People of Assam
| Total population | |
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| 31,169,272 (2011) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 India
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31,169,272 |
 Bangladesh
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Not estimated |
 Bhutan
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Not estimated |
| Languages | |
• .png){kind=small} Assamese (and its dialect variants: Kamrupi, Goalpariya) •  Bengali Bodo• Minorities: Mishing, Karbi, Dimasa, Kuki
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| Religion | |
•  Hinduism • .svg){kind=small} Traditional, Panentheistic •  Islam • Christianity •  Sikhism
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| Related ethnic groups | |
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• Ahom • Assamese Brahmins • Kalita • Sutiya • Koch Rajbongshi • Bodo • Dimasa • Karbi • Mishing • Kuki • Deuri Surname Families: Barman •Barooah (and its variations) • Bharali • Borah • Chakraborty (and its variations) • Chaudhary • Das • Deka • Dutta • Gogoi • Gohain • Goswami • Hazarika • Kalita • Phukan • Rajbongshi • Rajkhowa • Saikia • Sarma • Sutiya |
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• Ahom • Assamese Brahmins • Kalita • Sutiya • Koch Rajbongshi • Bodo • Dimasa • Karbi • Mishing • Kuki • Deuri
Surname Families:
The people of Assam inhabit a multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic and multi-religious society. They speak languages that belong to three main language groups: Indo-Aryan, Austroasiatic and Tibeto-Burman. The large number of ethnic and linguistic groups, the population composition and the peopling process in the state has led to it being called an "India in miniature".
Geographically Assam contains fertile river valleys surrounded and interspersed by mountains and hills. It is accessible from Tibet in the north (via Bum La, Tse La, Tunga), across the Patkai in the Southeast (via Diphu, Kumjawng, Hpungan, Chaukam, Pangsau, More-Tamu) and from Burma across the Arakan Yoma (via An, Taungup). In the west both the Brahmaputra valley and the Barak valley open widely to the Gangetic plains. Assam has been populated via all these accessible points in the past. It has been estimated that there were eleven major waves and streams of ethnolinguistic migrations across these points over time.
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