Shantipur

Shantipur is a village development committee in Dhanusa District in the Janakpur Zone of south-eastern . At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 4,007 persons living in 674 individual households.
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  • Type: Hamlet
  • Description: human settlement in Nepal
  • Also known as: Shantipur, Dhanusha

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dhalkebar and Bijalpura.

Suburb
is a neighborhood or town in Mithila Municipal Area lying on East-West Highway. Previously it was a separate village development committee in Dhanusa District. is situated 8 km north of Shantipur.

Village
Bijayalpura or is a neighborhood or a Tol in city. It was a village development committee in Mahottari District before 2015. In 2015, when Government of Nepal decided to dissolve the old thousands of VDCs and declare new 753 local level body then this VDC merged with . is situated 9 km northwest of Shantipur.

Shantipur

Latitude
26.85889° or 26° 51′ 32″ north
Longitude
85.93191° or 85° 55′ 55″ east
Elevation
115 metres (377 feet)
Open location code
7MR7VW5J+HQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 8462428086
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
7944062
Wiki­data ID
Q7088415
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Polish—“Shantipur” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: Shantipur
  • Dutch: Shantipur
  • German: Shantipur
  • Irish: Shantipur
  • Maithili: शान्तिपुर, धनुषा
  • Maithili: शान्तिपुर
  • Malay: Shantipur, Janakpur
  • Polish: Shantipur

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Shantipur”. Photo: Laxman Thapa, CC BY-SA 2.0.