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Great Nicobar Subdivision
Administrative division of the Indian district of Nicobar From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Great Nicobar Subdivision is one of the three local administrative divisions of the Indian district of Nicobar, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.[3] It is located in the Southern Nicobar Islands.
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Demography
It is a multilingual tehsil. Population of major languages are:
Tamil 1,091
Telugu 1,052
Nicobarese 1,003
Hindi 1,088
Kurukh 903
Sadri 817
Bengali 584
Malayalam 339
Punjabi 334
Santali 209
Mundari 177
Marathi 151
Munda 116
Languages of Great Nicobar tehsil (2011)
- Tamil (13.0%)
- Telugu (12.6%)
- Nicobarese (12.0%)
- Hindi (10.9%)
- Kurukh (10.8%)
- Sadri (9.76%)
- Bengali (6.98%)
- Malayalam (4.05%)
- Punjabi (3.99%)
- Santali (2.50%)
- Mundari (2.12%)
- Marathi (1.80%)
- Munda (1.39%)
- Kharia (1.38%)
- Others (6.76%)
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Administration
The subdivision includes two tehsils:
- Campbell Bay, which includes the southern part of Great Nicobar and its HQ is Campbell Bay
- Little Nicobar, which includes the northern part of Great Nicobar, as well as nearby islands, and its HQ is at Afra Bay
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Location of Car Nicobar island
References
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