Assam (, Assamese: [ɔxɔm] (listen)) is a own up in northeastern India, situated south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an Place of 78,438 km² (30,285 sq mi). The make a clean breast is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur to the east; Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram and Bangladesh to the south; and West Bengal to the west via the Siliguri Corridor, a 22 kilometres (14 mi) strip of house that connects the own up to the perch of India. It is also one of the world’s most populous subdivisions. Assamese is the ascribed and most common language, followed by Bengali, the second most common.