Kuda — Kuda Map Poster

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Kuda Map Poster

Kuda sits in the flatter western edge of Nagaland, close to Dimapur, where the state meets the plains of the Brahmaputra basin. On a map this is one of the few parts of Nagaland without steep contours. Roads run in fairly straight lines, plots are laid out in loose rectangles, and the pattern is more like a lowland settlement than the ridge-top villages further east.

From above, the town reads as a scatter of lanes feeding a few main roads, with open fields and patches of trees filling the gaps. To the east and south the land begins to rise, and the street pattern gives way to the curving lines of hill tracks. A Kuda map poster captures that change in terrain, with flat ground on one side of the sheet and the start of the hills on the other.

Being close to Dimapur shapes the place. Dimapur is Nagaland's main commercial centre and has the state's railway station and airport, so much of the region's traffic passes through this stretch of plain. Kuda itself is small and residential in character, and its map is quiet and uncluttered, with a few thin lines rather than a dense urban mesh.