Raxaul
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 5,000 residents
- Description: town in East Champaran district, Tirhut division, Bihar, India
- Also known as: “Rasaul”, “Raxaul Bazar”, and “Raxaul subdivision”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Raxaul Junction railway station.
Raxaul Junction railway station
Railway station
Photo: Jan Bockaert, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Raxaul Junction railway station is a main railway station in East Champaran district, Bihar. Its code is RXL. It serves Raxaul city and also as gateway to Nepal as the most important station on the Indo-Nepal border. The station consists of five platforms.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Birgunj.
Birgunj
Photo: Global Photographer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Raxaul
- Categories: human settlement, border city, and locality
- Location: Raxaul, Purba Champaran District, Mithila, Bihar, Plains, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
26.9833° or 26° 59′ northLongitude
84.8523° or 84° 51′ 8″ eastPopulation
5,000Elevation
86 metres (282 feet)United Nations Location Code
IN RXLOpen location code
7MR6XVM2+8WOpenStreetMap ID
node 245754714OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Vietnamese—“Raxaul” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “রক্সৌল”
- Bishnupriya: “রক্সুল বাজার”
- Catalan: “Raxaul”
- Cebuano: “Raxaul”
- Chinese: “拉克奥尔巴扎尔”
- Chinese: “拉克奧爾巴扎爾”
- Chinese: “拉克绍尔”
- Dutch: “Raxaul”
- Fiji Hindi: “Raxaul Bazar”
- German: “Raxaul”
- Hausa: “Raxaul Bazar”
- Hindi: “रक्सौल”
- Indonesian: “Raxaul”
- Irish: “Raxaul”
- Italian: “Raxaul Bazar”
- Japanese: “ラクサウル”
- Japanese: “ラクソール”
- Kashmiri: “راکسال”
- Malay: “Raxaul Bazar”
- Marathi: “रक्सौल बझार”
- Marathi: “रक्सौल”
- Nepali: “रक्सौल”
- Oriya: “ରାଜାଉଲ ବଜାର”
- Persian: “راکسال”
- Persian: “راکسول”
- Polish: “Raxaul”
- Portuguese: “Raxaul Bazar”
- Portuguese: “Raxaul”
- Russian: “Раксаул”
- Santali: “ᱨᱚᱠᱥᱳᱞ ᱵᱟᱡᱟᱨ”
- Santali: “ᱨᱚᱠᱥᱳᱞ”
- Spanish: “Raxaul”
- Swedish: “Raxaul”
- Urdu: “راکسال”
- Urdu: “رکسول”
- Vietnamese: “Raxaul Bazar”
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