GATE 2027 in Dimapur-Kohima: Nagaland's Exam City, Zone and Institutes

Under Nagaland, the official exam-city list has exactly one entry: "Dimapur-Kohima". You cannot pick Dimapur alone or Kohima alone. When you pick it, you are telling GATE you can sit in either town, and the centre you get may be in either.

That matters more here than for most joint names, because the two towns are not next door. The Kohima district administration puts Dimapur's railway station and airport roughly 74 km from Kohima. A Kohima student can be sent down to Dimapur, and a Dimapur student can be sent up the hill to Kohima. The list gives no addresses; the admit card will.

The basic rules for the form:

• Six cities, all from one zone.
• The list is tentative, and GATE may add or drop a city.
• GATE may allot a city outside your six if it must.
• GATE 2027 is held only in India.

Since Nagaland gives you only one name, the other five must come from outside the state. The IIT Guwahati zone is large, which helps. It holds all five Assam cities, Imphal and Thoubal in Manipur, Shillong, Aizawl, Agartala, Naharlagun and Papum pare in Arunachal, Gangtok, five West Bengal cities, the four Bihar cities, and Dhanbad and Bokaro Steel City in Jharkhand.

One order to start from:

1. Dimapur-Kohima
2. Jorhat
3. Guwahati
4. Imphal
5. Dibrugarh
6. Silchar

Change the tail to fit where you have family or a friend's hostel room. Shillong, Tezpur and Thoubal are in the same zone and work just as well. The Dimapur district page says the district borders Assam's Karbi Anglong and Golaghat districts. Neither is an exam-city name, so the nearest Assam names on the list are the five above.

Two-paper candidates (DA with CS) should know that the two-paper rules keep the second paper in the same city as the first, though the centre may differ.

Many students from Nagaland are at college elsewhere in February. The same-zone rule is where they get caught.

On the list	Zone	With Dimapur-Kohima?
Jorhat, Guwahati, Dibrugarh, Tezpur, Silchar	IIT Guwahati	Yes
Imphal, Thoubal, Shillong, Aizawl, Agartala, Naharlagun, Papum pare, Gangtok	IIT Guwahati	Yes
Siliguri, Kalyani, Durgapur, Asansol, Burdwan	IIT Guwahati	Yes
Patna, Bhagalpur, Muzaffarpur, Purnea, Dhanbad, Bokaro Steel City	IIT Guwahati	Yes
Kolkata, Howrah, Bhubaneswar, Ranchi	IIT Kharagpur	No
New Delhi	IIT Delhi	No
Bengaluru North, Bengaluru South	IISc	No

So a student in Kolkata cannot keep Dimapur-Kohima as a fall-back. You either write near college with an IIT Kharagpur list (see the Kolkata page), or come home and use the list above. Kalyani is the odd one: it is close to Kolkata but in the IIT Guwahati zone, so it can sit on a Nagaland form. The same choice applies in Delhi or Bengaluru; the Delhi and Bengaluru pages cover those lists.

The Dimapur district page says National Highway 29 links Dimapur to Kohima. The Kohima travel page names Dimapur as the nearest airport and railway station for Kohima, and says Nagaland State Transport buses run between the two towns, alongside private buses and taxis.

If you live in Chümoukedima, the district's own page says buses, taxis and three-wheelers ply often to Dimapur, and Dimapur railway station is about 12 km to its north.

What this means in practice: once the allotment arrives on 4 January 2027 and the admit card gives the address, plan around the town you have been given. If it is the other town, go the evening before and see the centre. A hill road early on a winter morning is not where you want to lose time. Carry the printed admit card, the original photo ID you entered on your form, and whatever else the card asks for.

For exam-city questions, write to IIT Guwahati, the zone's coordinating institute: Guwahati 781 039, gate@iitg.ac.in, 0361-2582751. Use your registered email and include your enrolment ID.

For the portal or the papers, the organising institute is IIT Madras: helpdesk@gate.iitm.ac.in, 044-22578200.

Step	Date
Scrutiny defects fixed without fee	closes 30 November 2026
Data correction window (with fee)	TBA
City allotment notification	4 January 2027
Admit card	TBA
Exams	6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21 February 2027
Results	19 March 2027

The dates page says every date may change. Registration has closed, so any change to your cities rests on the correction window.

NIT Nagaland is the GATE institute in the state. Its own site places it at Chumukedima, near Dimapur, on a hilly campus. The GATEiit page explains its GATE routes for DA and CS candidates.

Further out in the same region, IIT Guwahati, IIIT Guwahati, NIT Manipur, NIT Silchar and NIT Meghalaya also have pages. The rest are on /institutes.

Your exam city has no bearing on where you can apply. Writing at Dimapur-Kohima does nothing for an NIT Nagaland application, and writing elsewhere does not hurt it.

GATEiit is free and runs online. It has no office or classroom in Nagaland or anywhere else.

Start on your paper's page: GATE DA for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, or GATE CSE for Computer Science and Information Technology. Each has the syllabus and the WhatsApp group link.

Use /pyq for past papers and /practice for topic sets. The GATE DA 2027 guide and the GATE CSE 2027 guide give a plan, and /guides has more. Every exam day is a Saturday or Sunday, so time your full mocks for weekend mornings. The GATE 2027 page and the exam-city overview cover the rest, and the Guwahati and Imphal pages show the same zone from next door.