Belbari

Belbari is a municipality in Morang District of Koshi Province, in the eastern Terai region of Nepal. It was a village development committee until it was upgraded to municipality status in 2014, and it absorbed Kaseni and later, in 2017, Dangihat and Bahuni, so that it now has 11 wards. Its population is given as 81,771 people in 18,945 households, the third largest in Morang district. The land is entirely flat plain, bordered to the north and east by the dense Charkose Jhadi forest, and its name joins the Nepali words bel, the wood-apple tree, and bari, dry land. Dhimal people are regarded as the first inhabitants, and most residents farm paddy, maize, wheat, mustard and vegetables.