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Districts: Corrected Tuensang population

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[[File:Nagalandmap.png|thumb|right|300px|District map of Nagaland]]

'''[[Nagaland]]''', a [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[India]], has 12 administrative districts.<ref>{{cite web|title=Districts of Nagaland|url=http://districts.nic.in/disdetails.aspx?str_state=bmw=|work=A Gateway to Districts of India on the Web|publisher=National Informatics Centre|accessdate=4 January 2013|location=New Delhi|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303235534/http://districts.nic.in/disdetails.aspx?str_state=bmw=|archive-date=3 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Administration==
A district of an Indian state is an administrative geographical unit, headed by a district magistrate or a deputy commissioner, an officer belonging to the [[Indian Administrative Service]]. The district magistrate or the deputy commissioner is assisted by a number of officials belonging to different wings of the administrative services of the state.

A superintendent of Police, an officer belonging to [[Indian Police Service]] is entrusted with the responsibility of maintaining law and order and related issues.

==History==
In 1957, the Naga Hills District of [[Assam]] and Tuensang Frontier Division of the [[North-East Frontier Agency]] (now Arunachal Pradesh) were joined to form the centrally governed Naga Hills Tuensang Area. At that point the previous subdivisions became Kohima, Mokokchung and Tuensang districts. February 1961 saw the renaming of Naga Hills Tuensang Area to "Nagaland", and in December 1963 Nagaland [[Nagaland#Nagaland statehood|became the 16th state]] of India.

December 1973 saw the new districts of Wokha and Zunheboto carved out of Mokokchung, Mon district carved from Tuensang district, and Phek district created out of Kohima district.<ref name="2011Mokokchung-dchb">{{cite web|title=District Census Handbook Mokokchung|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/1302_PART_B_DCHB_MOKOKCHUNG.pdf|publisher=Census of India|date=2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151114004055/http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/1302_PART_B_DCHB_MOKOKCHUNG.pdf |archive-date=14 November 2015}}</ref>{{rp|8}}

In 1997 Dimapur district was carved from Kohima district.<ref>{{cite web|title=Know Your Districts: Phek - The Morung Express|url=http://morungexpress.com/know-districts-phek/|website=The Morung Express|date=8 June 2016|access-date=1 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190606205430/http://morungexpress.com/know-districts-phek/|archive-date=6 June 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=About Wokha|url=http://wokha.nic.in/about%20wokha.htm|publisher=Wokha Dist Administration|date=2010}}</ref>

Three more districts were added in January 2004: [[Kiphire district|Kiphire]], [[Longleng district|Longleng]] and [[Peren district|Peren]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Socio-Economic Profile of Rural India (series II) |last1=Patra |first1=S. C. |last2=Vachhani |first2=Ashish |publisher=Concept Publishing Company |year=2011 |isbn=9788180697241 |page=106 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f7UTH5ROsKAC&pg=PA106 |accessdate=2014-08-06}}</ref> Kiphire and Longleng districts were carved from Tuensang district, Peren district was carved from Kohima district.<ref>{{cite web|title=Nagaland: Know Your Districts - An overview -III - The Morung Express|url=http://morungexpress.com/nagaland-know-districts-overview-iii/|website=The Morung Express|date=17 October 2017|access-date=1 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190520153243/http://morungexpress.com/nagaland-know-districts-overview-iii/|archive-date=20 May 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[Noklak district]] was created on 21 December 2017, previously having been a sub-district of Tuensang district.<ref>{{cite news|title=Noklak is Nagaland’s youngest district|url=http://www.easternmirrornagaland.com/noklak-is-nagalands-youngest-district/|work=Eastern Mirror|date=21 December 2017}}</ref>

==Districts==
The twelve districts of Nagaland, and their capitals, 2011 census populations,<ref name="2011census-A3">{{cite web|title=Primary Census Abstract |url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/pca/default.aspx|publisher=Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India|date=2011|quote="Select State Nagaland, Select District All, Submit"}}</ref> areas and elevations (of the seat) are:
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{|class="wikitable sortable mw-datatable"
|-class=static-row-header style=vertical-align:bottom
! District !! class="unsortable"|Seat !! Area (km²) !! Elevation (m) !! Population total !! Population rural !! Population urban !! Date created
|- style="text-align:right;"
| style="text-align:left"|[[Dimapur district]] || [[Dimapur]] || 927 || 145 || 378,811 || 180,942 || 197,869 || 1997
|- style="text-align:right;"
| style="text-align:left"|[[Kiphire district]] || [[Kiphire]] || 1,130 || 896 || 74,004 || 57,517 || 16,487 || 2004
|- style="text-align:right;"
| style="text-align:left"|[[Kohima district]] || [[Kohima]] || 1,463 || 1,444 || 267,988 || 146,900 || 121,088 || 1957
|- style="text-align:right;"
| style="text-align:left"|[[Longleng district]] || [[Longleng]] || 562 || 1,066 || 50,484 || 42,871 || 7,613 || 2004
|- style="text-align:right;"
| style="text-align:left"|[[Mokokchung district]] || [[Mokokchung]] || 1,615 || 1,325 || 194,622 || 138,897 || 55,725 || 1957
|- style="text-align:right;"
| style="text-align:left"|[[Mon District]] || [[Mon, India|Mon]] || 1,786 || 655 || 250,260 || 215,816 || 34,444 || 1973
|- style="text-align:right;"
| style="text-align:left"|[[Peren district]] || [[Peren]] || 2,300 || 1,445 || 95,219 || 81,429 || 13,790 || 2004
|- style="text-align:right;"
| style="text-align:left"|[[Phek district]] || [[Phek]] || 2,026 || 1,524 || 163,418 || 138,843 || 24,575 || 1973
|- style="text-align:right;"
| style="text-align:left"|[[Tuensang district]] || [[Tuensang]] || 2,536 || 1,371 || 137,296 || 100,522 || 36,774 || 1957
|- style="text-align:right;"
| style="text-align:left"|[[Wokha district]] || [[Wokha]] || 1,628 || 1,313 || 166,343 || 131,339 || 35,004 || 1973
|- style="text-align:right;"
| style="text-align:left"|[[Zunheboto district]] || [[Zunheboto]] || 1,255 || 1,852 || 140,757 || 113,160 || 27,597 || 1973
|- style="text-align:right;"
| style="text-align:left"|[[Noklak district]] || [[Noklak]] || 1,152 || || 59,300 || 59,300 || 0 || 2017
|}
==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160303235534/http://districts.nic.in/disdetails.aspx?str_state=bmw= A Gateway to Districts of India]

{{Districts of India}}

[[Category:Districts of Nagaland| ]]
[[Category:Nagaland-related lists|Districts]]
[[Category:Lists of districts in India|Nagaland]]

List of districts of Nagaland - Revision history

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