Western Tarai
The Western Tarai consists of the western part of the Tarai Mountain Range in Nepal.Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Lumbini and Chitwan National Park.
Lumbini
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Lumbini is the sacred site of the birth of Sakyamuni Buddha. It is in southern Nepal, near the Indian border and inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Chitwan National Park
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Chitwan National Park is the first national park of Nepal. It was established in 1973 as the Royal Chitwan National Park and was granted the status of a World Heritage Site in 1984.
Bharatpur
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Bharatpur is a metropolitan city in south central Nepal. It is the third most populous city of Nepal after Kathmandu and Pokhara with 369,268 inhabitants in 2021.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Nepalgunj and Kapilvastu.
Nepalgunj
Nepalgunj is the district headquarters of Banke District in the Bheri region of Mid Western Nepal. The place has many advantages. As it the central point of the Mid-Western Region, you can reach other places easily by road or air.
Kapilvastu
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Kapilvastu District, often Kapilbastu, is one of the districts of Lumbini Province, Nepal. The district, with Kapilbastu municipality as its district headquarters, covers an area of 1,738 square kilometres and in 2001 had a population of 481,976, which…
Siddharthanagar
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Siddharthanagar, formerly and colloquially still called Bhairahawa, is a municipality and the administrative headquarter of Rupandehi District in Lumbini Province of Nepal, 265 km west of Nepal's capital Kathmandu.
Bardiya National Park
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Bardiya National Park is a protected area in Nepal that was established in 1988 as Royal Bardia National Park. Covering an area of 968 km represents the Tiger Conservation Unit Bardia-Banke that extends over 2,231 km2 of alluvial grasslands and subtropical moist deciduous forests.
Shuklaphanta National Park
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Shuklaphanta National Park lies in the Western Tarai of Nepal's Sudurpaschim Province. It shares its southern border with India's Pilibhit Tiger Reserve in Uttar Pradesh.
Sauraha
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Sauraha is a village of Ratnanagar Municipality in Chitwan District and Chitwan Valley, in Bagmati Province of southern Nepal.
Sunwal
Sunwal City, officially the Sunwal Municipal City, is the urbanized and the most populous city of Parasi District with 72,621 native inhabitants living in 18,689 households in 2021 and 0.11 million people in its urban agglomeration.Western Tarai
- Type: region
- Location: Nepal, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
28.02° or 28° 1′ 12″ northLongitude of center
82.22° or 82° 13′ 12″ eastWikidata ID
Q14928169
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Vietnamese—“Western Tarai” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “পশ্চিম তরাই”
- Chinese: “西德賴”
- Hebrew: “מערב הטאראי”
- Indonesian: “Tarai bagian Barat”
- Slovenian: “Zahodni Taraj”
- Vietnamese: “Tây Tarai”
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