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STATES AND UNION TERRITORIES OF INDIA

ASSAM
India's gateway to the Northeast
Capital: Guwahati
Language: Assamese and Bengali is the official language in the three districts in the Barak Valley.
assam.gov.in/

State Animal of Assam: Indian one-horned rhinoceros

State bird of Assam: white-winged wood duck

Rivers: Barak, Brahmaputra

Indigenous wild silks produced in Assam: Golden Muga Silk, White Pat and warm Eri Silk

The "Land of Seven Sisters" ia a name to denote the inter-dependency of the 7 contiguous states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura in northeastern India. The neighbouring 8th North eastern state Sikkim is called the only brother of seven sisters states.

Districts: Cachar, Hailakandi, and Karimganj, Dima Hasao, Hojai, East Karbi Anglong, West Karbi Anglong, Morigaon, and Nagaon, Baksa, Barpeta, Bongaigaon, Chirang, Dhubri, Goalpara, Nalbari, Kamrup Metropolitan, Kamrup Rural, Kokrajhar, and South Salmara-Mankachar, Biswanath, Darrang, Sonitpur, and Udalguri, Charaideo, Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Golaghat, Jorhat, Lakhimpur, Majuli Sivasagar, and Tinsukia


Places of interest in Assam
Guwahati
Kaziranga National Park, Manas Wildlife Sanctuary, Dibru Saikhowa National Park, Nameri National Park and the Orang National Park.
Kaziranga National Orchid and Biodiversity Park boasts more than 500 of the estimated 1,314 orchid species found in India
Majuli, largest river island (20 kms from Jorhat) ( the first island to be made a district in India)
Saulkuchi (silk village of Assam)