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Arunachal Pradesh is primarily a hilly tract nestled in the foothills of the Himalayas in northeast India. It is spread over an area of 83,743 km 2 (32,333 sq mi). [ 3 ] 98% of the geographical area is land out of which 80% is forest cover; [ 1 ] 2% is water. [ 4 ] River systems in the region, including those from the higher Himalayas and ...
Arunachal Pradesh (/ ər ʊ ˌ n ɑː tʃ əl p r ə ˈ d eɪ ʃ /; [19] lit. ' Dawn-Lit Mountain Province ') [20] is a state in northeast India. It was formed from the North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA) region, and India declared it as a state on 20 February 1987. Itanagar is its capital and largest town. It borders the Indian states of Assam ...
Arunachal Pradesh – northeasternmost state of the Republic of India. Geographically, it is the largest among the North-east Indian states commonly known as the Seven Sister States. As in other parts of Northeast India, the people native to the state trace their origins to the Tibeto-Burman people. Arunachal Pradesh has close to 61,000 square ...
Northeast India, officially the North Eastern Region (NER), is the easternmost region of India representing both a geographic and political administrative division of the country. [ 18 ] It comprises eight states — Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura (commonly known as the "Seven Sisters"), and the ...
Sela Pass. The Sela Pass (more appropriately called Se La, as La means Pass) is a high-altitude mountain pass located on the border between the Tawang and West Kameng districts in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. It has an elevation of 4170 m (13,700 ft) and connects the Indian Buddhist town of Tawang to Dirang and Guwahati.
Tawang district, the basin of Tawang Chu, occupies an area of 2,172 square kilometres (839 sq mi),. [9] The district is roughly located around latitude 27° 45’ N and longitude 90° 15’ E at the northwest extremity of Arunachal Pradesh. Elevations range between 6,000 and 22,000 feet (6,700 m), and inhabitants are found at lower altitude ...
Government of Arunachal Pradesh. Dihang-Dibang or Dehang-Debang is a biosphere reserve constituted in 1998. It is in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. The Mouling National Park and the Dibang Wildlife Sanctuary are located fully or partly within this biosphere reserve. The reserve spreads over three districts: Dibang Valley, Upper Siang ...
The Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh has a total population of roughly 1.4 million (as of 2011) on an area of 84,000 km 2, amounting to a population density of about 17 pop./km 2 (far below the Indian average of 370 pop./km 2 but significantly higher than similarly mountainous Ladakh). The "indigenous groups" account for about two thirds of ...