About District

Kohima,  is a hilly district of India’s North Eastern State of Nagaland, sharing its borders with Assam State and Dimapur District in the West, Phek District in the East, Manipur State and Peren District in the South and Wokha District in the North. One of the oldest among the eleven districts of the state, Kohima is the first seat of modern administration as the Headquarters of Naga Hills District (then under Assam) with the appointment of G.H. Damant as Political Officer in 1879. When Nagaland became a full fledged state on 1st December, 1963, Kohima was christened as the capital of the state. Since then, parts of Kohima district have been carved out thrice – the first in 1973 when Phek District was created, then in 1998 Dimapur was carved out and declared as a separate district and it was  in 2004 for the third time that Kohima district once again gave birth to one of the youngest districts in the state called Peren District.
                The name Kohima is so called because the British could not pronounce its original name “KEWHIRA” which is the name of the village where Kohima town is located. Kohima village , also called ‘Bara Basti’ which is the second largest village in Asia forms the North-Eastern part of Kohima Urban area today.