Hariwan

Hariwan, which the English Wikipedia article names Harion and also spells Hariyon, is a town and municipality in Sarlahi District in the Terai of Nepal. It is split into eleven wards with its administrative centre at Harion Bazar, and it sits between Lalbandi municipality to the east, Bagmati municipality to the west, the hills of Sindhuli District to the north and Haripur to the south. The land runs from the Chure range through the Bhabar belt to the outer Terai under a subtropical monsoon climate, with sal forest, tigers, leopards and elephants recorded in the wilds nearby. The East-West Highway passes through it, and the Indushankar sugar mill, opened in 1984 as the first privately owned sugar mill in Nepal, anchors the local economy.