Brahmapuri (
Nepali: ब्रह्मपुरी) is a
rural municipality
A rural municipality is a classification of municipality, a type of local government, found in several countries.
These include:
* Rural municipality (Canada), Rural municipalities in Canada, a Lists of municipalities in Canada, type of municipa ...
in
Sarlahi District
Sarlahi ( ; Maithili: सर्लाही), a part of Madhesh Province, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. According to new laws, a combination of more than two or four villages makes a municipality, which covers an area of and ...
, a part of
Madhesh Province
Madhesh Province () is a Provinces of Nepal, province of Nepal in the Terai region with an area of covering about 6.5% of the country's total area. It has a population of 6,126,288 as per the 2021 Nepal census, making it Nepal's most densely po ...
in the eastern
Terai
The Terai or Tarai is a lowland region in parts of southern Nepal and northern India that lies to the south of the outer foothills of the Himalayas, the Sivalik Hills and north of the Indo-Gangetic Plain.
This lowland belt is characterised by ...
region of
Nepal
Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...
. It was formed in 2016, occupying current 7 sections (wards) from former
VDCs: Brahmapuri,
Bhelhi,
Tribhuwananagar and
Nokailwa. It occupies an area of 40.56 km
2 with a total population of 39,169.
It is bounded by
Parsa rural municipality and
Haripurwa municipality in the east,
Chandranagar rural municipality and
Ishworpur municipality in the north,
Malangwa and
Kabilasi municipalities in the west, and
Sitamarhi district of the Indian state of Bihar in the south. There are a total of 7 wards in this rural municipality. The main occupation is agriculture and farming.
References
Populated places in Sarlahi District
Rural municipalities of Nepal established in 2017
Rural municipalities in Madhesh Province
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