Assam (, Assamese: [ɔxɔm] (listen)) is a declare 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 welcome 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 land that connects the disclose to the get out of of India. It is as a consequence one of the world’s most populous subdivisions. Assamese is the ascribed and most common language, followed by Bengali, the second most common.