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Mokokchung
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cached 1619h agoPlace details
- Locality
- Mokokchung
- Region
- Nagaland
- Country
- India
- Population
- 35,913
- Timezone
- Asia/Kolkata
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Mokokchung
- Settlement.nickname
- Land of Pioneers
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town and municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Mokokchung.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- View of the town
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- India Nagaland#India
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- left
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Nagaland, India
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Northeast India
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Nagaland
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Mokokchung
- Settlement.government_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.governing_body
- Mokokchung Municipal Council
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Mokokchung district
- Elevation
- 1325
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Image
- Mokokchung town.jpg
- Dialing code
- 369
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- postal code
- 798601
- Commons category
- Mokokchung
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- History
- 1994 Mokokchung Massacre
- Geography
- Demographics
- Suburbs
- Culture
- Religion
- Media
- Politics
- Sports
- Education
- Universities and Colleges
- Transportation
- References
Mokokchung () is a municipality in the Mokokchung District of the Indian state of Nagaland. It serves as the district headquarters as well as the main urban hub of Mokokchung District. Mokokchung is the cultural nerve centre of the Ao people and is economically and politically the most important urban centre in northern Nagaland. The town is made up of 16 wards, of which Kumlong, Sangtemla, Alempang and Yimyu are the largest.
==History== Historically, Mokokchung was one of the first Naga Hills sites where the Assam Rifles, led by Britishers, established their outposts (then called stockades) in the later part of the 19th century. Much of the town initially grew around this post located in the DC Hill. The British administration was then gradually extended eastwards towards the remoter parts of the Naga Hills.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mokokchung” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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