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The capital and largest city is Port Blair (officially Sri Vijaya Puram [41]), located 1,190 km (740 mi) from Chennai and 1,255 km (780 mi) from Kolkata on the Indian mainland. [31] Barren Island, the only active volcano in India, is located in the Andaman Sea. [42] [43] [44] The islands have a 1,962 km (1,219 mi) long coast-line. [45]
Port Blair (pronunciation ⓘ), officially named Sri Vijaya Puram, [4] is the capital city of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a union territory of India in the Bay of Bengal. It is also the local administrative sub-division ( tehsil ) of the islands, the headquarters for the district of South Andaman , and the territory's only notified town.
The capital city of the Andaman Islands, Port Blair. Port Blair is the chief community on the islands, and the administrative centre of the Union Territory. The Andaman Islands form a single administrative district within the Union Territory, the Andaman district (the Nicobar Islands were separated and established as the new Nicobar district in ...
The borders of the state of Meghalaya, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh are shown as interpreted from the North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971, but has yet to be verified. Territorial waters The limit of the territorial waters of India extends to twelve nautical miles measured from the appropriate baseline.
It is located 540 km and more than a day's sea voyage from Port Blair, [18] the capital city and main port of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It is approximately 163 km by sea from Sumatra, Indonesia. [17] Rondo Island, Indonesia's northernmost island in Sabang district of Aceh province of Sumatra, lies south of Indira point. [19]
The island belongs to the Great Andaman Chain and is located 73 km (45 mi) north from Port Blair.It is the central island of the Great Andaman archipelago of India, with a total area of 1,536 km 2.