Williamnagar

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Place details

Locality: Williamnagar
Region: Meghalaya
Country: India
Population: 24,597
Timezone: Asia/Kolkata

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Key facts

Settlement.name: Williamnagar
Settlement.native_name: Simsanggre
Settlement.settlement_type: city
Settlement.image_skyline: SIMSANG FESTIVAL CARNIVAL2013.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Simsang Winter Festival
Settlement.pushpin_map: India Meghalaya#India
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Meghalaya, India
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: India
Settlement.subdivision_type1: State
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Meghalaya
Settlement.subdivision_type2: District
Settlement.subdivision_name2: East Garo Hills
Settlement.unit_pref: Metric
Settlement.population_total: 18251
Settlement.population_as_of: 2001
Settlement.population_density_km2: auto
Settlement.demographics_type1: Languages

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Dialing code: 3658

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postal code: 794111

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Places of interest
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Williamnagar, formerly known as Simsanggre, is the headquarters of East Garo Hills district in the state of Meghalaya in India.

==History== Williamnagar, the headquarters complex of the East Garo Hills district of Meghalaya, one of the states of northeastern India, was christened after Captain Williamson A. Sangma, the founding chief minister of the state of Meghalaya. The township was planned around the erstwhile village of Simsanggre, on the vast plainlands along the bank of the Simsang River, in 1976 after the Garo Hills district of yesteryear was re-organised to carve out a new district called East Garo Hills District.