The islands' capital, Port Blair, is located on South Andaman.

All of these islands are in the form of peaks of a submerged mountain chain.

Each island has a central highland surrounded by bordering flat lands sloping in all directions and finally merged into coastal tracts.

According to the 2011 census of India, the archipelago had 315,530 inhabitants.

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