Kohima: Nagaland

Kohima is a hilly town which serves as the capital of India’s north eastern border state of Nagaland. It shares its borders with Burma. It lies in Kohima District and is the second largest urban hub in Nagaland after Dimapur-Chumukedima.Kohima is also one of the three Nagaland towns with Municipal council status alongwith Dimapur and Mokokchung.

In 1944 during World War II the Battle of Kohima along with the simultaneous Battle of Imphal was the turning point in the Burma Campaign. For the first time in South-East Asia the Japanese lost the initiative to the Allies which they then retained until the end of the war.

Kohima has a large cemetery for the Allied war dead maintained by the Commonwealth Graves Commission.The cemetery lies on the slopes of Garrison Hill which was the scene of intense fighting.The verse carved on the memorial of the 2nd British Division in the cemetery When you go back
tell them of us and say for their tomorrow we gave our today has become world-famous as the Kohima poem.