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Assam

Tea gardens, one-horned rhinos and the mighty Brahmaputra

Capital
Dispur
Region
Northeast India
Languages
Assamese, Bodo, Bengali
Formed
1950

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Established 15th August 1947
Area 78,550 km
Capital Dispur
Largest city Guwahati
Population 26,655,528 (2001 census)
Governor Banwarilal Purohit
Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal
Official languages Assamese, Bodo, Karbi
Panchayats 2489 (2001 census)
Villages 26312 (2001 census)
Literacy 76.3%
Forest Cover: 35.48 %
Agriculture Assam’s biggest contribution to the world is tea. Major crops are rice, rapeseed, mustard seed, jute, potato, sweet potato, banana, papaya, areca nut and turmeric.
Refineries Digboi, Noonmati, Dhaligaon near Bongaigaon, Numaligarh
Airport Guwahati International Airport (Borjhar Airport)
Government www.assamgovt.nic.in
Tourism www.assamtourism.org
Districts
(27)
Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Sibsagar, Dhemaji, Jorhat, Lakhimpur, Golaghat, Sonitpur, Karbi Anglong, Nagaon, Marigaon, Darrang, Kamrup, Nalbari, Barpeta, Bongaigaon, Goalpara, Kokrajhar, Dhubri, North Cachar Hills, Cachar, Hailakandi, Karimganj, Kamrup Metropolitan, Baksa, Udalguri, Chirang.

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