Bodo is a statutory language of provincial identity in Assam (India), and the official language of the Bodoland Territorial Region, an autonomous region in the northeast of India. It is spoken in Bodoland, in the neighboring districts of Darrang, Goalpara, Kamrup, and Nagaon, and also in the Lakhimpur and Sivsagar districts in northeastern Assam. It is also spoken in the Chandel district of Manipur state, the West Garo Hills and East Khasi Hills districts of Meghalaya, and in the of Cooch-Behar, Darjeeling, and Jalpaiguri districts of West Bengal.