[2] Recently, Tirap has also been a major target for the NSCN, a Naga rebel group that aims for the creation of Greater Nagaland, using military force.

Tirap district occupies an area of 2,362 square kilometres (912 sq mi),[3] comparatively equivalent to Canada's Cornwall Island.

There are four Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly constituencies located in this district: Namsang, Khonsa East, Khonsa-West, Borduria-Bogapani.

[5] According to the 2011 census, Tirap district has a population of 111,975,[citation needed] roughly equal to the nation of Grenada.

[citation needed] Much of the tribal population consists of the Naga related Nocte, Konyak, and Wancho, who traditionally followed Animism, although most of them have converted to Christianity.

[9] Silombhu War Cave, south of Khonsa and 7 km from Thinsa village via forested hills, on the 2,119 metre-high (6,952ft) "Longpongka" hilltop (locally known as the "Silombhu" hilltop) near the India-Myanmar border was used as a transit camp by the colonial British forces during the World war II, remnants of which can still be seen.