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Assam

Assam is a land of red hills, green valleys and blue rivers — the majestic and sacred Brahmaputra. It is known for its famous tea, its silk and its biodiversity, and is also rich in archeological heritage.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Guwahati and Kaziranga National Park.

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, previously Gauhati, is the capital and the largest city in the state of Assam. is one of the fastest-growing cities in India.

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in is famous throughout India as the home of the rhinoceros. As the region's principal tourist attraction, the park draws over 170,000 visitors every year.

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is in Assam. It's a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is home to many species including tigers.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Upper Assam and Lower Assam.

division is an administrative division of the state of Assam comprising the undivided and districts, of the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra Valley.

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is a region west of Assam, India, considered as the extension of the Dooars region of .

is a region in Assam, India.
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Assam

Latitude of center
26.4074° or 26° 24′ 27″ north
Longitude of center
93.2551° or 93° 15′ 19″ east
Population
31,200,000
Elevation
80 metres (262 feet)
Abbreviation
“AS”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2240851570
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1278253
Wiki­data ID
Q1164
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Assam” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Assam”
  • Afrikaans: “Assam”
  • Albanian: “Asam”
  • Albanian: “Assam”
  • Albanian: “Assami”
  • Amharic: “አሳም”
  • Angika: “असम”
  • Arabic: “آسام”
  • Arabic: “أسَّام”
  • Aragonese: “Asam”
  • Armenian: “Ասամ”
  • Armenian: “Ասսամ”
  • Armenian: “Կամարուպա”
  • Assamese: “Ôxôm”
  • Assamese: “অছম”
  • Assamese: “অসম”
  • Assamese: “অহম”
  • Assamese: “আছাম”
  • Assamese: “আসম”
  • Assamese: “আসাম”
  • Assamese: “আহম”
  • Asturian: “Assam”
  • Awadhi: “असम”
  • Azerbaijani: “Assam”
  • Balinese: “Assam”
  • Basque: “Assam”
  • Belarusian: “Асам”
  • Bengali: “আসাম”
  • Bhojpuri: “आसाम”
  • Bishnupriya: “অসম”
  • Breton: “Asam”
  • Bulgarian: “Асам”
  • Burmese: “အာသံပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Assam”
  • Cebuano: “Assam”
  • Central Bikol: “Assam”
  • Chechen: “Ассам”
  • Chinese: “Assam”
  • Chinese: “阿萨姆邦”
  • Chinese: “阿薩姆邦”
  • Chuvash: “Асам”
  • Croatian: “Assam”
  • Czech: “Ásám”
  • Danish: “Assam”
  • Dhivehi: “އާސާމު”
  • Dotyali: “आसाम”
  • Dutch: “Assam”
  • Esperanto: “Asamio”
  • Esperanto: “Asamo”
  • Estonian: “Assam”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Assam”
  • Finnish: “Assam”
  • French: “Assam”
  • Galician: “Assam”
  • Georgian: “ასამი”
  • Georgian: “ასამის შტატი”
  • German: “Assam”
  • Goan Konkani: “Asam”
  • Goan Konkani: “आसाम”
  • Greek: “Άσαμ”
  • Greek: “Ασσάμ”
  • Gujarati: “આસામ”
  • Hausa: “Assam”
  • Hebrew: “אסאם”
  • Hindi: “असम”
  • Hungarian: “Asszám”
  • Icelandic: “Assam”
  • Ido: “Assam”
  • Indonesian: “Assam”
  • Interlingua: “Assam”
  • Irish: “Assam”
  • Italian: “Assam”
  • Japanese: “アッサム州”
  • Javanese: “Assam”
  • Kannada: “ಅಸ್ಸಾಂ”
  • Kashmiri: “آسام”
  • Kazakh: “Ассам”
  • Korean: “아삼 주”
  • Korean: “아삼”
  • Korean: “아삼주”
  • Ladin: “Assam”
  • Latin: “Asama”
  • Latin: “Assam”
  • Latin: “Assamia”
  • Latvian: “Asama”
  • Lithuanian: “Asamas”
  • Macedonian: “Асам”
  • Maithili: “असम”
  • Maithili: “असाम”
  • Malagasy: “Assam”
  • Malay: “Assam”
  • Malayalam: “ആസാം”
  • Manipuri: “ꯑꯁꯥꯝ”
  • Marathi: “आसाम”
  • Mazanderani: “آسام”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Assam”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Assam”
  • Mingrelian: “ასამიშ შტატი”
  • Mongolian: “Ассам”
  • Nepali: “असम”
  • Nepali: “आसाम”
  • Newari: “आसाम”
  • Northern Frisian: “Assam”
  • Northern Luri: “آسام”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Assam”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Assam”
  • Norwegian: “Assam”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Assam”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Assam”
  • Oriya: “ଆସାମ”
  • Ossetian: “Ассам”
  • Pali: “असमरज्जं”
  • Pampanga: “Assam”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਸਾਮ”
  • Persian: “آسام”
  • Polish: “Asam”
  • Portuguese: “Assam”
  • Portuguese: “Assão”
  • Pushto: “آسام”
  • Quechua: “Assam”
  • Romanian: “Assam”
  • Russian: “Ассам”
  • Sanskrit: “असम”
  • Sanskrit: “असमराज्यम्”
  • Santali: “ᱟᱥᱟᱢ”
  • Scots: “Assam”
  • Serbian: “Асам”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Asam”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Assam”
  • Silesian: “Assam”
  • Sindhi: “آسام”
  • Sinhala: “ඇසෑම්”
  • Slovak: “Ásam”
  • Slovenian: “Asam”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آسام”
  • Spanish: “Assam”
  • Swahili: “Assam”
  • Swedish: “Assam”
  • Sylheti: “ꠀꠡꠣꠝ ꠞꠣꠁꠎ꠆ꠎ”
  • Tagalog: “Assam”
  • Tajik: “Ассам”
  • Tajik: “Иёлоти Ассом”
  • Tamil: “அசாம்”
  • Tatar: “Ассам”
  • Telugu: “అసోం”
  • Telugu: “అస్సాం”
  • Thai: “รัฐอัสสัม”
  • Thai: “อัสสัม”
  • Thai: “อาชาม”
  • Thai: “อาสาม”
  • Tibetan: “ཨཱསཱམ།”
  • Tulu: “ಅಸ್ಸಾಂ”
  • Turkish: “Assam”
  • Ukrainian: “Ассам”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Asam”
  • Urdu: “آسام”
  • Uzbek: “Accom”
  • Uzbek: “Assom”
  • Venetian: “Assam”
  • Vietnamese: “Ajman”
  • Vietnamese: “Assam”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Assam”
  • Welsh: “Assam”
  • Western Panjabi: “آسام”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿萨姆邦”
  • Yiddish: “אסאם”
  • Yoruba: “Assam”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿薩姆邦”
  • “आसाम”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Assam”. Photo: anurag peshne, CC BY-SA 2.0.