Ø Arunachal Pradesh borders
the states of Assam and Nagaland to the south, and
shares international borders with Bhutan in the west, Myanmar in the east and China in the north. Itanagar is
the capital of the state.
Ø Arunachal Pradesh, which
translates to "land of the dawn-lit mountains",is also known
as the Orchid State of India or the Paradise of the Botanists.
Ø In 1913–1914 representatives
of China, Tibet and Britain met in India ending with the Simla Accord. McMahon Line as the border between
British India and Outer Tibet during the Simla Conference.
Ø The land is mostly
mountainous with the Himalayan range along the northern borders criss-crossed
with ranges running north- south. These divide the state into five river
valleys: the Kameng, the Subansiri, the Siang, the Lohit and the Tirap. All these are snow fed
from the Himalayas and so are countless rivers and rivulets. The mightiest of
these rivers is the Siang,
called the Tsangpo in Tibet, which becomes the Brahmaputra after the Dibang and the Lohit in the plains of Assam joins it.
Ø The main crop is rice, grown
on valley bottoms and on some terraced slopes.
Ø Donyi-Polo (also Donyi-Poloism) is the designation given to the indigenous religions, Hindu
(34.6%),Others (mostly Donyi-Polo) (30.7%) and Christian:
(18.7%)
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