Peren District is a district of Nagaland, India. With headquarters the town of Peren, the district was formed by the partition of Kohima District in 2003.
History
The Peren district was originally a sub-division of the Kohima district. It was declared a separate district on 24 October 2003.[1]
Administration
Peren district is divided into 3 subdivisions and 7 blocks.
According to the 2011 official census, Christianity is major religion in Peren District with 86.145 Christians (90.47%), 4.076 Hindus (4.28%), 2.493 Animists (2.62%), 1.850 Muslims (1.94%), 459 Buddhists (0.48%), 15 Sikhs (0.02%), 10 Jains (0.01%) and 171 did not answer (0.18%).[4]