Northeast India is the eastern-most region of India connected to East India via a narrow corridor squeezed between Bhutan and Bangladesh. It comprises the contiguous Seven Sister States (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Tripura), plus the Himalayan state of Sikkim. Except for the Goalpara region of Assam, the rest were late entrants to political India; the Brahmaputra valley area of Assam became a part of British India in 1824, with the hill regions annexed even later. Sikkim was annexed to the Indian union through a referendum in 1975 and was recognized as part of Northeast India in the 1990s. Northeast India is generally considered to be a backward enclave in a progressing economyand one of the most challenging regions of the country to govern.Northeast India constitute about 8% of India's size; roughly 3/4th the size of the state of Maharashtra. Its population is approximately 40 million (2011 census), 3.1% of the total Indian population; roughly equal to that of Odisha.The Siliguri Corridor in West Bengal, with a width of 21 to 40 kilometres (13 to 25 mi),connects the North Eastern region with the main part of India. The region shares more than 4,500 kilometres (2,800 mi) of international border (about 90 per cent of its entire border area) with China (southern Tibet) in the north, Myanmar in the east, Bangladesh in the southwest, and Bhutan to the northwest.
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