Dong, Arunachal Pradesh

Dong
town
Dong Location in Arunachal Pradesh, India
Coordinates: 28°10′12″N 97°2′30″E / 28.17000°N 97.04167°E / 28.17000; 97.04167Coordinates: 28°10′12″N 97°2′30″E / 28.17000°N 97.04167°E / 28.17000; 97.04167
Country	India
State	Arunachal Pradesh
District	Lohit district
Elevation	1,240 m (4,070 ft)
Languages
• Official	English
Time zone	IST (UTC+05:30)

Dong is a small village in Lohit district, Arunachal Pradesh, India. It is the easternmost village in the country, near the point where India, China and Myanmar meet.^[1]

Location

Dong lies at the junction of the Lohit River and the Sati (or Sai Ti) stream at an elevation of 1,240 metres (4,070 ft).^[1]

Tourism

The Dong valley is unspoiled and has great natural beauty.^[2]

Demographics

The village, with just three huts, can be reached on foot from Walong in a 90-minute climb. The children go to school in Walong. The local people grow rice, makai and maize and raise pigs and chickens.^[1]

Transport

The 2,000-kilometre-long (1,200 mi) proposed Mago-Thingbu to Vijaynagar Arunachal Pradesh Frontier Highway along the McMahon Line,^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] (will intersect with the proposed East-West Industrial Corridor Highway) and will pass through this district, alignment map of which can be seen here and here.^[7]

State of Arunachal Pradesh

Capital: Itanagar

Topics	Category History Politics Cuisine

Districts	Anjaw Changlang Dibang Valley East Kameng East Siang Kurung Kumey Lohit Longding Lower Dibang Valley Lower Siang district Lower Subansiri Papum Pare Tawang Tirap Upper Subansiri Upper Siang West Kameng West Siang Siang

Major cities	Pasighat Itanagar Ziro Bomdila Tawang Daporijo Tezu Along Seppa Naharlagun

Historical Places	Gomsi Ita Fort

Portal: India

Minority Concentrated Districts in India

Andaman & Nicobar Islands	Nicobar

Arunachal Pradesh	East Kameng Lower Subansiri Changlang Tirap Tawang West Kameng Papum Pare

Assam	Kokrajhar Dhubri Goalpara Bongaigaon Barpeta Darrang Marigaon Nagaon Cachar Karimganj Hailakandi Kamrup North Cachar Hills

Bihar	Araria Kishanganj Purnia Katihar Sitamarhi Pashchim Champaran Darbhanga

Delhi	North East

Haryana	Gurgaon Sirsa

Jammu & Kashmir	Leh

Jharkhand	Sahibganj Pakaur Ranchi Gumla

Karnataka	Gulbarga Bidar

Kerala	Wayanad

Madhya Pradesh	Bhopal

Maharashtra	Parbhani Buldana Washim Hingoli

Manipur	Thoubal Senapati Tamenglong Churachandpur Ukhrul Chandel

Meghalaya	West Garo Hills

Mizoram	Lawngtlai Mamit

Orissa	Gajapati

Sikkim	North

Uttar Pradesh	Bulandshahar Budaun Barabanki Kheri Shahjahanpur Moradabad Rampur Jyotiba Phule Nagar Bareilly Pilibhit Bahraich Shrawasti Balrampur Siddharthnagar Bijnor Lucknow Saharanpur Muzaffarnagar Meerut Baghpat Ghaziabad

Uttaranchal	Udham Singh Nagar Hardwar

West Bengal	Uttar Dinajpur Dakshin Dinajpur Maldah Murshidabad Birbhum Nadia South 24 Parganas Barddhaman Koch Bihar Haora North 24 Parganas Kolkata

Source: "Press Information Bureau English Releases". Pib.nic.in. Retrieved 2014-01-14.

States and Union Territories of India

States	Andhra Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh Assam Bihar Chhattisgarh Goa Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh Jammu and Kashmir Jharkhand Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram Nagaland Odisha Punjab Rajasthan Sikkim Tamil Nadu Telangana Tripura Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand West Bengal

Union Territories	Andaman and Nicobar Islands Chandigarh Dadra and Nagar Haveli National Capital Territory of Delhi Daman and Diu Lakshadweep Puducherry

Proposed states and territories Historical Regions British Provinces

References

Citations

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gokhale 2001.
↑ Dong in Arunachal....
↑ "Top officials to meet to expedite road building along China border". Dipak Kumar Dash. timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
↑ "Narendra Modi government to provide funds for restoration of damaged highways". http://www.dnaindia.com. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
↑ "Indian Government Plans Highway Along Disputed China Border". Ankit Panda. thediplomat.com. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
↑ "Govt planning road along McMohan line in Arunachal Pradesh: Kiren Rijiju". Live Mint. Retrieved 2014-10-26.
↑ "China warns India against paving road in Arunachal". Ajay Banerjee. tribuneindia.com. Retrieved 2014-10-26.

Sources

"Dong in Arunachal will herald millennium dawn". Rediff. December 20, 1999. Retrieved 2012-12-16.
Gokhale, Nitin A. (20 August 2001). "Dong". Outlook India. Retrieved 2012-12-16.