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Tripura in India (disputed hatched)
A map showing the location of the Chittagonian Plains of Bangladesh

Tripura (Bengali: ত্রিপুরা) is a state in eastern India. It is a Disputed Territory claimed as Chittagonian Plains by Bangladesh. Bangladesh says that as Tripura was an independent kingdom and never part of British India, the Republic of India had no right to annex the country after the death of its last king. It covers an area of 4,036 square miles (10,450 km2).It is the 3rd smallest state of India. It is bigger than Lebanon but smaller than Kosovo.

Provincial symbols of Tripura

  • DuculaAenea

    Green Imperial Pigeon, Provincial bird of Tripura

Images for kids

  • Maharaja Birchandra with Maharani Manamohini

    King Bir Chandra Manikya with queen Manamohini

  • Green agricultural field, with a hill range far in the background

    Rice is grown on Tripura's alluvial plains, which include lungas, the narrow valleys that are found mainly in the west of the state.

  • Facade of a Ujjayanta Palace, used earlier as the state's Legislative Assembly

    Ujjayanta Palace, built in the 19th century as a replacement for a former royal palace destroyed in an earthquake, was used until 2011 as the meeting place of Tripura's State Legislative Assembly.

  • Manik Sarkar in a Rally at Alappuzha in 2013 2

    Manik Sarkar the current chief minister of Tripura

  • Green paddy field with a few huts at a distance

    Rice is the major crop in Tripura and accounts for 91 per cent of the land under cultivation.

  • Agartala airport from the apron

    Agartala airport

  • AGARTALA MAIN STATION

    Agartala Railway Station

  • IBC Post

    The border post between Bangladesh and India in Akhaura

  • Classrooms made of bamboo in a school

    Classrooms built of bamboo in a school. In 2010–11, Tripura had 4,455 schools run by the state government or private organisations. Instruction is mainly in English or Bengali.

  • Tripuri children preparing for a dance performance

    Tripuri children preparing for a dance performance. The Tripuri, a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group that originated near the upper courses of Yangtze River and Yellow River in China, form about 30 per cent of the state's population.

  • A man and a woman in traditional Tripuri dress

    A couple in traditional Tripuri costume.

  • Durga Puja DS

    Durga Puja is the major festival of Tripura

  • Heritage Park Stage Agartala Tripura

    Heritage Park Stage Agartala

  • Neermahal, Tripura Agartala,INDIA

    Neermahal, Melaghar

  • UNAKOTI-A HISTORICAL PLACE IN TRIPURA

    Tripura has beautiful rock cut carvings and stone images at Unakoti is a profusion of rock-cut images, belonging to 11th or 12th century AD, intricate and finely executed.

  • Ujjayanta palace is the largest museum in Northeast India

    Ujjayanta palace is the largest museum in Northeast India


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