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Longwa Village

26.6614°N, 95.2198°EOPEN YEAR-ROUND

The best-known village of the Konyak Naga in Mon district, Nagaland — historically among the Naga peoples famed for headhunting, whose eldest men still wear the facial tattoos that marked it. The village is ruled by a hereditary chief, the Angh, whose house famously straddles the India–Myanmar border, and its residents are widely reported to enjoy a form of dual nationality.

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