Thakurbaba

Thakurbaba, earlier called Babai municipality, is a municipality in Bardiya District in the Lumbini Province of Nepal and one of the six municipalities of the district. Bardiya National Park surrounds it on the east, west and north, with Madhuwan and Barbardiya to its south. The municipality covers 104.57 square kilometres and is divided into nine wards. It was established on 19 September 2015 by merging two village development committees, Neulapur and Baganaha, and named Babai; on 10 March 2017 Sivapur and Thakurdwara were added and it was renamed Thakurbaba. The article gives a 2011 census population of 44,361 in its introduction and 45,173 in its demographics section. The Tharu are the largest community at nearly three fifths of residents, and Tharu and Nepali are the leading first languages. Almost all residents are Hindu.