Siraha (district)

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सिराहा जिल्ला
Siraha District
Location of the Siraha District (dark yellow) in Province No. 2 and in Nepal
Location of the Siraha District (dark yellow) in Province No. 2 and in Nepal
Basic data
Country Nepal
province Province No. 2
Seat Siraha
surface 1188 km²
Residents 637,328 (2011 census)
density 536 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2 NP-P2
Website ddcsiraha.gov.np

Coordinates: 26 ° 45 '  N , 86 ° 19'  E

The district of Siraha ( Nepali सिराहा जिल्ला ) is one of 77 districts in Nepal and has belonged to Province No. 2 since the constitution of 2015 .

history

The district was part of the Sagarmatha administrative zone until 2015 .

geography

Siraha lies in the Terai and extends 30 km from the first Siwalik chain in the north to the Indian border in the south. The two rivers Kamala and Balan delimit the district to the west and east.

Residents

The district had 572,399 inhabitants in 2001; In 2011 there were 637,328. In 2014 Siraha was one of the 15 poorest districts in Nepal with a Human Development Index value of just over 0.4. The literacy rate in the same year was just under 40%.

Administrative division

Cities in Siraha District:

Gaunpalikas (rural communities):

By 2017, the district was divided into the following Village Development Committees (VDCs):

Web links

Commons : Siraha District  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schedule-4 States, and Districts to be included in the concerned States. - Nepal Law Commission. Retrieved December 13, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Central Bureau of Statistics, Census 2011: National Report (pp. 51–52, Population Total and Area in Sq. Km ). ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2013 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. (PDF; 7.8 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cbs.gov.np
  3. ↑ Nepal Human Development Report 2014: National Planning Commission, accessed February 26, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Nepal: Administrative Unit - State 2 Map | UN Nepal Information Platform. Retrieved January 1, 2019 .