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3 unusual facts about Arunachal Pradesh


Anjaw district

The easternmost community in Anjaw is the village of Dong.

One Crazy Ride

The bikers chronicle their attempt to travel from Tawang in west Arunachal to Dong in the east without entering the state of Assam.

Schizodactylus monstrosus

These crickets are favourite food for many tribes in Arunachal Pradesh.


Abies chensiensis

Abies chensiensis, the Shensi fir, is a fir native to Gansu, Hubei, Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan in China and Arunachal Pradesh in India.

All Idu Mishmi Students Union

All Idu Mishmi Students Union (AIMSU) is a community based student’s organization of Idu Mishmi tribe in Arunachal Pradesh, India.

Boettger's horned toad

Boettger's horned toad, Boettger's spadefoot toad, or pale-shouldered horned toad (Xenophrys boettgeri), is a species of toad found in southern and southeastern China (the northern border runs roughly from Sichuan in the west to Shanxi in the north and Zhejiang in the east) and northeastern India (Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, and Assam).

Buddha's Birthday

Though the birth of Birth of Buddha is Nepal Buddha Purnima or Tathagata is celebrated in India, especially in Sikkim, Ladakh, Arunachal Pradesh, Bodh Gaya, various parts of North Bengal such as Kalimpong, Darjeeling, and Kurseong, and Maharashtra (where 6% of total population are Buddhists) and other parts of India as per Indian calendar.

Bugun Liocichla

The species was described in 2006 after being discovered in Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary in Arunachal Pradesh, India, by an astrophysicist, Ramana Athreya.

Classification schemes for Southeast Asian languages

A number of language groups in Arunachal Pradesh traditionally considered to be Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) may in fact constitute independent language families or isolates (Roger Blench 2011).

Common slug snake

The common slug snake (Pareas monticola) is a species of snake found in Northeast India (Sikkim, Assam, Darjeeling; Arunachal Pradesh (Mokto - Tawang district)), Vietnam, and Southwest China (Tibet, Yunnan).

Drangme Chhu

The river rises in the western portion of Arunachal Pradesh, India, and flows southwest first into the Bhutanese district (or dzongkhag) of Trashiyangtse and then into Tashigang.

Fenqing

In addition to the official claims made by the People's Republic of China, such as Taiwan, Arunachal Pradesh, the Senkaku Islands, and the South China Sea Islands, some fenqing also make irredentist claims to Outer Mongolia, Tuva, Outer Manchuria, the Hukawng Valley of northern Myanmar, parts of Central Asia east of Lake Balkhash, Bhutan, Ladakh, and Sikkim.

Jack Francis Needham

Needham conducted a tour of the "Abor" (Adi) area in the Siang River Valley (modern-day East Siang District in Arunachal Pradesh state) in 1884, which established British relations with a small segment of the Tani hill tribes.

Kaloula assamensis

Kaloula assamensis (Assamese balloon frog or Assam narrowmouth toad) is a species of narrow-mouthed frog found in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, and West Bengal in northeastern India.

Khamti people

The Khamti, or Tai Khamti, Thai: (ชาวไทคำตี่, Chao Tai Kam Dtee) as they are also known, are a sub-group of the Shan people found in the Sagaing Division, Hkamti District in northwestern Burma as well as Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh in India.

Naga people

The Naga tribes live in the Indian states of Nagaland, Assam, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh and the northwestern hill tracts of Burma, such as the Naga Self-Administered Zone (formerly in Sagaing Division).

Nido Pavitra

Nido Pavitra is an Congress Party MLA and Parliamentary Secretary in the Health and Family Welfare Department of Arunachal Pradesh, India.

Nyingchi Prefecture

The two counties of Zayü (察隅县) and Mêdog (墨脱县), collectively called South Tibet, are considered by the Chinese government to be under Chinese jurisdiction, however they are de facto under the control by India's state of Arunachal Pradesh.

Pangsau Pass

The Ledo Road began at Ledo, the railhead, and passed through Lekhapani, Jagun, Jairampur (the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh boundary and beginning of Inner Line), and Nampong before switchbacking steeply upwards through densely forested hills to the pass, 12 km away.

Ptyctolaemus gularis

The green fan-throated lizard Ptyctolaemus gularis is a species of agamid lizard found in North East India (Assam, Khasi Hills, Arunachal Pradesh) China (Tibet), Myanmar (Kachin, China)

Rhacophorus rhodopus

Subsequently, frogs that matched the description of R. rhodopus were also found at Chiang Mai and in the Doi Chiang Dao mountains (Thailand), Buon Luoi (Vietnam), and Arunachal Pradesh (India).

Upper Siang Hydroelectric Project

The Upper Siang Hydroelectric Project consists of the construction of several hydroelectric power dams in the Upper Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh, India.

VKV Shergaon

Vivekananda Kendra Vidyalaya, Shergoan popularly known as VKV Shergoan is a school that was started in the year 1981 in Shergoan village, 60 km away from Bomdila the HQ of West Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh.


see also

Along

Along Airport, an airport in the state of Arunachal Pradesh, India

Boiga cyanea

The green cat snake, Boiga cyanea, is a species of nocturnal opisthoglyphous snake found in India (Sikkim, Darjeeling & Jalpaiguri in West Bengal, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nicobar Islands), Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand (incl. Phuket), Myanmar, West Malaysia, and parts of China (Yunnan).

Guru Nanak

He returned from Lhasa and went to the famous monastery Samye and entered Pemoshubu Menchukha in Arunachal Pradesh.

Itanagar

Ita Fort is one of the most important historical sites in the state of Arunachal Pradesh.

Khamyang

Khamyang people, a tribal group found primarily in Tinsukia, Jorhat and Sivasagar districts of Assam as well as adjacent parts of Arunachal Pradesh.Namsai Chongkham

Kho-Bwa languages

Blench (2011) suggests the name Kamengic, from the Kameng area of Arunachal Pradesh, or alternatively Bugun–Mey, after its two main members.

Mishmi people

The Mishmis occupy the northeastern tip of the central Arunachal Pradesh/South Tibet in Upper and Lower Dibang Valley, Lohit and Anjaw Districts/Medog County.

Murgo

In 1962 China and India fought a brief war over Aksai Chin and Arunachal Pradesh, but in 1993 and 1996 the two countries signed agreements to respect the Line of Actual Control.

Pemako

The Tshangla dialect of Pemako (Tibetan: པདྨ་བཀོད་ཚངས་ལ་སྐད་, Wylie: Padma-kod Tsangla skad, also Padma kod skad) is the predominant language in the Pemako region of Tibet and an adjoining contiguous area south of McMahon line in Arunachal Pradesh in India.

Premi

The trendy casuals that Koel Mallick sports in Shudhu Tumi, at the Arunachal Pradesh shooting sites, are also from Pantaloons.

The Vinyl Records

Minam tekseng, born 20 April 1990 (Age 23), is from Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, India.

Mithy Tatak, born 29 September 1990 (Age 23), is from Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, India.