ABSTRACT
The Union Territory of Daman and Diu consists of two enclaves on the north-western coast of India, flanking the mouth of Gujarat’s Gulf of Khambhat (Cambay). Both districts of the territory are bordered by Gujarat state and lie on the Arabian Sea. Daman and Diu, together with Goa, together constituted a Union Territory formed after the annexation of Portuguese India in 1961. Goa became a separate state of the Indian Union on 30 May 1987, when Daman and Diu remained as a territory administered by the central authorities. Daman (formerly Damão), on the east side of the Gulf of Khambhat, is the larger district, having an area of 72 sq km (28 sq miles). Some 786 km (488 miles) to the west, and a little north, is the island district of Diu, covering 40 sq km. The total
territorial area of 112 sq km, therefore, is slightly smaller than that of urban Chandigarh, with only Lakshadweep, of all India’s territories, smaller than Daman and Diu.
