Ledo is a small town in
Tinsukia district
Tinsukia district () is one of the 34 administrative districts in the state of Assam, India. The district headquarters is located at Tinsukia city. The district occupies an area of 3790 km2.
Towns
*Digboi
* Doomdooma
* Jagun
* Kakopathar
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,
Assam
Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...
,
India
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. , the Ledo railway station is the easternmost
broad gauge railway station in India. The town is also the starting point of
Ledo Road
The Ledo Road (from Ledo, Assam, India to Kunming, Yunnan, China) was an overland connection between India and China, built during World War II to enable the Western Allies to deliver supplies to China and aid the war effort against Japan ...
, also known as Stilwell Road, a highway built during
World War II
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for use by
American and
British
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troops as a military supply route to
China through
Myanmar
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...
(Burma)
The first coal mine in Assam was started near Ledo in 1882 when the erstwhile Assam Railway & Trading Company was laying a
metre gauge railway line in that region.
Nearest Town and Villages
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Tirap Gaon
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Lekhapani
Lekhapani is a town in Tinsukia district, Assam, India.
and it is also the last frontier of North Frontier Railway(but it is inoperative since 1993) Lekhapani railway station
Geography
It is located at an elevation of 150 m above MSL.
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Margherita
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Tipong
References
Cities and towns in Tinsukia district
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