Fact File – Assam

AREA  78, 438 sq. km
CAPITAL  Dispur
ATTAINED STATEHOOD   August 15, 1947
POPULATION (2001 census)    26, 638, 407
INDIA RANKING IN POPULATION FIGURES (2001census)    14
DISTRICTS   23

LITERACY RATE (2001 census)    64.28
LANGUAGES     Assamese, Hindi, English.
LEGISLATURE Unicameral
CLIMATE

Summer
Maximum 38 degrees Celsius
Minimum 20 degrees Celsius
Winter
Maximum 30 degrees Celsius
Minimum 10 degrees Celsius

RAINFALL    200- 300 cms annual average
CLOTHING
Summer:-(April to October): Cotton
Winter:-( November to March): Woollen
SEASON TO VISIT     October to April 

Information offices:

1.Government of India Regional Tourist Office
G.L. Publication Complex, G.S. Road, Ulubari,
Guwahati- 781007 (Assam)
Tel: 456158
Telefax: 547407
GRAM:INDTOUR: e-mail: goitoguw@asm.nic.in

2. Government of India information counter
Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport,
Tel: 840204

3. Directorate of Tourism, Assam
Station Road, Guwahati- 781001
Tel: 542748, fax: (0361) 547102
E-mail: astdcorp@gwl.net.in
www.assamtourism.com
Tourism information counter

4. Assam Tourism Information Counter
Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport
Guwahati.

5. Tourist Information Counter
Govt of Assam, 8 Russel Street,
Kolkata- 700071
Tel: 2295094

6. Tourist Information Counter
Govt of Assam, B-1 Baba Kharak Singh Marg,
New Delhi- 110001
Tel: 3345897

7. Tourist Information Counter
Govt of Assam, Pradhan Nagar,
Siliguri- 734403(West- Bengal)

8. Tourist Information Counter
Railway station, Guwahati-781001