AMAZING FACT INDIA
Some of the most amazing facts of the beautiful north-east INDIA Eight States Northeast India comprises eight states – the ‘Seven Sister’ states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland and Tripura, with Sikkim as the eighth state. Population The population of all eight states of Northeast is roughly equal(although greater) to the population of Odisha, India’s 11th most populated state. Census 2011: North-East- 45,533,982 Odisha- 41,974,218 Neck of a Chicken Seven states of the Northeast are connected to India via a thin stretch of land known officially as the Siliguri Corridor and popularly as ‘Chicken’s Neck’ . The stretch is just 21 to 40 kilometres wide. Till 1963, Northeast India consisted of Assam and the princely states of Manipur and Tripura. Nagaland was carved out of Assam in 1963, Meghalaya in 1972, Arunachal Pradesh in 1987, and Mizoram in 1987. Sikkim joined the Indian Union in 1975. (Check the map below which show...