if moreover \(R_2/R_1\ge 1.2\) .