Where do the Sentinelese live?

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Cinque Islands, Andaman and Nicobar Islands — Andaman and Nicobar Islands Andaman redwood trees in the Cinque Islands, south of Rutland Island, in the southern Andamans, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India.

The Sentinelese live on North Sentinel Island, a remote, forest-covered island located within the Andaman and Nicobar Islands union territory of India.1

The island is characterized by a lack of modern infrastructure, such as roads or ports, and serves as the home to the Sentinelese, who are one of the world’s most isolated hunter-gatherer communities. To protect the tribe from outside contact and the potential introduction of diseases to which they lack immunity, the Indian government has designated the island and its surrounding three-mile radius of waters as a protected tribal reserve. Unauthorized entry to the island is illegal under the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Protection of Aboriginal Tribes) Regulation, 1956.1