Banke District
Banke District (Nepali: बाँके जिल्ला, romanized: Bām̐kē jillā, a part of Lumbini Province, is one of the 77 districts of Nepal. The district, located in midwestern Nepal with Nepalganj as its district headquarters, covers an area of 2,337 km2 and had a population of 385,840 in 2001 and 491,313 in 2011.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 603,000 residents
- Description: district of Nepal
- Also known as: “Banke” and “Bānke”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nepalgunj and Saigaun.
Nepalgunj
Nepalgunj is the district headquarters of Banke District in the Bheri region of Mid Western Nepal. The place has many advantages. As it the central point of the Mid-Western Region, you can reach other places easily by road or air.
Saigaun
Hamlet
Saigaun is a village development committee in Banke District in Lumbini Province of south-western Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 4,745 and had 857 houses in the town. Saigaun is situated 4 km west of Banke District.
Manikapur
Hamlet
Manikapur is a town in Banke District in the Bheri Zone of south-western Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 5,810 and had 1138 houses in the town. Now, it is a part of Nepalgunj sub-metropolitan city. Manikapur is situated 9 km northeast of Banke District.
Banke District
- Category: district of Nepal
- Location: Nepalganj, Banke, Lumbini Province, Nepal, South Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Banke District” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة بانكي”
- Awadhi: “बाँके जिला”
- Bengali: “বাঁকে জেলা”
- Bhojpuri: “बांके जिला”
- Bishnupriya: “বাঁকে”
- Catalan: “districte de Banke”
- Chinese: “Banke Koān”
- Chinese: “班克县”
- Chinese: “班克縣”
- Danish: “Banke District”
- Danish: “Banke distrikt”
- Dotyali: “बाँके जिल्ला”
- Dutch: “Banke”
- Fiji Hindi: “Banke jila”
- Fiji Hindi: “Banke”
- Finnish: “Banken piirikunta”
- French: “district de Banke”
- French: “District de Banke”
- German: “Banke”
- Gujarati: “બાંકે જિલ્લો, નેપાળ”
- Gujarati: “બાંકે જિલ્લો”
- Hindi: “बांके जिला”
- Italian: “Distretto di Banke”
- Japanese: “バンケ郡”
- Maithili: “बाँके जिला”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Banke Koān”
- Nepali: “बाँके जिल्ला”
- Nepali: “बाँके”
- Newari: “बाँके जिल्ला”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Banke distrikt”
- Norwegian: “Banke”
- Polish: “Banke”
- Polish: “Dystrykt Banke”
- Portuguese: “Banke”
- Portuguese: “Distrito de Banke”
- Russian: “Банке”
- Sanskrit: “बाँकेमण्डलम्”
- Slovenian: “Banke”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Banke”
- Spanish: “Banke”
- Urdu: “بانکے ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Banke”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع بانکے”
- “बाँके जिला”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Babugaun and Balegaun.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Nepalganj Railway Station and Bāgeshwari̇̄ Temple.
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