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Ampati

Ampati
City
Ampati is located in Meghalaya
Ampati
Ampati
Ampati is located in India
Ampati
Ampati
Location in Meghalaya, India
Coordinates: 25°28′15″N 89°56′04″E / 25.470728°N 89.934529°E / 25.470728; 89.934529Coordinates: 25°28′15″N 89°56′04″E / 25.470728°N 89.934529°E / 25.470728; 89.934529
Country  India
State Meghalaya
District South West Garo Hills District.
Languages
 • Official English
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN 794115
Vehicle registration ML 14
Website southwestgarohills.gov.in

Ampati is a district headquarters of South West Garo Hills of Meghalaya state in north-eastern India.South West Garo Hills is curved of present West Garo Hills on 7 August 2012. It is located at the latitude of 25º27.505 and longitude of 089º56.456 and is 52 km away from the district headquarters Tura of West Garo Hills district, Meghalaya. The hill region is mostly inhabited by the Garos, while in the foothills there are Hajongs and Kochs.The second largest ethnicity after Garos is Hajongs. The district is surrounded by Dhubri district of Assam and Kurigram District of Bangladesh. South West Garo Hills has approximately 35 kilometres of international boundary with Bangladesh on the south and western side. Nearly one third of the total number of villages of the district is declared as border villages by the Border Area Development Department.

The total population of South West Garo Hills is 1,72,495 as per Census 2011, with 87,135 male and 85,360 female population. The literacy rate of the district is 56.7%. The district comprises two Community and Rural Development Block, viz. Betasing Community and Rural Development Block and Zikzak Community and Rural Development.

Total No. of household - 18,242

Total population - Male:47,796, Female:47,222, Total - 95,018

Literacy rate  : Male  : 61.8%, Female  : 53.5%, Total  : 57.6%

Total No. of household - 15,621

Total population - Male  : 39,339, Female  : 38,138, Total  : 77,477

Literacy rate  : Male  : 60%, Female  : 50.9%, Total  : 55.9%

In 1899, five families of Boldakgre converted to Christianity and baptized by Rev. E.G. Phillips, American Baptist Missionary.

After conversion finding difficulties to live among the non-Christian and facing hardships in jhum cultivation the five families of converts decided to leave Boldakgre once and for all. On learning that some uncultivated and uninhabited lands are lying under the A·king land of Dalbotpara and Chelipara they left their native place and came to settle under the Dalbotpara A·king land. The five families of converts were:


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