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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, the largest city in the state of Assam, is the nerve centre of both the Assamese culture as well as the broader Northeast Indian culture.

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is in the Golaghat, Sonitpur, Biswanath and Nagaon districts of . It is located along the south bank of the Brahmaputra River.

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

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is a region in Assam, India. This consists of Biswanath, Golaghat, Lakihmpur, Majuli, Jorhat, Sivasagar, Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Charaideo and Tinsukia districts.

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or Western Assam is a region west of Assam, India, considered as the extension of the region of . This region includes Kokrajhar, Dhubri, South-Salmara Mankachar, Chirang, Bongaigaon, Goalpara, Baksa, Barpeta, Nalbari, Kamrup, Udalguri, Darrang and Sonitpur districts.

The region of Assam consists of Hojai, Kamrup Metropolitan, Marigaon and Nagaon districts.

The comprises a large hilly tribal region of Assam, separating the Assamese-speaking Brahmaputra Valley from the Bengali-speaking Barak Valley. Many areas are rugged and scenic, with rice cultivations in river valleys.
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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”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەسام”
  • 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: “アソム州”
  • Japanese: “アッサム”
  • Japanese: “アッサム州”
  • Javanese: “Assam”
  • Kannada: “ಅಸ್ಸಾಂ”
  • Kashmiri: “آسام”
  • Kazakh: “Ассам”
  • Kirghiz: “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”
  • Oromo: “Assam”
  • 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”
  • Somali: “Assam”
  • 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 Frisian: “Assam”
  • Western Panjabi: “آسام”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿萨姆邦”
  • Yiddish: “אסאם”
  • Yoruba: “Assam”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿薩姆邦”
  • “ma kipisi Okon”
  • “ma lili Okon”
  • “आसाम”

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