Motihari

Motihari, a commercial centre in northwestern , is famous for Mahatma Gandhi's Champaran Satyagraha movement, as well as the birthplace of George Orwell, the author of dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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  • Type: City with 126,000 residents
  • Description: city in Bihar, India
  • Also known as: “Mothihari”, “Mothīhāri”, “Motihan”, and “Mutgari”
  • Postal code: 845401

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bapudham Motihari railway station and Motihari Court railway station.

Railway station
is a major railway station in Motihari through which 2 lines pass one towards and other towards , it lies in the headquarter city of of .

Railway station
, is a halt railway station on Muzaffarpur–Gorakhpur main line under the Samastipur railway division of East Central Railway zone.

Motihari

Latitude
26.6507° or 26° 39′ 3″ north
Longitude
84.9115° or 84° 54′ 41″ east
Population
126,000
Elevation
74 metres (243 feet)
Open location code
7MR6MW26+7H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 888239278
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1262710
Wiki­data ID
Q1774606
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Angika to Yoruba—“Motihari” goes by many names.
  • Angika: “मोतिहारी”
  • Arabic: “موتيهاري”
  • Armenian: “Մոթիհարի”
  • Asturian: “Motihari”
  • Azerbaijani: “Motihari”
  • Belarusian: “Матыгары”
  • Belarusian: “Матыхарі”
  • Bengali: “মোতিহারী”
  • Bhojpuri: “मोतिहारी”
  • Bishnupriya: “মতহারি”
  • Bulgarian: “Мотихари”
  • Catalan: “Motihari”
  • Cebuano: “Motīhāri”
  • Chinese: “莫蒂哈里”
  • Danish: “Motihari”
  • Dutch: “Motihari”
  • Esperanto: “Motihari”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Motihari”
  • French: “Motihari”
  • Galician: “Motihari”
  • Georgian: “მოტიჰარი”
  • German: “Motihari”
  • Greek: “Μοτιχάρι”
  • Gujarati: “મોતિહારી”
  • Hausa: “Motihari”
  • Hausa: “Mutgari”
  • Hebrew: “מוטיהרי”
  • Hindi: “मोतिहारी”
  • Hindi: “मोतीहारी”
  • Hungarian: “Motihari”
  • Igbo: “Motihari”
  • Irish: “Motihari”
  • Italian: “Motihari”
  • Japanese: “モーティーハーリー”
  • Japanese: “モティハリ”
  • Kashmiri: “موتیہاری”
  • Macedonian: “Мотихари”
  • Magahi: “मोतिहारी”
  • Malagasy: “Motihari”
  • Malay: “Motihari”
  • Marathi: “मोतीहारी”
  • Nepali: “मोतिहारी”
  • Newari: “मोतिहरि”
  • Newari: “मोतिहार”
  • Newari: “मोतिहारी”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Motihari”
  • Norwegian: “Motihari”
  • Oriya: “ମୋତିହାରି”
  • Ossetian: “Мотихари”
  • Pampanga: “Motihari”
  • Persian: “موتهاری”
  • Polish: “Motihari”
  • Portuguese: “Motihari”
  • Romanian: “Motihari”
  • Russian: “Мотихари”
  • Sanskrit: “मोतिहारी”
  • Santali: “ᱢᱚᱛᱤᱦᱟᱨᱤ”
  • Slovenian: “Motihari”
  • Spanish: “Motihari”
  • Swedish: “Motihari”
  • Tajik: “Мутиҳорӣ”
  • Tamil: “மோதிஹரி”
  • Tamil: “மோதிஹாரி”
  • Telugu: “మోతీహారి”
  • Turkish: “Motihari”
  • Ukrainian: “Мотіхарі”
  • Urdu: “موتیہاری”
  • Vietnamese: “Motihari”
  • Yoruba: “Motihari”
  • “मोतिहारी”

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