Columbia Encyclopedia entry: Dibrugarh
Dibrugarhdĭb'roogər, city (1991 pop. 125,667), Assam state, NE India, at the confluence of the Brahmaputra and Bibru rivers. The town is on a narrow plain adjacent to hills and is often threatened by monsoon floods. It is a district administrative center and a terminus for rail and river traffic. There are four airfields, which were used by the British against Japanese forces in Myanmar during World II. Dibrugarh is surrounded by tea plantations and has tea factories and rice and oilseed mills. There is some coal mining and petroleum production.
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Dibrugarh is the headquarters of Dibrugarh District, Assam, India.
Dibrugarh is the third largest town after Guwahati and Silchar in the state of Assam.It is situated on the banks of the River Brahmaputra, in Upper Assam, India, is the gateway to the three tea producing districts of Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, and Sivasagar. These three areas account for approximately 50% of India's Assam tea crop and this gives Dibrugarh its rightly earned sobriquet as the Tea City of India. Oil and Timber are the other big two industries in and around Dibrugarh.
In 1950, an earthquake measuring over 8.5 on the Richter Scale, changed the course of the River Brahmaputra,...more »
