Lahan

Lahan is a municipality in Siraha District in the Madhesh region of Nepal, on the east-west highway about 261 kilometres east of Kathmandu by the B.P. Highway. It has 24 wards, the most of any Nepalese municipality, and lies at about 111 metres above sea level, at roughly 26.717 degrees north and 86.483 degrees east, in the Nepali time zone of UTC plus 5:45. It has grown steadily through urbanization and has become a market hub of the eastern part of Madhesh, drawing shoppers from Udayapur. The nearby town of Thadi, 18 kilometres to the south, lies on one of the agreed routes of trade between India and Nepal, and Lahan connects it to the rest of Nepal; the Government of Nepal has set up a dedicated customs office there and the Government of India a Land Customs Station. Population figures differ by source: the article cites 102,031 in one place and 91,766 from the 2021 census, while the census tables of citypopulation.de list 102,031 for 2021.