Geography
Northern Group:
- Car Nicobar (126,9 km²)
- Battimaly (2,01 km², uninhabited)
Central Group:
- Chaura, Chowra or Sanenyo (8,2 km²)
- Teressa or Luroo (101,4 km²)
- Bompuka or Poahat (13,3 km²)
- Katchal (174,4 km²)
- Camorta (188,2 km²)
- Nancowry or Nancowrie (66,9 km²)
- Trinket (until 2004 86,3 km², surface greatly reduced after the Tsunami)
- Laouk or "Isle of Man" (0,01 km²) (uninhabited)
- Tillangchong (16,84 km²) (uninhabited)
Southern Group (Sambelong):
- Great Nicobar (1045,1 km², largest island of the Nicobars; 9,440 inhabitants in 2001)
- Little Nicobar (159,1 km²; 430 inhabitants)
- Kondul (4,6 km²; 150 inhabitants in 2001, evacuated in 2004)
- Pulo Milo or Pillomilo (Milo Island; 1,3 km²; 150 inhabitants)
- Meroe (0,52), Trak (0,26), Treis (0,26), Menchal (1,30), Kabra (0,52), Pigeon and Megapod (0,2) (all uninhabited)
Indira Point (6°45’10″N and 93°49’36″E) is the southernmost point of the Great Nicobar Island and India itself, about 150 km north of Sumatra, Indonesia.
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