Dharan
Dharan is a sub-metropolitan city in Sunsari District of Koshi Province, in eastern Nepal. It was established as the fourth municipality in the Kingdom of Nepal in 1958.
- Type: City with 173,000 residents
- Description: city in Sunsari District, Nepal
- Also known as: “Dharan Bazar” and “Dharan Upmahanagarpalika”
Dharan
- Categories: big city, sub-metropolitan municipality of Nepal, and locality
- Location: Dharan, Sunsari, Koshi Province, Eastern Tarai, Nepal, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
26.8129° or 26° 48′ 46″ north
Longitude
87.284° or 87° 17′ 2″ east
Population
173,000
Elevation
375 metres (1,230 feet)
Open location code
7MR9R77M+5H
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Dharan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “داران”
- Awadhi: “धरान”
- Basque: “Dharan”
- Bengali: “ধরান”
- Bhojpuri: “धरान”
- Catalan: “Dharan”
- Cebuano: “Dharān Bāzār”
- Chinese: “特兰”
- Chinese: “達藍”
- Danish: “Dharan”
- Dotyali: “धरान”
- Dutch: “Dharan”
- Esperanto: “Dharan”
- Finnish: “Dharan”
- French: “Dharan”
- German: “Dharan”
- Hebrew: “דהאראן”
- Hindi: “धरान”
- Irish: “Dharan”
- Italian: “Dharan”
- Japanese: “ダーラン”
- Korean: “다란”
- Kurdish: “Dharan”
- Lithuanian: “Dharanas”
- Maithili: “धरान उपमहानगरपालिका”
- Maithili: “धरान”
- Malay: “Dharan, Nepal”
- Malay: “Dharan”
- Nepali: “Dharān”
- Nepali: “धरान उपमहानगरपालिका”
- Nepali: “धरान”
- Newari: “धरान”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dharan”
- Norwegian: “Dharan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Dharan”
- Persian: “داران”
- Persian: “دران”
- Polish: “Dharan”
- Russian: “Дхаран”
- Santali: “ᱫᱷᱚᱨᱟᱱ”
- Slovenian: “Dharan”
- Spanish: “Dharan”
- Swedish: “Dharan”
- Urdu: “دھارن”
- Urdu: “دھران”
- Venetian: “Dharan”
- “धरान”
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