Birgunj
Birgunj is a metropolitan city in Parsa District in Madhes Pradesh 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 136,000 residents
- Description: Metropolitan city in Parsa District, Madhesh Province, Nepal
- Also known as: “Birganj” and “Bi̇̄rganj”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Narayani Stadium.
Narayani Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Narayani Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium located in Birgunj, in Nepal's Madhesh Province. It is among the largest stadiums of Nepal with 18,000 capacity, together with Dasarath Rangasala Stadium.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Raxaul.
Raxaul
Photo: Saddam19, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Raxaul is a sub-divisional town in the East Champaran district of the Indian state of Bihar. It is situated on the India–Nepal border and shares its boundary with the city of Birgunj in Nepal.
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″ northLongitude
84.8764° or 84° 52′ 35″ eastPopulation
136,000Elevation
89 metres (292 feet)United Nations Location Code
NP BRGOpen location code
7MV62V7G+CHOpenStreetMap ID
node 575866576OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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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: “Birganj”
- Finnish: “Birgunj”
- French: “Birganj”
- German: “Birganj”
- Greek: “Μπιργκούντζ”
- Gujarati: “બિર્ગંજ”
- Hebrew: “בירגאנג‘”
- Hebrew: “בירגאנג’”
- Hebrew: “בירגונג‘”
- Hindi: “बिरगंज”
- Hindi: “बीरगंज”
- Hungarian: “Birgandzs”
- Indonesian: “Birgunj”
- Irish: “Birgunj”
- Italian: “Birganj”
- Japanese: “ビールガンジ”
- Japanese: “ビルガンジ”
- Kannada: “ಬಿರ್ಗುಂಜ್”
- Korean: “비르간지”
- Kurdish: “Birganj”
- Latvian: “Birgandža”
- Lithuanian: “Birgandžas”
- Maithili: “बीरगञ्ज महानगरपालिका”
- Maithili: “बीरगञ्ज”
- Malay: “Birganj”
- Marathi: “बिरगुंज”
- Nepali: “Birgañj”
- Nepali: “बीरगञ्ज”
- Nepali: “वीरगंज”
- Nepali: “वीरगञ्ज”
- 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”
- Thai: “บีร์กู”
- Turkish: “Birgunj”
- Ukrainian: “Біргандж”
- Urdu: “برگنج”
- Venetian: “Birganj”
- Vietnamese: “Birgunj”
- Waray (Philippines): “Birgunj”
- “बीरगंज”
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