Siddharthanagar
Siddharthanagar Nagarpalika सिद्धार्थनगर नगरपालिक Siddharthanagar |
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Coordinates | 27 ° 30 '23 " N , 83 ° 27' 3" E | |
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Country | Nepal | |
Province No. 5 | ||
ISO 3166-2 | NP-P5 | |
District | Rupandehi | |
height | 110 m | |
surface | 36 km² | |
Residents | 63,483 (2011) | |
density | 1,761.9 Ew. / km² | |
founding | 1967 | |
Website | www.siddharthanagar.org.np | |
politics | ||
Chief Executive Officer | Bishnu Gautam (October 2015) | |
13 wards | ||
Universal College of Medical Science
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Siddharthanagar (formerly Bhairahawa ) is a city ( municipality ) in the central Terai of Nepal on the border with India , approx. 256 km west of Kathmandu . The Tinau River flows west of the city.
The city is the administrative seat of the Rupandehi District . The term "Bhairahawa" is still in use.
The city has an airfield about 3 km west of the center with regular connections to Kathmandu. Siddhartanagar is also an important border crossing point and the end point of the Siddhartha Rajmarg highway from Pokhara . The urban area covers 36.03 km².
Residents
At the 2011 census, the city of Siddharthanagar had 63,483 inhabitants (31,673 of them male) in 12,497 households.
climate
The climate in Bhairahawa is a tropical monsoon climate , the hottest month is June.
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Monthly average temperatures and rainfall for Siddharthanagar
Source: www.dhm.gov.np (PDF; 191 kB)
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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.