Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Arunachal Pradesh
- Headquarters
- Bomdila
- Total
- 7,422 km (2,866 sq mi)
- Density
- 11.31/km (29.29/sq mi)
- Literacy
- 69.4%
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Website
- westkameng .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Arunachal Pradesh
- Capital
- Bomdila
- Population
- 83947
- Area
- 7422
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Tawang district
- Official website
- westkameng.nic.in
- Households
- 18159
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- Commons category
- West Kameng district
- topic's main category
- Category:West Kameng district
- male population
- 46155
- female population
- 37792
- urban population
- 15932
- rural population
- 68015
- literate population
- 48492
- illiterate population
- 35455
- short name
- WKG
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
West Kameng district (pronounced ˈkæmɛŋ) is a district of Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India. It accounts for 8.86% of the total area of the state. The name is derived from the Kameng river, a tributary of the Brahmaputra, that flows through the district.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “West Kameng district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.