{"id":10757,"date":"2025-10-10T11:08:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10757"},"modified":"2025-10-10T12:40:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T07:10:43","slug":"coco-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/coco-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Coco Islands Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Myanmar has assured India that there is no Chinese presence at Coco Islands in Bay of Bengal.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Coco Islands<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Location:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> They are a small group of <\/span><b>islands located in the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bay-of-bengal\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bay of Bengal.<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Great Coco Island,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the largest in the group, lies just 55 km from <\/span><b>India\u2019s strategic Andaman and Nicobar Islands.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are part of the <\/span><b>Yangon Region of Myanmar.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Geography:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is geologically an extended division of <\/span><b>the Arakan Mountains or Rakhine Mountains<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, submerges as a chain of islands in the Bay of Bengal for a long stretch and emerges again in the form of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are part of the same topography as <\/span><b>India\u2019s Andaman &amp; Nicobar Islands.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>History of Coco Islands<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the early 19th century, the British government in India established a penal colony in the Andaman for the convicts in the Indian subcontinent, and the Coco Islands were a source of food for it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The British government had reportedly leased out the islands to the <\/span><b>Jadwet family of Burma.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The leasing of control of the Coco Islands resulted in poor governance of the islands, which made the British government in India to transfer its control to the government of Lower Burma in Rangoon.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1882, the islands officially <\/span><b>became part of British Burma.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The islands became a self-governing crown colony even after Burma was <\/span><b>separated from British India in 1937.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/myanmar-tells-india-no-chinese-on-coco-islands-101760059230362.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coco Islands  are a small group of islands located in the Bay of Bengal. 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