Buddhabhumi

Buddhabhumi is a municipality in Kapilvastu District in the Lumbini Province of southern Nepal, about 308 kilometres west of Kathmandu and 47 kilometres west of Butwal. It was one of 61 new municipalities announced by the Nepal government on 2 December 2014, first created by merging the village development committees of Jayanagar, Mahendrakot and Dubiya under the name Buddhawatika. In March 2017 four more committees, Bhrikuti, Mahuba, Manpur and Dhankauli, were added and the municipality was renamed Buddhabhumi, a name meaning the land of Gautam Buddha. The highway through it links western Nepal with Kathmandu and the Indian border at Krishnanagar. Hindus are the majority, with Buddhist and Muslim communities living alongside them, and the municipality has one bachelor level campus.