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List of governors of Nagaland

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Governor of Nagaland
Incumbent La. Ganesan since 20 February 2023
Style	His Excellency
Residence	Raj Bhavan; Kohima
Appointer	President of India
Term length	Five years
Inaugural holder	Vishnu Sahay, ICS (Retd.)
Formation	1 December 1963; 60 years ago (1963-12-01)
Website	rajbhavan.nagaland.gov.in

The state of Nagaland is on the border with Burma.

The governor of Nagaland is the head of stateofNagaland and the representative of the president of India in the state.

Powers and functions[edit]

The governor enjoys many different types of powers:

Executive powers related to administration, appointments and removals,
Legislative powers related to lawmaking and the state legislature, that is Vidhan Sabha or Vidhan Parishad, and
Discretionary powers to be carried out according to the discretion of the governor.

Key
‡	indicates that this was an additional charge

#	Name	Took office	Left office
1	Vishnu Sahay	1 December 1963	16 April 1968
2	Braj Kumar Nehru	17 April 1968	18 September 1973
3	Lallan Prasad Singh	19 September 1973	9 August 1981
4	S. M. H. Burney	10 August 1981	12 June 1984
5	K. V. Krishna Rao	13 June 1984	19 July 1989
6	Gopal Singh	20 July 1989	3 May 1990
7	M. M. Thomas	9 May 1990	12 April 1992
8	Loknath Mishra	13 April 1992	1 October 1993
9	V. K. Nayar	2 October 1993	4 August 1994
10	Oudh Narayan Shrivastava	5 August 1994	11 November 1996
11	Om Prakash Sharma	12 November 1996	27 January 2002
12	Shyamal Datta	28 January 2002	2 February 2007
13	K. Sankaranarayanan	3 February 2007	28 July 2009
14	Gurbachan Jagat	28 July 2009	14 Oct 2009
15	Nikhil Kumar	15 Oct 2009	20 March 2013
16	Ashwani Kumar	21 March 2013	27 June 2014
-	Krishan Kant Paul ‡^[1]	2 July 2014	19 July 2014
17	Padmanabha Acharya^[2]	19 July 2014	31 July 2019
18	R. N. Ravi	1 August 2019	17 September 2021
-	Jagdish Mukhi ‡	17 September 2021	19 February 2023
19	La. Ganesan	20 February 2023	Incumbent

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Rajasthan	Kalraj Mishra
Sikkim	Lakshman Acharya
Tamil Nadu	R. N. Ravi
Telangana	C. P. Radhakrishnan (additional charge)
Tripura	N. Indrasena Reddy
Uttar Pradesh	Anandiben Patel
Uttarakhand	Gurmit Singh
West Bengal	C. V. Ananda Bose

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Capital: Kohima
State symbols	Emblem: Emblem of Nagaland Animal: Mithun Bird: Blyth's tragopan Flower: Rhododendron Tree: Alder Fish: Chocolate mahseer	Emblem of Nagaland
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Divisions	Nagaland
Districts	Dimapur Kiphire Kohima Longleng Mokokchung Mon Noklak Peren Phek Shamator Tuensang Wokha Zunheboto
Main cities and towns	Dimapur Kohima Tuensang Mokokchung Wokha Mon Chumukedima Kiphire Kuda Kohima Village Phek Pfutsero