Jirkatang is a small village in the

South Andaman District South Andaman district is one of the 3 districts of the Indian Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands located in the Bay of Bengal. Port Blair town, the capital of the Union Territory is the district headquarters. The area covered by this d ...

of the

Andaman and Nicobar islands The Andaman and Nicobar Islands is a union territory of India consisting of 572 islands, of which 37 are inhabited, at the junction of the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. The territory is about north of Aceh in Indonesia and separated f ...

union territory in

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. Jirkatang is located along the National Highway 4 (India) and has a check post. Jirkatang on Google Maps is shown as 'Jirkatang Camp No. 7'. Jirkatang, following the National Highway 4, is about 44 kilometres (27 miles) away from the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands,

Port Blair Port Blair () 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 An ...

. Due to the lack of maintained infrastructure in the area, a regular trip between the two places would take around an hour.

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{{coord missing, Andaman and Nicobar Islands Villages in South Andaman district