Chingen Chiengen | |
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village | |
  Chingen Location in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India  Chingen Chingen (India) | |
| Coordinates: 6°49′47″N93°53′15″E / 6.8297667°N 93.8875654°E Coordinates: 6°49′47″N93°53′15″E / 6.8297667°N 93.8875654°E | |
| Country | India |
| State | Andaman and Nicobar Islands |
| District | Nicobar |
| Tehsil | Great Nicobar |
| Elevation | 19 m (62 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 12 |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| 2011 census code | 645189 |
Chingen is a village in the Nicobar district of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. It is located in the Great Nicobar tehsil. [1]
Nicobar district is one of three districts in the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The district's administrative territory encompasses all of the Nicobar Islands, which are located in the Indian Ocean, between the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. The headquarters of the district is the village of Malacca, located on the island of Car Nicobar.
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands, is a Union territory of India comprising 572 islands of which 37 are inhabited, are a group of islands at the juncture of the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea.
India is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.
