Namrup is a small town situated close to the foothills of the Patkai Hills in the extreme southeastern part of Assam, India.

Namrup is situated in amidst wet-paddy fields, indigenous Assamese villages, orchards, large tea-gardens and densely forested hills.

BVFCL (Brahmaputra Valley Fertilizer Corporation Ltd.), APL (Assam Petrochemicals Ltd.) and NTPS (Namrup Thermal Power Station).

[citation needed] The history of this modern town started with the decision of the Indian Government to establish a natural gas-based fertilizer factory in the area during the early 1960s.

The name of the town during the pre-Ahom period is not known, but it is easily understood that the area was inhabited by considerable size of population under the Borahis chiefly along with other indigenous ethnic groups like Chutia, Moran, Kachari and some Kaibartas.

[citation needed] It was the seat for the Namrupeeya Roja, one of the four contenders of the throne representing an important clan of the royal dynasty.

[citation needed] Coraikhurung in Namrup was used as a secret place and a safe habitat of the king during the external attacks from west.

The Dhodor Aali was constructed four hundred years back connecting the then capital Garhgaon and Joypur via Borhat.

The main communities living in the area are migrant Tea-tribes of Assam and indigenous ethnic groups like Chutia, Sonowal Kacharis, Keot (Kaibarta) and Tai people.

The retail commercial areas in the Sonari Tiniali and the BVFC market together forms short of a town-centre, which is also very close to the ASTC bus depot and the central Namghor (the religious-cultural place and the auditorium).

It is an important town[citation needed] in terms of health infrastructure serving large parts of Dibrugarh, Xiwoxagor (Sibsagar) districts and Arunachal Pradesh.

But the most important inter-city and regional linkages are supported by the numerous private buses linking almost all the cities and towns in Upper and Central Assam and also with Guwahati.

Namrup rail station in the Dibrugarh-Tinicukeeya (Tinsukia)-Guwahati main line is a stop for a few regional and also long-distance trains.

During the winter and mostly during the New Year's Day Dillighat becomes a busy picnic spot, along with the jackwell situated near the BVFCL factory is a tourist attraction of this area.

Clean water, river-bed rocks, green canopy of forests and tea gardens are attractions in Dillighat.

Other places of interest within the town include the Namrup Bagan, the ASEB-(world’s largest baseload turbine station) colony,[3] Kheremeeya Village, Dilli Dowania Gaon, Rangagoraah, Dillighat, Naliapool, Jackwell, waterfalls in patkai range, railway station, and gandhi maidan.