Salyan or Salyan Khalanga is the headquarters of

Salyan District Salyan may refer to: Places Azerbaijan * Salyan District (Azerbaijan), a district of Azerbaijan *Salyan, Azerbaijan, capital of the Salyan rayon (district) * Shirvan-Salyan economic region, an economic region of Azerbaijan Nepal *Salyan Distri ...

in the mid-west 'hills' 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 is located at 28°22'31N 82°9'42E at 1,530 metres elevation (5,020 feet).Salyan, Nepal Page - Falling Rain Genomics
/ref> Rapti Highway from

Tulsipur Tulsipur is a town and tehsil in the Balrampur district, Uttar Pradesh, Balrampur district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, A very famous sacred place Devi Patan Temple lies in the city, which is a sacred and pilgrimage site for Hindus, m ...

follows the Sarda River 3 km. (1.9 miles) east of the town at 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) elevation. As of 2010, it was being extended north to Musikot,

Rukum District Rukum District () was a "hills" and "mountains" district some west of Kathmandu partially belonging to Lumbini Province and partially to Karnali Province before split into two districts Western Rukum and Eastern Rukum after the state's reco ...

. A spur road from this highway climbs up to Salyan Khalanga and the town has bus connections to Tulsipur,

Ghorahi ''Ghorahi'' (Nepali: घोराही उपमहानगरपालिका) is the largest sub-metropolitan city by area and population of Lumbini Province. The city (formerly Tribhuvannagar) lies in Lumbini Province in the Mid-Weste ...

and

Mahendra Highway Mahendra Highway or NH01 (previously: H01) (), also called East-West Highway (), runs across the Terai geographical region of Nepal, from Mechinagar in the east to Bhim Datta in the west, cutting across the entire width of the country. It is th ...

. It is also the birthplace of

Chandra Bahadur Dangi Chandra Bahadur Dangi (30 November 1939 – 3 September 2015) (, , or ) was a Nepali man who was the shortest man in recorded history, measuring . He broke the record previously set by Gul Mohammed (1957–1997), whose height was . Dangi came ...

, who was known for being the shortest male ever.

References

Populated places in Salyan District, Nepal Municipalities in Karnali Province {{SalyanNP-geo-stub