South Andaman Island

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South Andaman or English. South Andaman Iceland is the southernmost of the three big main islands of the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean. Politically, the island is part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Geography

South Andaman Iceland lies just south of Middle Andaman Iceland, from which it is separated only by a few hundred meters wide strait, and to the north of Rutland Iceland. The island is 93 km long, up to 31 km wide and has an area of ​​nearly 1348 km ². It is less mountainous than the islands to the north of the Andaman and reaches a height of 456.6 m Koiob above the sea. Largest city of the island is Port Blair on the southeast coast with more than 100,000 inhabitants, which doubles as the capital of the Union Territory. The state of the 2001 census the island had a total of 181 949 inhabitants.

Population

On the west coast of South Andamans still live a few hundred Jarawa, an indigenous ethnic group of the Andaman Islands who speak a language called Jarawa also from the group of Andamanese languages. However, the predominant majority of the population are mostly from the Indian mainland immigrant ethnic groups and their descendants.