Facts About Arunachal Pradesh India
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| Arunachal Pradesh in Sanskrit means Land of the Dawn-Lit Mountains. |
| Arunachal Pradesh has the highest number of regional languages in the Indian subcontinent. |
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A major part of Arunachal Pradesh, was given to Britain by the Tibetan government with the Simla Accord (1914). China does not recognise the legality of that treaty, and claims most of the state as South Tibet. |
| Arunachal Pradesh was at center of India China war in 1962. The NEFA (North-East Frontier Agency) was created in 1955. The issue was quiet for few years but later it emerged as major issue and became reason for China Indian War of 1962. |
| During the China India war in 1962, China captured most area of Arunachal Pradesh in war. However later withdrew back to the McMahon Line and returned Indian prisoners of war in 1963. |
| Arunacha Pradesh has lot of potential for hydropower development. |
| Arunachal Pradesh is also known as the Orchid State of India or the Paradise of the Botanists. |
| Tawang is an integral part of India, however China keeps making statement on this. China objected to the visit of the Dalai Lama to Tawang in November 2009. |
| Dalai Lama visited Tawang on 8 November 2009. More than 30,000 people from India and neighbouring countries, Nepal and Bhutan, attended his religious function. |
| Majority area of Arunachal Pradesh is in Himalayas. Parts of Lohit, Changlang and Tirap are covered by the Patkai hills. Kangto, Nyegi Kangsang, the main Gorichen peak and the Eastern Gorichen peak are some of the highest peaks in this region of the Himalayas that falls in Arunachal Pradesh. |
| Arunachal Pradesh has good wildlife, wildlife sanctuaries and national parks with rare animals, birds and plants. Here 200+ species of mammels, 700+ types of birds are found. |
| Arunachal Pradesh has following 19 districts :- Anjaw District, Changlang District, Dibang Valley, East Kameng, East Siang, Kra Daadi District, Kurung Kumey, Lohit District, Longding District, Lower Dibang Valley, Lower Subansiri, Namsai District, Papum Pare, Tawang District, Tirap District, Upper Siang, Upper Subansiri, West Kameng, West Siang, Siang |
| Arunachal Pradesh area has five river valleys: the Kameng, the Subansiri, the Siang, the Lohit and the Tirap. Himalayas is full of snow and as snow melts these send water into rivers. The biggest river is Siang, called the Tsangpo in Tibet, which becomes the Brahmaputra after it is joined by the Dibang and the Lohit in the plains of Assam. |
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Tourist attractions include
Tawang (a town with a Buddhist monastery) at 3000 m elevation,
Ziro (which holds cultural festivals),
Yomcha (limestone caves called 'tapen uru'),
the Namdapha tiger project in Changlang district and
Sela lake near Bomdila with its bamboo bridges overhanging the river. Religious places of interest include Malinithan in Lekhabali, Rukhmininagar near Roing (the place as per the popular Hindu mythology, Rukmini, Lord Krishna's wife, said to have lived), and Parshuram Kund in Lohit district as Puranas is the lake where sage Parshuram washed away his sins, The Ganga lake(Gyaker sinyi or Gekar Sinyi)and various other tourist hot spots. |
| Late Sri Bibhabasu Das Shastri renames NEFA as Arunachal Pradesh on 20 January 1972 and it became a Union Territory. Later Arunachal Pradesh became a full state on 20 February 1987. |
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Arunachal Pradesh borders the states of Assam and Nagaland to the south, and shares international borders with Bhutan in the west, Burma in the east and China in the north. |
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