Daman is the capital of the merged Union Territory, and Diu lies 768 km from it

Background

Diu's own district administration records that Diu is about 768 km from Daman, which it names as the capital of the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. Diu is an island off the Kathiawad coast, bounded by the Gir-Somnath and Amreli districts of Gujarat to the north and connected to the mainland by two bridges. The Union Territory's capital therefore sits on the Arabian Sea coast at Daman while its island territory lies nearly eight hundred kilometres away — the administration whose Transport Department at Daman and whose Public Works Department are issuing notifications and tenders this month works across that distance.