Mithila

Mithila is a municipality in Dhanusha District, in Madhesh Province in the south-east of Nepal. It was established on 2 December 2014 by the government merging three existing village development committees, Begadawar, Nakatajhijh and Dhalkebar, into a single urban local unit. At the 2011 census, counting the population of the three merged committees together, the municipality had 31,575 residents. It was one of the municipalities added in the 2014 round of local government reorganisation, after which Nepal had 191 municipalities. The municipality shares its name with the wider cultural region of Mithila but is a separate local administrative unit.