Naga Hills

[nah-guh]

noun

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

Example Sentences

Gen. Kotoku Sato arrived with the aim of taking over Kohima, a hill town that was also the British headquarters in the Naga Hills.

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Wangnao is one of several hundred former headhunters still living in the mist-covered Naga hills along the wild frontier between India and Myanmar.

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Even then, large tracks of the Naga Hills remained officially “unadministered” until the Raj’s demise in 1947.

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The cloud-enshrouded Naga hills—and the fierce reputation of their inhabitants—have kept outsiders at bay for centuries.

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Chinese soldiers march down a road in northern Burma on their way to engage in battle with Japanese forces in the Naga hills in 1943.

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