North and Middle Andaman district is one of the 3 districts of the

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n Union Territory of

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 ...

located in the

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Mayabunder Mayabunder is a town and a tehsil in the northern part of Middle Andaman Island, Andaman Archipelago, India. The name is also spelled Maya Bunder or Maya Bandar. As of 2001, the county had 23,912 inhabitants, of which 3182 were in the town.Gove ...

town is the district headquarters. The area covered by this district is 3251.85 km².

History

This district was created on August 18, 2006, by bifurcating the erstwhile Andaman district, which included all three tehsils of Mayabunder sub-division of this erstwhile district.

Geography

North and Middle Andaman district occupies an area of .

Demography

According to the 2011 census North and Middle Andaman district has a

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of 105,597, roughly equal to the nation of

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. This gives it a ranking of 614th in India (out of a total of 640). The district has a population density of . Its

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over the decade 2001-2011 was -0.07%. North And Middle Andaman has a

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of 925

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for every 1000 males, and a

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of 84.25%.

Language

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is the most spoken language in North and Middle Andaman Islands. As of 2011 census, Bengali is spoken as the first language by 53.79 per cent of the district's population followed by Sadri (11.06%), Telugu (6.47%), Kurukh (6.17%),

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(5.99%), Tamil (5.94%),

Malayalam Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian languages, Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 2 ...

(3.5%), Nicobarese (0.57%) and others. Karen people, a Sino-Tibetan ethnic group from

Kayin State Kayin State ( my, ကရင်ပြည်နယ်, ; kjp, ဖၠုံခါန်ႋကၞင့်, italics=no; ksw, ကညီကီၢ်စဲၣ်, ), also known by the endonyms Kawthoolei and Karen State, is a state of Myanmar. The ...

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, numbering about 2000 people are also present in eight villages in the

and

Diglipur Diglipur (sometimes spelled Diglipore) is the largest town of North Andaman Island, in the Andaman Archipelago, India. It is located on the southern side of Aerial Bay, at above sea level, north of Port Blair. It is crossed by the Kalpong Riv ...

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Religion

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is followed by majority of the people in North and Middle Andaman district. Christianity is followed by a considerable population.

Divisions

The district comprises 3 tehsils,

and

Rangat Rangat is a town on the Middle Andaman Island, Andaman Archipelago. It is also one of the three counties (''tehsils'') administrative divisions of the North and Middle Andaman district, in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands union territory of In ...

Economy

As of 2010, the district's chief agricultural products were rice (about 6500 ha), coconuts (3600 ha), rabi

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(2900 ha),

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s (1300 ha), and bananas (650 ha).Government of India (2011),
Andaman and Nicobar Islands Statistical Hand-Book - North and Middle Andaman, 2007-08 To 2009-10
'

References

External links

North and Middle Andaman district official website
{{North and Middle Andaman district , state=collapsed Districts of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands States and territories established in 2006 2006 establishments in India