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Naga Hills

American  
[nah-guh] / ˈnɑ gə /

noun

  1. a region in northeastern India and northwestern Myanmar (Burma), on the India-Myanmar border.


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The Supreme Court of India dismissed a petition filed by the state government claiming ownership of more than 25 acres of land at Naga Hills because it wasn’t filed on time, the newspaper reported.

From New York Times • Jan. 28, 2012

We knew nothing really about the Naga Hills, but the name sounded wonderful, full of the mysteries of the colonial East.

From The Guardian • Dec. 11, 2010

So low were we that it was only the following morning that, having scrambled up a steep bank, I caught sight of the Naga Hills for the first time.

From The Guardian • Dec. 11, 2010

Hacking its way through jungles, a rescue party is inching toward a wrecked transport plane locked in the almost uncharted Naga Hills of northern Burma.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even up to the Naga Hills campaign of 1879–80, the Nagas regarded Manipur as the greater power of the two, because her conduct was consistent; if she threatened, she acted.

From My Experiences in Manipur and the Naga Hills by Johnstone, James Johnstone, chevalier de

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