| Vikas Nagar | |
|---|---|
| village | |
  Vikas Nagar Location in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India  Vikas Nagar Vikas Nagar (India) | |
| Coordinates: 8°07′08″N93°30′58″E / 8.119°N 93.516°E Coordinates: 8°07′08″N93°30′58″E / 8.119°N 93.516°E | |
| Country | India |
| State | Andaman and Nicobar Islands |
| District | Nicobar |
| Tehsil | Nancowry |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 235 |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
| Census code | 645130 |
Vikas Nagar is a village in the Nicobar district of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. It is located in the Nancowry tehsil. [1] It is populated by people from the former Trinket village, which was evacuated after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. [2]
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, one of the seven union territories 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, also known as the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh largest country by area and with more than 1.3 billion people, it is the second most populous country as well as 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 northeast; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives, while its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.
