North Assam division


North Assam division is an administrative division of Assam under the jurisdiction of a Commissioner, who is officially stationed at Tezpur. It consists of the following districts: Udalguri, Darrang, Sonitpur and Biswanath. Shri Rakesh Kumar, IAS is the current Commissioner of this division.

Districts

North Assam district comprises mainly 4 districts, namely Udalguri, Darrang, Sonitpur and Biswanath.
CodeDistrictHeadquarterPopulation Area Density
BSBiswanathBiswanath Chariali612 4911,100557
DRDarrangMangaldai928 5001,585586
STSonitpurTezpur1 311 6192,076632
UDUdalguri#Udalguri831 6881,852449
Total43 684 2986,613557

# Districts within the Bodoland Territorial Region

Demographics

As per 2011 census, North Assam division has a population of 3,684,298

Languages

According to 2011 census, the total number of Assamese speakers in the division were 1,339,782, Bengali speakers were 923,791, Boro speakers were 389,390, Sadri speakers were 314,665, Nepali speakers were 183,601 and Hindi speakers were 125,908.