DARRANG, a district of British India, in the province of Assam. It lies between the Bhutan and Dafla hills and the Brahmaputra, including many islands in the river. The adminis trative headquarters are at Tezpur (pop. 10,268) on the right bank of the Brahmaputra. Its area is 3,197 sq.m. Pop, (1931) 584,817. This area was reduced in 1914 by the transfer of 500 sq.m. of almost uninhabited country to the Balipara Frontier Tract formed in that year. It is for the most part a level plain watered by many tributaries of the Brahmaputra. The district contains the two subdivisions of Tezpur and Mangaldai, tea being the principal cultivation in the valley of Tezpur, and rice in Man galdai. In Tezpur the density has risen to 157 per sq.m. from 42 in 1890 owing to large areas of waste land being brought under cultivation. In Mangaldai Boo sq.m. are available for settlement. There were 58,00o acres under tea with an output of 274 million lb. in 1921, when the tea-garden population numbered There are 568 sq.m. of reserved forests, mostly at the foot of the hills along the northern boundary.