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Silchar
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About Silchar
Silchar sits on the route: 5 minutes from Kanakpur I.
Silchar is in Assam, India, with about 180,000 people. You drive on the left here. The nearest town is Kanakpur I, about 4 km away.
Silchar is a city and the headquarters of the Cachar district of the state of Assam, India. It is second largest city of Assam after Guwahati in terms of population and GDP. It is located 343 kilometres (213 mi; 185 nmi) south east of Guwahati. It was founded by Captain Thomas Fisher in 1832 when he shifted theRead more
headquarters of Cachar to Janiganj in Silchar. It earned the moniker "Island of Peace" from Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India. Silchar is the site of the world's first polo club and the first competitive polo match. In 1985, an Air India flight from Kolkata to Silchar became the world's first all-women crew flight. Silchar was a tea town and Cachar club was the meeting point for tea planters.
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Silchar is in Assam, India, about 4 km from Kanakpur I.
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- Population
- 178,865
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- India
- Region
- Assam
- Timezone
- Asia/Kolkata
- Coordinates
- 24.8273, 92.7979
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