Dooars or Duars

The Dooars or Duars are the floodplains and foothills of the eastern Himalayas in North-East India around Bhutan. Though Dooars is not a political state today, traditionally it constituted the plains of Darjeeling District, whole of Jalpaiguri District and upper region of Cooch Behar District in West Bengal and the districts of Dhubri, Kokrajhar, Barpeta, Goalpara and Bongaigaon in the Indian state of Assam.

Often said to be derived from the word 'doors' (doors to Bhutan), as the region forms a natural gateway to the Bhutan and the hill stations of North Bengal and Sikkim. Duar is also means door in Nepali Bhojpuri and Bengali languages.

Map indicating Dooars region