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How are city people different from the people living in the Andaman Islands?

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Hint: People living in the Andaman Islands are different from People living in Andaman City that Islands’ people manage their food by fishing, hunting and forest vegetations including fruits and also they come to the city and go back after getting the essential things, while the city people fulfill their needs by suppliers, where many merchants carry essential and others goods to the city directly.

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 Andaman & Nicobar Islands is the Union Territory of India and established on 1st November 1956. Andaman & Nicobar Islands comprising 572 islands of which 38 are inhabited. The tri-service command of the Indian Armed Forces is located on this island. The Andaman & Nicobar lies in the Bay of Bengal. The capital of the Territory is Port Blair and the total land area is approx 8,250 Square Kilometer.
Andaman Island and Nicobar Island are separated by the 150 Km wide Ten Degree Channel. The covering area of Andaman & Nicobar Islands is 6 Degree to 14 Degree North Latitude and 92 Degree to 94 Degree East Longitude. There are 3 districts in this territory. Such as:- First is North and Middle Andaman District with Maya-under as capital, second is South Andaman District with Port Blair as Capital and third is Nicobar District with Car Nicobar as capital.
The only volcano in India, Barren Island of Andaman and Nicobar, is an Active Volcano and had last erupted in 2017. Indira Point is the last village in the Nicobar district and also the southernmost point of the Republic of India.

Note: In 1789, The British East India Company set up their Naval Base and Penal Colony Chatham Island near Great Andaman, where now lies the town of Port Blair. The Islands were abandoned due to outbreaks of Malaria disease.
In 1858, the British again established a colony at Port Blair and the colony came to include the infamous Cellular Jail which was known as Kala Pani.

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