Tawang district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Arunachal Pradesh
- Headquarters
- Tawang
- Total
- 2,085 km (805 sq mi)
- Density
- 23.97/km (62.08/sq mi)
- Literacy
- 60.6%
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Website
- tawang .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Tawang District | Permits,Services & Visitor Information for Tawang District | India
Permits,Services & Visitor Information for Tawang District
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Arunachal Pradesh
- Capital
- Tawang
- Population
- 49977
- Area
- 2172
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- West Kameng district
- Official website
- tawang.nic.in
- Households
- 10062
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- Commons category
- Tawang district
- topic's main category
- Category:Tawang district
- male population
- 29151
- short name
- TWN
- female population
- 20826
- urban population
- 11202
- rural population
- 38775
- literate population
- 26073
- illiterate population
- 23904
- different from
- Tawang
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Encyclopedic overview
Tawang district (/tɑːˈwæŋ/ or /təˈwæŋ/) is a district of the Arunachal Pradesh state in northeastern India. It is the smallest of 26 districts of Arunachal Pradesh by land area, and has a population of 49,977 people. The district headquarters is the Tawang town with its historical monastery. The district borders the Tibet in the north, Bhutan in the west, and the West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh in the south.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tawang district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.