Dodhara Chandani

Dodhara Chandani is a municipality in Kanchanpur District of Sudurpashchim Province, in the far west of Nepal. It was created on 2 December 2014 by merging the former village development committees of Dodhara and Chandani. It is the only part of Nepal that lies across the Mahakali River, which leaves it almost cut off from the rest of the country and surrounded by India on three sides, so it is known locally as the land across the Mahakali. It lies in the flat, fertile inner Terai at an elevation of about 175 to 225 metres and is prone to seasonal flooding from the river. Its ten wards are run from an office in ward six. Renamed Mahakali in 2017, it regained the name Dodhara Chandani in December 2020 after local objection. The 2011 census counted 39,253 people in 7,392 households.