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Kamrup

Kamrup is an administrative district in the state of Assam in India, named after Kamarupa the name Assam was previously known in ancient times. The district, however, is now a small western part of Assam, with a distinctive native (Assamese) sub-culture and dialect (both known as Kamrupi). The distinctive dialect etc. are, however, shared with the present administrative districts of Nalbari and Barpeta, these districts being part of a un-divided Kamrup before the 1980s.

Since 2005, this pre-divided district has however again been sub-divided between the Kamrup (Metropolitan) and Kamrup (rural) districts, the former comprising of the Metropolitan city of Guwahati and the latter the rest of the district.

Both of the district headquarters are located (rather side by side) in the heart of the city of Guwahati. This pair of districts occupies an total area of 4345 km² and has a population of 2,515,030 (as of 2001). The metropolitan district population is somewhere around a million.

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