{"id":8501,"date":"2023-04-14T05:39:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T00:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8501"},"modified":"2025-03-29T03:24:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T21:54:21","slug":"kibithoo-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/kibithoo-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Kibithoo Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>During his trip, the home minister had said that Kibithoo should not be termed as India&#8217;s last village but first village as the Sun&#8217;s rays fall first in this village in the country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>About Kibithoo Village:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong>: It is located in <strong>Anjaw district of Arunachal Pradesh<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It lies on the <strong>right bank of the Lohit River<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Elevation<\/strong>: <strong>1305<\/strong> meters.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Meyors tribe<\/strong> form <strong>bulk of its population<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is one of the <strong>most remote Circle Headquarters in Arunachal Pradesh<\/strong> and the <strong>only Circle Headquarters facing the border of India and China.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has also been the <strong>witness of the war between India and China<\/strong> in the year 1962.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about Lohit River:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>farthest east tributary of Brahmaputra River.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Origin<\/strong>: Tirap Phasi Ranges located in the<strong> Eastern Tibet.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It <strong>enters India via Kibithoo village<\/strong> lying at the border post in Arunachal Pradesh.<\/li>\n<li>The river after entering the country <strong>travels through Mishmi Hills<\/strong> of Anjaw and then move towards Lohit district.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The river travels all along<\/strong> from Tibet to Arunachal Pradesh <strong>for about two hundred kilometers, before merging in Brahmaputra River<\/strong>, Assam.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0Which is India\u2019s westernmost point?<\/h3>\n<p>West of Ghuar Mota in Gujarat is the westernmost point of India. Its Latitude\/Longitide is 23.67 N\/ 68.52 E. Ghuar Mota is in the Kutch region of Gujarat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/amit-shah-urges-people-to-visit-indias-first-village-kibithoo-in-arunachal-pradesh\/article66732553.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Amit Shah urges people to visit India&#8217;s &#8216;first village&#8217; Kibithoo in Arunachal Pradesh<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kibithoo Village is located in Anjaw district of Arunachal Pradesh on the right bank of the Lohit River.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}