Assam state of India. Located in the northeastern part of the country, it is bounded by the Kingdom of Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north, Nagaland and Manipur to the east, and Mizoram and Tripura to the south. To the west it borders Bangladesh, Meghalaya and West Bengal. The name Assam comes from the word ‘Asama’, which means ‘unparalleled’ in the Ahom language, a now-extinct language. The neighboring states of Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Mizoram and Meghalaya once belonged to Assam. The capital was formerly Shillong (now the capital of Meghalaya), but was moved to Dispur on the outskirts of Guwahati in 1972.
Population composition
As per the Aadhar Statistics the Assam population in 2021/2022 is 34,586,234 (34.59 Millions) as compared to the last census 2011 is 31,205,576. The people who live in the plains of the Brahmaputra and Barak valleys are predominantly Indo-Iranian. By the time they arrived in the region, however, the local Aryans were mingling with Asians. was born in A significant minority of the population consisting of rural indigenous peoples outside the Indian caste system. That is why they are officially called Planned Tribes. Bodo is the largest of these groups. Most of the designated tribes live in the hilly areas of the central and southern parts of the country and are of Asian descent. Assamese, an Indo-Aryan language, is the state’s official and principal language, and a continuous record of the history of Assamese literature can be traced back to the 14th century. The Khasi speak Austro-Asiatic, but Tibeto-Burman is spoken by most of the tribes. Some groups have adopted Assamese as their mother tongue. The people of the Barak Valley south of Assam primarily speak Bengali (also known as Bangla). Bengali, like Assamese, is an Indo-Aryan language. Since the late 20th century, population growth has been unusually rapid, driven primarily by tea plantation workers, herders from Nepal, Muslims from West Bengal, and refugees from Bangladesh immigrating to Assam. The state’s urban population growth reflects not only industrial growth and expanding commercial activity, but also the tendency of many immigrants, especially those from Bangladesh, to live closer to cities. In the early 21st century, Guwahati had the most significant urban population.