Outline of Assam

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Assam is the 16th largest, 15th most populous and 26th most literate state of the 29 states of the democratic Republic of India. Assam is at 14th position in life expectancy and 8th in female-to-male sex ratio. Assam is the 21st most media exposed states in India. The Economy of Assam is largely agriculture based with 69% of the population engaged in it. Growth rate of Assam’s income has not kept pace with that of India’s during the Post-British Era; differences increased rapidly since the 1970s.[1] While the Indian economy grew at 6 percent per annum over the period of 1981 to 2000, the same of Assam’s grew only by 3.3 percent.[2]

General reference

Geography

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Main article: Physical geography of Assam

Assam has five national parks (2.51% of State’s geographical area) and 18 wildlife sanctuaries (1.88% of State’s geographical area, including proposed) wildlife sanctuaries.[3][4][5]

National Parks

Wildlife sanctuaries

History

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Main article: History of Assam

Administrative divisions

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See also: List of districts of Assam

Assam had 27 districts till 15 August 2015 after which the Chief Minister of Assam Tarun Gogoi announced 5 more new districts taking the total no of districts to 32.[6][7]

List of districts along with the district headquarters

Demographics

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Main article: People of Assam

Population

District-wise Demographic Characteristics in 2001

Total population of Assam was 26.66 million with 4.91 million households in 2001.[9]

Religion

See also: Islam in Assam, Christianity in Assam





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Religion in Assam (2011)[10]

  Hinduism (61.46%)
  Islam (34.22%)
  Christianity (3.73%)
  Buddhism (0.17%)
  Jainism (0.08%)
  Sikhism (0.06%)
  Other or not religious (0.3%)

According to the 2011 census, 61.5% were Hindus, 34.22% were Muslims.[10][11] Christian minorities (3.7%) are found among Scheduled Tribe population. Other religions followed include Jainism (0.1%), Buddhism (0.2%), Sikhism (0.1%) and Animism (amongst Khamti, Phake, Aiton etc. communities).

Languages

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See also: Assamese language, Assamese literature, Bengali language, Bodo language, Nepali language, Sylheti language, and Bishnupriya Manipuri language
7th–8th century specimen of Assamese (Kamrupi) literature

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Languages of Assam in 2001[12][13][14]

  Assamese (48.8%)
  Bengali (27.5%)
  Bodo (4.8%)
  Hindi (5.88%)
  Nepali (2.12%)
  Mishing (1.9%)
  Karbi (1.5%)
  Other (8.5%)

Culture

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Main article: Culture of Assam

See also

References

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