Mahagadhimai
| Mahagadhimai Nagarpalika महागढीमाई नगरपालिका Mahagadhimai |
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| Coordinates | 26 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ N , 85 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ E | ||
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| Country | Nepal | ||
| Province No. 2 | |||
| District | Bara | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | NP-P2 | ||
| height | 88 m | ||
| surface | 40.3 km² | ||
| Residents | 38,751 (2011) | ||
| density | 961.6 Ew. / km² | ||
| founding | 2nd December 2014 | ||
| 9 wards | |||
.JPG) Gadhimai Temple in Bariyarpur
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Mahagadhimai ( Nepali महागढीमाई ) is a city in the central Terai of Nepal in the Bara district .
The city was created at the end of 2014 by amalgamating the Village Development Committees (VDCs) Babuain , Bariyarpur , Dahiyar , Ganj Bhawanipur , Patharhati and Telkuwa .
The Gadhimai Festival is held every five years in the Gadhimai Temple in Bariyarpur . This festival includes the largest offering to animals (rats, buffalo, pigs, goats, chickens, pigeons) worldwide to appease the goddess Gadhimai .
The urban area of Mahagadhimai covers 40.3 km².
Residents
At the 2011 census, the VDCs that made up the city of Mahagadhimai had 38,751 inhabitants (19,867 of them male) in 5812 households.
Web links
Commons : Mahagadhimai - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ^ Govt creates 61 new municipalities . Nepal Mountain News. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 26, 2015.
- ↑ Municipal Association of Nepal (MuAN) ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ National Population and Housing Census 2011 (PDF) Central Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original on July 31, 2013.
