Car Nicobar tehsil

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Car Nicobar is one of 2 local administrative divisions of the Indian district of Nicobar, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

It is a division known locally as a tehsil, roughly equivalent to a county in its range of administrative powers. It is located in the Nicobar Islands, and incorporates only the territory of the Nicobars' most populous island, Car Nicobar. The tehsil of Nancowry administers all the other Nicobar islands.

Car Nicobar tehsil's population according to 2001 Census of India figures was 20,292.