14 Facts About North-East India

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Northeast North-East India is the easternmost region of North-East India representing both a geographic and political administrative division of the country.

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North-East India described the people as "short in stature and black-looking", whose speech differed a little from central India and who were of simple but violent disposition.

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3.

North-East India wrote that the people in Kamarupa knew of Sichuan, which lay to the kingdom's east beyond a treacherous mountain.

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North-East India later compiled a book on the interdependence and commonness of the Seven Sister States.

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Northeast North-East India has a predominantly humid sub-tropical climate with hot, humid summers, severe monsoons, and mild winters.

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Northeast North-East India has a subtropical climate that is influenced by its relief and influences from the southwest and northeast monsoons.

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North Eastern Region of North-East India is a mega-earthquake prone zone caused by active fault planes beneath formed by the convergence of three tectonic plates viz.

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8.

The National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, North-East India, has highlighted the region as being rich in wild relatives of crop plants.

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Total population of Northeast North-East India is 46 million with 68 percent of that living in Assam alone.

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10.

Northeast North-East India has over 220 ethnic groups and an equal number of dialects in which Bodo form the largest indigenous ethnic group.

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Besides these, all tribes in Northeast North-East India have their own folk dances associated with their religion and festivals.

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12.

Nagen Saikia is the first writer from Assam and the Northeast North-East India, to have been conferred the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship by the Sahitya Akademi.

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North-East India's received The Hindu Literary Prize for her novel When the River Sleeps.

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14.

Northeast North-East India has several newspapers in both English and regional languages.

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