ASSAM

                                  Geography

 

Date of formation                               26 Jan. 1950
Area                                                 78,438 sqkm.
Capital                                              Dispur
Population                                         2,66,38,407;
Males                                               13,787,799;
Females                                            12,850,608
Urban Population                                 12.72%;
(a)Population Density                           340
(b)Sex Ratio                                       932.
Literacy                                             64.28%,
Males                                                71.93;
Females                                             56.03
No. of District                                     23

 

Location:
Situated within the latitudes 90-96 degrees East and 20-30 degrees West, Assam is bounded by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh in the North;Nagaland and Manipur in the East;Mizoram, Tripura, Bangladesh and Meghalaya in the South and South-west; and West Bengal in the West.

Climate
Assam enjoys primarily a Monsoon type of climate. The weather may be categorized into six different seasons. They are: the summer, rainy, autumn, winter and the spring season. The India Meteorological Department, on the other hand has sub-divided the climate of Assam into four different seasons: the pre-monsoon season,doe monsoon season, the retreated monsoon and the winter season.

Here the pre-monsoon season is the spring season, the monsoon season can be sub- divided into two parts-the summer and the rainy season and the retreated monsoon and the autumn season; and the winter season. However, the common people take into consideration only two seasons - the summer season and the winter season. In these two seasons two different types of crops are cultivated — the Kharif crop and the Rabi crop.

During the rainy season, due to excessive rainfall floods often inundate Assam. This season is thus not very conducive for tourists.The ideal time for tourists is from October to April.