[1] West Garo Hills district is located at the westernmost part of Meghalaya.

[2] The Mahendraganj-Baksiganj international border crossing is at the Mahendraganj town in West Garo Hills district in India, on NH12 to Baksiganj in Mymensingh division, Bangladesh.

[3] West Garo Hills district presently has eight C & RD Blocks [4] The district has a Christian majority (most being from Garo community), with having significant Hindu and Muslim population (most being from Bengali community).

[6] According to the 2011 census West Garo Hills district has a population of 643,291,[1] roughly equal to the nation of Montenegro,[7] or the US state of Vermont.

[1] West Garo Hills has a sex ratio of 979 females for every 1000 males,[1] and a literacy rate of 68.38%.

[1] Tura has a mixed population of Garos or A'chiks (as they prefer to call themselves), Bengalis, Nepalis, Assamese, members of other ethnic groups such as the Hajong, Rabhas and Koches, Bodo and a fair sprinkling of South Indians in the Catholic Church, the teaching profession and the paramilitary forces.