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Tripura

India is one the place where you will see some of the most diverse traditions and culture, along with this you will be able to see people from almost all of the religions, however, respect is the word for all the religions and for the people associated with those religions. There are 28 states in India in total and all of them have quite some diversification and disparity in all the things that they do and which are basically associated to the specific culture of the state. Tripura is the state of India that is located in the North East region of India.

The name of Tripura was given to it after the name of a king whose name was Tripur; however, there are some other people according to which the name was due to some other reason. However, the history of Tripura is quite old and have a religion importance as the name of is been found in Mahabharata and Puranas as well. Agartala is the capital and the largest city of the state. There are total four districts in this state. Due to the small number of districts, the population is not large, especially when compared to the other states; the population make it the 21st largest in the 28 states. The basic languages that are spoken here are Bengali, Kokborok (Tripuri). The major religion is Hinduism; however, other religions like Islam, Christianity and Buddhism are also practiced by a large number of people.

Basically, Tripura is a hilly place and that is the reason for its climate to be like the one. Climatic conditions are tropical in nature with good amount of rain to go with. Professionally, people are associated with the agriculture and with its related fields. Most of the people are related directly or indirectly with the cultivation of the crops and especially the food crops. Along with this, you can find a lot of people associated with the handicrafts and hand woven things and stuff. Rubber is another specialty of this state.

Being the multilingual state, culture is quite diverse and making it the best place for tourism.