Papum Pare district, which is an administrative district in the state of Arunachal Pradesh in India, is the most populous district of Arunachal Pradesh as per the census of 2011. It is equivalent to Indonesia's Muna Island. The state capital is located at Itanagar. The administrative headquarters of the district is located at Yupia, which is situated about 20 kms from Itanagar. The district is covered by green forests, deep river valleys and beautiful plateau, trees of great size, plentiful of climbers, hundreds of variety of orchids, cane and bamboos. Majority of the land is mountainous with Himalayan ranges.

There are two administrative subdivisions Sagalee Sub-Division and Itanagar Capital Complex Sub-division. The district has nine administrative circles- Sagalee, Mengio, Toru, Laiporiang, Kimin, Balijan, Doimukh, Itanagar and Naharlagun. Kurung Kumey It shares borders with Papum Pare district in the north, Lower Subansiri District in the East, East Kameng District in the west and Assam in the south. It is the abode of the energetic Nishis who are famous in history for their velour. The Mikir, migrants from Assam, also constitute a part of the local population. The Nishis belong to the Indo-Mongoloid group of people with their language belonging to the Tibeto-Burman family.  The NYOKUM, a festival of the Nishis is celebrated during the first week of the month of February.

 Itafort- A 13th century ramnants of a brick fort, Ganga Lake, Jawaharlal Nehru State Museum, Zoological Park and Buddhist Gompa and Theravada Buddhist Temple Arunachal University, Rono Hills are the places of interest at Itanagar. Itanagar, the capital of Arunachal Pradesh, is situated at a distance of about 300 kms from Guwahati and connected by Pawan Hans helicopter service and luxury bus services.  

Papum Pare History

The area was a part of the administrative unit called Western Section of North-East Frontier Tract till 1914. It was renamed Balipara Frontier Tract in the year 1919. The Balipara Frontier Tract was divided, for administrative convenience, into Se LA Sub-Agency and Subansiri Area in the year 1946. In 1954, this Tract was bifurcated into two administrative units known as the Subansiri Frontier Division and the Kameng Frontier Division. The Subansiri Frontier Division came to be known as the Subansiri District in the year 1965. The Subansiri District was bifurcated into Upper Subansiri District and Lower Subansiri District in the year 1987. The Papum Pare District was carved out of the Lower Subansiri District in the year 1993.

The first administrative center was opened at Kimin in the year 1947, at Doimukh and Sagalee in the year 1949, Naharlogun in the year 1974, Balijan in the year 1976 and at Mengio in the year 1979 and Toru and Laiporiang in the year 1998.The temporary state capital was established in the year 1974 at Naharlogun and subsequently shifted to Itanagar in the year 1978.
 
Till the year 1974, the administration of the territory was carried out from Shillong, which was the erstwhile capital of the state of undivided Assam and later on became the capital of Meghalaya state. It was felt that for the speedy development of the territory, the administrator should come nearer to the people and the search for a site for the capital of Arunachal Pradesh started. The choice for the capital finally ended on Itanagar, which was a small village. Initially the capital was shifted to Naharlogun and the foundation stone was laid by the then President of India, late V.V Giri on 20th April in the year 1974.The government henceforth defined the area of the capital complex.