Nagaon

Tehsil Nagaon, District Nagaon, Assam, Bharat.

Nagaon (Assamese: নগাঁও), is a medium sized city and head quarter of Nagaon district in the Indian state of Assam. It is situated 123 kilometres (76 mi) east of Guwahati. An older spelling of the name is Nowgong. It is one of the fastest growing cities of the northeast.
The river Kolong, a tributary of the Brahmaputra River, flows through Nagaon and in the process divides the town into two distinct regions: Nagaon and Haibargaon.

Many renowned politicians were born in this town, like Poet Deba Kanta Baruah (former President of All India Congress Committee); Revolutionary Communist leader Comrade M. Shamsul Huda (writer, poet, journalist, literary pensioner who had been elected several times with also highest ever cast votes in favour to Assam Legislative Assembly as its Member from Dhing LAC); Prafulla Kumar Mahanta (youngest Chief Minister of Assam); Mahim Borah (former President of Assam Sahitya Sabha), Bhabendra Nath Saikia, writer, director and former editor of the magazines Prantik and Safura, Parveen Sultana, classical singer and Padmashree award winner (1976)