Birgunj
Birgunj is a metropolitan city in Parsa District in Madhesh Province in southern Nepal. It lies 135 km south of the capital Kathmandu, attached in the north to Raxaul on the border of the Indian state of Bihar.- Type: City with 136,000 residents
- Description: Metropolitan city in Parsa District, Madhesh Province, Nepal
- Also known as: “Birganj”, “Bi̇̄rganj”, “בירגונג‘”, and “ビルガンジ”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Narayani Stadium.
Narayani Stadium
Stadium
Narayani Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium located in Birgunj, in Nepal's Madhesh Province.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Raxaul.
Birgunj
- Categories: big city, border city, and locality
- Location: Birgunj, Parsa, Madhesh Province, Eastern Tarai, Nepal, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
27.0135° or 27° 0′ 49″ north
Longitude
84.8764° or 84° 52′ 35″ east
Population
136,000
Elevation
89 metres (292 feet)
UN/LOCODE
NP BRG
Open location code
7MV62V7G+CH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Birgunj” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “برغنج”
- Arabic: “بيرغونج”
- Awadhi: “वीरगञ्ज”
- Bengali: “বিরগঞ্জ”
- Bengali: “বীরগঞ্জ, নেপাল”
- Bengali: “বীরগঞ্জ”
- Bhojpuri: “बीरगंज”
- Bulgarian: “Биргандж”
- Catalan: “Birganj”
- Cebuano: “Bīrganj”
- Chinese: “比尔甘杰”
- Chinese: “比爾根傑”
- Chinese: “比爾甘傑”
- Danish: “Birganj”
- Dotyali: “वीरगञ्ज उपमहानगरपालिका”
- Dutch: “Birganj”
- Dutch: “Birgunj”
- Esperanto: “Birganĝ”
- Esperanto: “Birganj”
- Finnish: “Birgunj”
- French: “Birganj”
- German: “Birganj”
- Greek: “Μπιργκούντζ”
- Gujarati: “બિર્ગંજ”
- Hebrew: “בירגאנג‘”
- Hebrew: “בירגאנג’”
- Hindi: “बिरगंज”
- Hindi: “बीरगंज”
- Hungarian: “Birgandzs”
- Indonesian: “Birgunj”
- Irish: “Birgunj”
- Italian: “Birganj”
- Japanese: “ビールガンジ”
- Kannada: “ಬಿರ್ಗುಂಜ್”
- Korean: “비르간지”
- Kurdish: “Birganj”
- Latvian: “Birgandža”
- Lithuanian: “Birgandžas”
- Maithili: “बीरगञ्ज महानगरपालिका”
- Maithili: “बीरगञ्ज”
- Malay: “Birganj”
- Marathi: “बिरगुंज”
- Nepali: “Birgañj”
- Nepali: “वीरगंज”
- Nepali: “वीरगन्ज महानगरपालिका”
- Newari: “वीरगञ्ज”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Birganj”
- Norwegian: “Birganj”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Birganj”
- Persian: “برگنج”
- Polish: “Birgańdź”
- Polish: “Birgunj”
- Portuguese: “Birganj”
- Russian: “Биргандж”
- Sinhala: “බර්ගන්ජ්”
- Spanish: “Birgunj”
- Swedish: “Birgunj”
- Tamil: “பீர்க்கஞ்”
- Tamil: “வீரகஞ்ச்”
- Telugu: “బీర్ గంజ్”
- Telugu: “బీర్గంజ్”
- Thai: “บีร์กู”
- Turkish: “Birgunj”
- Ukrainian: “Біргандж”
- Urdu: “برگنج”
- Venetian: “Birganj”
- Vietnamese: “Birgunj”
- Waray (Philippines): “Birgunj”
- “बीरगंज”
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