Motihari
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| State : | Bihar | ||
| District : | Purba Champaran | ||
| Location : | 26 ° 39 ′ N , 84 ° 55 ′ E | ||
| Height : | 73 m | ||
| Residents : | 126,158 (2011) | ||
| Website : | http://motihari.biharurban.in | ||
Motihari ( Hindi मोतिहारी Motihārī ) is a city with around 125,000 inhabitants in the Indian state of Bihar . Literally translated "Motihari" would mean: "The place that lost its pearls".
It is the administrative seat of the Purba Champaran district . Motihari is about 150 km north of Patna and less than 50 km from the border with Nepal . Anant Kumar , the Indian German-language writer, spent the first years of his life in Motihari.
On June 13, 2012, the Indian government published plans to establish two universities in Bihar, one in Gaya and the other in Motihari.
Motihari (in what was then British India ) is the birthplace of the writer George Orwell (* 1903, † 1950).
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- ↑ http://www.census2011.co.in
- ↑ Islands are places away from land, Literaturcafe.de, 2003
- ↑ Manish Kumar: Bihar to get two Central Universities, announces Kapil Sibal. NDTV, July 14, 2012, accessed July 3, 2014 .