Port Blair tehsil

Port Blair tehsil is one of 5 local administrative divisions of the Indian district of Andaman, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

It is a division known locally as a tehsil, roughly equivalent to a county in its range of administrative powers. Located in the Indian Ocean Andaman Islands, the tehsil of Port Blair is the largest tehsil in terms of both area and number of inhabitants, accounting for half of the district's overall population. Its headquarters is the township also called Port Blair, the district's major urban centre and capital of the Union Territory.

Port Blair tehsil's population according to 2001 Census of India figures was 159,845.


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 10/15/2012. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.