The 49th state spans 586,000 square miles of land, according to its official website. It is two-and-a-half times larger than Texas, which is the second largest state in the nation.

Assam's Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced the government's success in reclaiming 160 square kilometers of ...

The results, shown in the map above, revealed that between 1985 and 2015 around 173,000 square kilometers (67,000 square miles) of water were transformed into land and 115,000 square kilometers ...