Ferrargunj is one of five local administrative divisions of the
Indian district
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of
Andaman, part of the
India
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union territory of
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands is a union territory of India consisting of 572 islands, of which 37 are inhabited, at the junction of the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. The territory is about north of Aceh in Indonesia and separated f ...
. The name is after
Michael Lloyd Ferrar Lieutenant-Colonel Michael Lloyd Ferrar (16 April 1876 – 25 February 1971) was a British Indian army officer and civil servant who worked as a chief commissioner of the Penal Settlement at Port Blair on Andaman Islands and Nicobar Islands.
Born ...
, a commissioner and butterfly collector.
It is a division known locally as a ''
tehsil
A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administ ...
'', roughly equivalent to a
county
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in its range of administrative powers. It is located in the
Andaman Islands.
Ferrargunj's population according to 2001
Census of India figures was 48,626.
Cities and towns in South Andaman district
South Andaman district
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