Williamnagar
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Place details
- Locality
- Williamnagar
- Region
- Meghalaya
- Country
- India
- Population
- 24,597
- Timezone
- Asia/Kolkata
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Williamnagar
- Settlement.native_name
- Simsanggre
- Settlement.settlement_type
- city
- Settlement.image_skyline
- SIMSANG FESTIVAL CARNIVAL2013.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Simsang Winter Festival
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- India Meghalaya#India
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Meghalaya, India
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- India
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Meghalaya
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- East Garo Hills
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.population_total
- 18251
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2001
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.demographics_type1
- Languages
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- History
- Demographics
- Places of interest
- Schools and colleges
- References
- External links
Williamnagar, formerly known as Simsanggre, is the headquarters of East Garo Hills district in the state of Meghalaya in India.
==History== Williamnagar, the headquarters complex of the East Garo Hills district of Meghalaya, one of the states of northeastern India, was christened after Captain Williamson A. Sangma, the founding chief minister of the state of Meghalaya. The township was planned around the erstwhile village of Simsanggre, on the vast plainlands along the bank of the Simsang River, in 1976 after the Garo Hills district of yesteryear was re-organised to carve out a new district called East Garo Hills District.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Williamnagar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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