Mainapokhar is a village development committee in

Bardiya District Bardiya District ( ne, बर्दिया जिल्ला), one of the seventy-seven Districts of Nepal, is part of Lumbini Province of Nepal. The district, with Gulariya as its headquarters, covers an area of and according to the 2001 ce ...

Lumbini Province Lumbini Province ( ne, लुम्बिनी प्रदेश, Lumbinī pradēśa) is a province in western Nepal. It borders Gandaki Province and Karnali Province to the north, Sudurpashchim Province to the west, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar o ...

of south-western

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. At the time of the

1991 Nepal census The 1991 Nepal census was a widespread national census conducted by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics. Working with Nepal's Village Development Committees at a district level, they recorded data from all the main towns and villages of each ...

it had a population of 6,841 and had 951 houses in the town. Now it reaches to nearly 20000 in 2016. It is nearly 20 km far from

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. It is near to local

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n Market Balegaun, which can be reached 5 km from Maiapokhar through Ranipur & Padariya.

Religion

There are mostly

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People. They are greater in number than people of other religions (mainly

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Tourist destination

Badhaiya Lake: a tourist destination where people from nearby places come for enjoyment. They can go boating and can have a variety of fish dishes. They can go cycling around the lake.

Lifestyle

Temperature highly affects the lifestyle of Mainapokhar. Due to extreme heat in summer season, people wear light cotton clothes and rarely come out during the day time. While in the winter season, the temperature may drop to 4 °C during which people wear thick woollen clothes.

Educational institutions

*Shree Shardha Higher Secondary School *Bardiya Academy & Polytechnical Research Center, Tilkana *River Queens School, Tilkana *Krishnasar Vidhya Niketan *Suvakamana Academy

Nearby places

20 km * Bansgadi 8 km *

Gulariya Gulariya ( ne, गुलरिया) is a municipality and headquarters of Bardiya District in Lumbini Province of south-western Nepal. It is located in the plains of the Terai region near the southern border with the Bahraich district, Uttar Pra ...

18 km

References

Populated places in Bardiya District {{Bardiya-geo-stub