Andaman district is a District of India, one of two districts in the IndianUnion Territory (UT) of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The district's administrative territory encompasses all of the Andaman Islands, which are located in the Indian Ocean (Bay of Bengal, bordering with the Andaman Sea). The district government is headed by a Deputy Commissioner, who in turn reports into the Lt. Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The divisions of a district. ... The divisions of a district. ... ... Map of Andaman and Nicobar Islands with an extra detailed area around Port Blair The Andaman and Nicobar Islands is a union territory of India. ... Satellite photo of the Andaman Islands The Andaman Islands are a group of islands in the Bay of Bengal, and are part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Union Territory of India. ... A map showing the location of the Bay of Bengal. ... The Andaman Sea is a body of water to the southeast of the Bay of Bengal, south of Myanmar and west of Indian Ocean. ...
The capital of the district is the township of Port Blair, which is also the main town and capital of Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT. Port Blair is the largest town in the Andaman Islands and the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands union territory of India. ...
The total population of Andaman district as per 2001 Census of India figures was 314,084. 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...
Geography
There are approximately 550 islands which make up the Andaman district, 26 of which are inhabited. The district has a total area of some 6,408 km2. Approximately 90% of the islands are forested or uncultivated; urban area is only 16.6 km2. Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Urbanization is the expansion of a city or metropolitan area, namely the proportion of total population or area in urban localities or areas (cities and towns), or the increase of this proportion over time. ...
The Andaman Islands form a single administrative district within the Union Territory, the Andamandistrict (the Nicobar district was separated and established as a new district in 1974).
About 29 km west of the Andamans are the dangerous Western Banks and Dalrymple Bank, rising to within a few fathoms of the surface of the sea and forming, with the two Sentinel Islands, the tops of a line of submarine hills parallel to the Andamans.
The Andamans may have been linked to Myanmar by a land bridge during the ice ages, and it is possible that the ancestors of the Andamanese reached the islands without crossing the sea.
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