Chaukhara is a

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and

nagar panchayat A nagar panchayat () or town panchayat or Notified Area Council (NAC) in India is a settlement in transition from rural to urban and therefore a form of an urban political unit comparable to a municipality. An urban centre with more than 12,00 ...

Domariaganj Domariaganj is a town and tehsil of Siddharthnagar district in eastern Uttar Pradesh. It is located on the bank of the river Rapti, 30 km south of the Nepal border. Domariaganj is also the name of one of the 80 Lok Sabha (parliamentary ...

tehsil A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluk, or taluka () is a local unit of administrative division in India and Pakistan. It is a subdistrict of the area within a Zila (country subdivision), district including the designated populated place that ser ...

Siddharthnagar district Siddharthnagar district is one of the 75 Districts of Uttar Pradesh, districts of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Siddharthnagar is the district headquarters. Siddharthnagar district is a part of Basti division. It was under the ancient Kosal ...

in the

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Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh ( ; UP) is a States and union territories of India, state in North India, northern India. With over 241 million inhabitants, it is the List of states and union territories of India by population, most populated state in In ...

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Geography

Chaukhara is located at , with an average elevation of 110 meters (360 feet). Situated in the swampy region of northeastern Uttar Pradesh, Chaukhara lies ten miles from the

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 ...

border. It is 5 kilometers from the

headquarters at

, 60 kilometers from the

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headquarters at Siddharth Nagar, and 30 kilometers from the

border. Nestled in the plains between the Budhi Rapti River to the north and the Rapti River to the south, Chaukhara enjoys a moderate climate with average rainfall of approximately 50 inches. However, its location in the plains between two rivers makes it susceptible to recurrent flooding. The total cultivated area in the village is 711.6 acres, with approximately one-third dedicated to single-crop cultivation.

References

{{Reflist Villages in Siddharthnagar district