Jitpursimara

Jitpursimara, also written Jeetpursimara or Jeetpur Simara, is a sub-metropolitan city in Bara District in the Terai of southern Nepal. It was formed on 10 March 2017 by merging Gadhimai Municipality, Inarwasira, Amlekhganj and parts of Manharwa, Haraiya and Rampur Tokani, and the article calls it the youngest sub-metropolitan city in the country. At the 2011 census the settlements that make it up held a combined 117,094 people in 21,670 households. It borders Hetauda to the north, Birgunj to the south and west and Kalaiya to the east. Simara Airport offers flights to Kathmandu, the Mahendra and Tribhuvan highways link it to the Indian border, and the historic Amlekhganj to Raxaul railway, built under British rule to carry timber, runs through it. About sixty percent of the land is farmed.