Mechinagar
| Mechinagar Nagarpalika मेचीनगर नगरपालिका Mechinagar |
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| Coordinates | 26 ° 38 '47 " N , 88 ° 8' 58" E | ||
| Basic data | |||
| Country | Nepal | ||
| Province No. 1 | |||
| District | Jhapa | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | NP-P1 | ||
| height | 132 m | ||
| surface | 55.7 km² | ||
| Residents | 57,545 (2011) | ||
| density | 1,032.8 Ew. / km² | ||
| founding | 1996 | ||
| Website | www.mechinagarmun.gov.np | ||
| politics | |||
| Chief Executive Officer | Keshav Bhattarai (October 2015) | ||
| 13 wards | |||
Mechinagar is a city in Nepal .
geography
Mechinagar is located in the Jhapa district in the far east of Nepal, near the border with the Indian states of West Bengal and Bihar .
The city was created in 1996 through the amalgamation of the main towns of Kakarbhitta (border crossing to India), Itabhatta and Dhulabari (the city's commercial and supply center) with a large number of villages and small settlements. In terms of nature, Mechinagar belongs to the Terai landscape , the lowest part of the Himalayan state belonging to the Ganges plain . The area is shaped by the border river Mechi . The city of Bhadrapur , 12 kilometers to the south, with the Chandragadhi airfield, is of great importance for the infrastructure and tourist development of the eastern Nepalese border region, from which Mechinagar also benefits. Mechinagar forms the eastern end point of the Mahendra Rajmarg highway . The urban area covers 55.72 km².
Residents
Mechinagar had 57,545 inhabitants (of which 27,588 male) in 13,181 households in the 2011 census.
history
The area on the eastern border of Nepal is located in a densely populated region of the country. However, the eastern region of Nepal has recently been severely affected by floods (for example in September 2008), and numerous places were wiped out during these natural disasters.
One of the most important refugee camps for the minorities expelled from the southern provinces of the neighboring country of Bhutan has been in the vicinity of the city of Kakadvitta since 1991 . The situation of these refugees is assessed by the UNHCR as dramatic, there was a sit-in at the Mechin Bridge in the no man's land between Nepal and India and riots with at least two dead. In the meantime, 20,000 people have been relocated to other Asian countries through an aid program of the UNHCR.
Web links
- US military maps of India, Nepal and Pakistan, sheet NG 45-7 Kishanganj, Washington 1959 (JPG, approx. 7 MB English) Map collection of the University of Texas, Austin - The map shows the Nepal-Indian border area with the river in the middle of the sheet Mehi. The place name Mechinagar was not included at this time.
Individual evidence
- ^ Map of Nepal with administrative division. In: WWF in Nepal. Retrieved September 25, 2010 .
- ↑ A more modern bridge connects the place with the Indian neighboring town Panithanki
- ↑ See the reference article at Wikipedia-UK
- ↑ 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; 2.1 MB) Central Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original on July 31, 2013.
- ↑ Floot waters in ... Nepal. (PDF; 3.0 MB) In: UNOSAT reports. Retrieved September 25, 2010 .
- ↑ Since mid-1991 a campaign of intimidation and displacement began in Bhutan, either with the assertion of missing or undetectable citizenship, or with the compulsion of “voluntary” emigration declarations. A large number of the Nepalese ethnic group - around 100,000 in total - fled to Nepal, where they live in refugee camps.
- ^ Conflicts over refugees from Bhutan in Nepal. (No longer available online.) In: UNHCR-Germany Reports. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 25, 2010 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Over 20,000 refugees resettled from Bhutan. (No longer available online.) In: UNHCR-Germany Reports. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 25, 2010 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
