Tiram is a

town A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city. The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...

and Village Development Committee in Pyuthan, a ''Middle Hills'' district of

Rapti Zone Rapti Zone ( ) was one of the fourteen List of zones of Nepal, zones, located in the Mid-Western Development Region, Nepal, Mid-Western Development Region of Nepal. It was named after the West Rapti River which drains Rolpa District, Rolpa, Pyut ...

, western

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 ...

. Tiram is a hill town surrounded by terraced rice fields with a mostly

Bahun Bahun (), also known as Hill Brahmins, are a Brahmin varna among the Khas of Nepal. They are a sub-caste of the Kanyakubja Brahmin while their origins are from Kannauj and the Himalayan belt of South Asia. According to the 2011 Nepal censu ...

and

Chhetri Chhetri (Kshetri, Kshettri, Kshetry or Chhettri), ( ; IAST: ''Kṣetrī'') historically called Kshettriya or Kshetriya or Khas are Nepali language, Nepali speaking people historically associated with the warrior class and administration, some of ...

population. It is the home of a politically prominent family named Upadhyaya. Tiram is situated on a spur of the

Mahabharat Range The Lower Himalayan Range, also called the Lesser Himalayas and Mahabharat Lekh or Himachal, is one of the four parallel sub-ranges of the Himalayas. It has the Great Himalayas to the north and the Sivalik Hills to the south. It extends from th ...

overlooking Mardi Khola, the largest tributary of the Rapti. A motorable gravel road from Tribhuwannagar,

Dang Deokhuri District Dang District (, ) is a district of Lumbini Province located in the Inner Terai Valleys of Nepal, Inner Terai Rapti Zone of midwestern Nepal. Dang Valley is the first largest valley of Asia and World's second largest valley surrounded by Sival ...

passes through the town and descends toward a junction along Mardi Khola with a more important spur road linking the administrative centers of Pyuthan and Rolpa districts to the main east-west

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 ...

Villages in this VDC

References

Dhurunga

External links

UN map of VDC boundaries, water features and roads in Pyuthan District
{{Pyuthan District Populated places in Pyuthan District