North Assam division is an administrative division of Assam under the jurisdiction of a Commissioner, who is officially stationed at Tezpur. It consists of the following districts: Udalguri, Darrang, Sonitpur and Biswanath. Shri Rakesh Kumar, IAS is the current Commissioner of this division.
Districts North Assam district comprises mainly 4 districts, namely Udalguri, Darrang, Sonitpur and Biswanath.
CodeISO 3166 District Headquarter Population (2011) Area (km2) Density (/km2) BS Biswanath Biswanath Chariali 612 491 1,100557 DR Darrang Mangaldai 928 500 1,585 586 ST Sonitpur Tezpur 1 311 619 2,076 632 UD Udalguri# Udalguri 831 688 1,852 449Total4—3 684 2986,613557
# Districts within the Bodoland Territorial Region
Demographics As per 2011 census, North Assam division has a population of 3,684,298
Languages
According to 2011 census, the total number of Assamese speakers in the division were 1,339,782, Bengali speakers were 923,791, Boro speakers were 389,390, Sadri speakers were 314,665, Nepali speakers were 183,601 and Hindi speakers were 125,908. Religion
District HinduMuslim Other Sonitpur69.2722.757.98Darrang35.2564.340.41Udalguri73.6412.6613.70Biswanath83.968.527.52
See also Upper Assam Division Lower Assam Division Barak Valley Division Central Assam Division
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