Andaman Islands

American  

plural noun

1. a group of islands of India in the E part of the Bay of Bengal, W of the Malay Peninsula, part of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. 2,508 sq. mi. (6,496 sq. km).

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Andaman Islands British  

plural noun

1. a group of islands in the E Bay of Bengal, part of the Indian territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Area: 6408 sq km (2474 sq miles). Pop: 314 804 (2001)

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Example Sentences

Some of the most distinctive languages on Earth are still spoken, but just barely, by people who live on the Andaman Islands off the coast of India.

From Scientific American • Jun. 1, 2023

These people of the Andaman Islands equate scent with selfhood.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2022

The off-limits remote island is the size of Manhattan and part of the Indian Andaman Islands.

From The Guardian • Nov. 27, 2018

North Sentinel is part of the Andaman Islands and sits at the intersection of the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2018

Only on the remote Andaman Islands do languages unrelated to the South Chinese language families persist—the last linguistic survivors of what must have been hundreds of now extinct aboriginal Southeast Asian languages.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond