| Voice of Mokokchung
: Azungla Gamir

In Mokokchung, government should concentrate in uplifting the women.
Women are ignorant about their rights.
Women literacy is very low.
Widows of this district face lot of hardships.
Unemployment is a big challenge.
Mokokchung
District
Area, Population & Sex Ratio
Geographical Area : 1615.0 Km2
Population in Mokokchung (Census 2011)
Total Population
Total : 100229
Male : 92942
Female : 193171
Under 6 population
Total : 20046
Male : 10260
Female : 9786
Disabled population
Total disabled population : 2596
In seeing : 976
In speech : 397
In hearing : 462
In movement : 447
Mental : 314
Rank ( VoiceOfBharat.org Analysis
)
Backwardness : Does not figure in list of 447 backward
districts
Sex Ratio Rank : 210
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : A
(HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 - 2006)
Disability : 563 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : 28 (Census 2001)
Minority : Does not figure in MCD

Brief About Mokokchung District
Mokokchung, one of the districts in Nagaland, the Home of the
Ao Naga tribe. It covers an area of 1,615 sq km. It is bounded by
Assam to its north, Wokha to its west, Tuensang to its east, and
Zunheboto to its south. The physiography of the district shows six
distinct hill ranges. The ranges are more or less parallel to each
other and runs southeast direction. Explore the world of Mokokchung.
Geography
Mokokchung District is bounded by the state of Assam to its
north, Tuensang to its east, Zunheboto to its south and Wokha and
Assam to it’s west, and lies between 93.53 and 94.53 Degrees Longitude
and 25.56 Degrees Latitude. There are several Ranges that run more
or less parallel to each other in North-east or South-west direction.
Between the Ranges, there are glens and gorges through which flow
the hill streams. There are only two small valleys namely… Changki
and Tuli, and both of them are on the western side of the district
adjoining the plains of the Sibsagar district of Assam. The entire
District of Mokokchung is conveniently sub-divided into Ranges.
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