Daman and Diu

[dee-oo]

noun

1. a union territory of NW India, on the Arabian Sea. 50 sq. mi. (130 sq. km).

Daman and Diu

/ dɑːˈmɑːn; ˈdiːuː /

noun

1. a union territory in W India: formerly a district of Portuguese India (1559–1961) then part of the union territory of Goa, Daman, and Diu (1961–87). Area: 112 sq km (43 sq miles). Pop: 158 059 (2001)

Example Sentences

The centrally administered territories I went to included Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Pondicherry.

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A few strips along the African coast, tenuously held by sufferance of the great powers, and bits of territory at Goa, Daman, and Diu in India, are the twentieth century remnants of Portugal's colonial empire.

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