Port Blair

English Etymology en British surveyor Archibald Blair =. Proper noun port Blair en capital city uterr:pref/Andaman and Nicobar Islands c/India officially now named comm/Sri Vijaya Puram. en Port Blair renamed Sri Vijaya Puram 'to free nation from colonial imprints' w:India Today https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/port-blair-renamed-sri-vijaya-puram-amit-shah-pm-modi-vision-free-nation-from-colonial-imprints-2599292-2024-09-13 2024-09-13 Port Blair was named after Captain Archibald Blair, a British colonial navy official of the East India Company. https://web.archive.org/web/20240927175915/https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/port-blair-renamed-sri-vijaya-puram-amit-shah-pm-modi-vision-free-nation-from-colonial-imprints-2599292-2024-09-13 Derived terms en Port Blair Mean Time Translations capital of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India Bengali: bn বন্দর ব্লেয়ার Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 布萊爾港 Bùlái'ěr-Gǎng Hebrew: he פורט בלייר Hindi: hi पोर्ट ब्लेयर Japanese: ja ポートブレア Pōtoburea Marathi: mr पोर्ट ब्लेयर n Russian: ru Порт-Блэр m