Tarai
The Terai or Tarai is a lowland region in parts of southern Nepal and northern India that lies to the south of the outer foothills of the Himalayas, the Sivalik Hills and north of the Indo-Gangetic Plain.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: plain
- Description: lowland region in northern India and southern Nepal
- Also known as: “Terai” and “Terai plains”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Meghauli Airport.
Meghauli Airport
Aerodrome
Meghauli Airport is a domestic airport located in Meghauli, Bharatpur serving Chitwan National Park in Bagmati Province in Nepal. The airport is the older of two airports in Bharatpur, the other one being Bharatpur Airport.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Meghauli.
Meghauli
Suburb
Photo: Leofleck, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Meghauli is a small city and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Bharatpur Metropolitan City in Bagmati Province of central Nepal.
Tarai
- Location: Nepal, South Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
27.58° or 27° 34′ 48″ northLongitude
84.23° or 84° 13′ 48″ eastOpen location code
7MV6H6HJ+X2Wikidata ID
Q1133636
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Satellite Map
Discover Tarai from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Tarai” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تيراي”
- Awadhi: “तराई”
- Basque: “Terai lautada”
- Basque: “Terai ordokia”
- Bengali: “তরাই অঞ্চল”
- Bengali: “তরাই”
- Bhojpuri: “तराई”
- Central Kurdish: “تێرای”
- Chinese: “德賴平原”
- Chinese: “德赖平原”
- Chinese: “特莱平原”
- Chinese: “蒂萊”
- Czech: “Teraje”
- Dotyali: “तराई”
- Dutch: “Terai”
- Esperanto: “Terai”
- Esperanto: “Terajo”
- Finnish: “Terai”
- French: “Terai”
- French: “Teraï”
- French: “Téraï”
- French: “Terraï”
- German: “Tarai”
- German: “Terai”
- German: “Teraï”
- German: “Therai”
- Greek: “Τεράι”
- Hebrew: “טאראי”
- Hindi: “तराई क्षेत्र”
- Hindi: “तराई”
- Hindi: “मधेस”
- Hungarian: “Terai”
- Indonesian: “Tarai”
- Indonesian: “Terai”
- Italian: “Terai”
- Japanese: “テライ”
- Kirghiz: “Тераи”
- Korean: “테라이”
- Lithuanian: “Duarai”
- Lithuanian: “Terajai”
- Lithuanian: “Vidiniai terajai”
- Macedonian: “тераи”
- Macedonian: “терај”
- Maithili: “तराई”
- Nepali: “तराई”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tarai”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Terai”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Terai”
- Norwegian: “Tarai”
- Panjabi: “ਤਰਾਈ ਖੇਤਰ”
- Polish: “Teraj”
- Portuguese: “Tarai”
- Portuguese: “Tarrai”
- Portuguese: “Terai”
- Russian: “Тераи”
- Sanskrit: “तराई”
- Slovenian: “Tarai”
- Slovenian: “Teraï”
- Spanish: “Terai”
- Swedish: “Terai”
- Tamil: “தெராய்”
- Ukrainian: “Тераі”
- Ukrainian: “Тераї”
- Western Panjabi: “ترائی”
- “तराई”
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