Nicobar & Andaman Islands

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Nicobar & Andaman Islands

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The Andaman and Nicobar islands make up a tropical archipelago of hundreds of islands at the juncture of the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea, 150 km (93 mi) north of Aceh on Sumatra, and south-west of Thailand and Myanmar (Burma). A territory of India, the islands are covered by tropical rain forests. Only a handful of them are inhabited.


 

Nicobar & Andaman islands