Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Assam
- Division
- Central Assam
- Headquarters
- Morigaon
- Lok sabha constituencies
- Nowgong
- Vidhan sabha constituencies
- Jagiroad , Morigaon , Laharighat
- Total
- 1,704 km (658 sq mi)
- Density
- 561.9/km (1,455/sq mi)
- Literacy
- 69.37%
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Iso 3166 code
- IN-AS
- Website
- morigaon .gov .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Capital
- Morigaon
- Population
- 957423
- Area
- 1704
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Darrang district
- Official website
- marigaon.nic.in
- Households
- 184602
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- topic's main category
- Category:Morigaon district
- Commons category
- Morigaon district
- male population
- 486651
- female population
- 470772
- urban population
- 73298
- rural population
- 884125
- literate population
- 539902
- illiterate population
- 417521
- short name
- MGN
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Morigaon district is an administrative district in the state of Assam in India. The district headquarters is located at Morigaon. The ancient occult site Mayong is located in this district as well as Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Morigaon district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.