Ampati is a district headquarters of South West Garo Hills of Meghalaya state in north-eastern India.[1] South West Garo Hills is curved of present West Garo Hills on 7 August 2012. '''Ampati''' is a district headquarters of [[South West Garo Hills district|South West Garo Hills]] of [[Meghalaya]] state in north-eastern [[India]].[http://westgarohills.nic.in/sdocivil.html Civil Sub-divisions]
{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130324201129/http://westgarohills.nic.in/sdocivil.html |date=24 March 2013 }}, West Garo Hills District Administration [[South West Garo Hills district|South West Garo Hills]] is curved of present [[West Garo Hills]] on 7 August 2012. It is located at the latitude of 25º27.505 and longitude of 089º56.456 and is 52 km away from the district headquarters [[Tura, Meghalaya|Tura]] of West Garo Hills district, [[Meghalaya]]. The hill region is mostly inhabited by the [[Garo people|Garos]], while in the foothills there are [[Hajong people |Hajongs]] and [[Koch people|Koches]]. The district is surrounded by [[South Salmara district]] of [[Assam]] and [[Kurigram District]] of [[Bangladesh]]. South West Garo Hills has approximately 35 kilometres of international boundary with [[Bangladesh]] on the south and western side. Nearly one third of the total number of villages of the district is declared as border villages by the Border Area Development Department.
