Siraha is the headquarters and a municipality of Siraha District in Madhesh Province, Nepal. The source article reports a population of 28,442 at the 2011 census, 82,531 as of 2015 and 96,543 at the 2022 census. The municipality merged further village committees, including Laxminya, Sanhaitha, Lagdigadiyani, Lagdigoth and Hakpara, giving it 22 wards and an area of 94.20 square kilometres. The older Siraha municipality was established in 2053 BS from five village committees, Siraha, Maknaha, Manpur, Basbitta and Thangi. The town lies at about 80 metres altitude, 29 kilometres east-south-east of Janakpur, and the Indian state of Bihar lies to the south. The people are Hindus, Muslims and Buddhists, and the main languages are Nepali, Maithili, Hindi and Urdu. Janakpur Airport is the nearest airport, and a border customs office at Thadi serves trade with India.
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1. Siraha (Wikipedia)
Population statement
The current population of Siraha municipality as of census 2022, is 96,543
Area statement
Its area is 94.20 km2
Part Of: Nepal, Lead sentence
is the headquarters and municipality of Siraha District, a part of Madhesh Province, Nepal
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CIA World Factbook (factbook.json archive)Geography, coastline
0 km (landlocked)
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Geography.Map references.text: Asia
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Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia.
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