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The name Chitwan is a composite of the Sanskrit words चित्त, transliterated "citta" meaning heart, and वन, transliterated "vana" meaning jungle or forest. [5] [6] Thus, the meaning of Chitwan is Heart of the Jungle. Chitwan was a dense forest ruled by the Tharu God-King Chitrasen Baba, thought to an incarnation of Vishnu.
Upardanggadhi. Chitwan Valley was an independent kingdom before Nepal was unified in the late 18th century, its historic capital having been Upardanggadhi.Until the beginning of the 20th century, the main part of the Chitwan Valley was under forest and sparsely populated by ethnic groups, such as the Tharu, Danuwar, Darai and Majhi people who had acquired some resistance against the infectious ...
The Chitwan Valley lies south-west of the Kathmandu valley and it has 600 square miles in area. After the re-structuring of the country in 2015, two districts of this valley, namely, Makwanpur and Chitwan lies in Bagmati Province and Nawalpur district lies in Gandaki Province. It is 150 km (93 mi) long and roughly 30–48 km (19–30 mi) wide.
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. [ 1 ] It covers an area of 952.63 km 2 (367.81 sq mi) in the subtropical Inner Terai lowlands of south-central Nepal in Nawalpur , Chitwan , Makwanpur and Parsa ...
Khairahani is a municipality in Chitwan District in Bagmati Province of southern Nepal. The municipality was established on 8 May 2014 by merging the existing Khairahani, Kumroj and Chainpur VDCs. [1] [2] At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 13,629 people living in 2262 households. [3]
There are seven provinces and 77 districts in Nepal. After the state's reconstruction of administrative divisions, Nawalparasi District and Rukum District were divided into Parasi District and Nawalpur District , and Eastern Rukum District and Western Rukum District , respectively,yes.
Bagmati Province has an area of 20,300 km 2 which is about 13.79% of the total area of Nepal. The elevation of the province ranges from 141 m at Golaghat in Chitwan District to 7,422m at Ganesh Himal. The province has an altitude low enough to support deciduous, coniferous, and alpine forests and woodlands. 27.29% land is covered by forest. The ...
Saradanagar(Nepali: शारदानगर) is a town in Bharatpur Metropolitan City in Chitwan District in the Bagmati Province of Nepal.The formerly Village Development Committee was merged to form new municipality, Chitrawan Municipality on 18 May 2014 by merging formerly Gunjanagar and Saradanagar village development committee, [1] [2] which was later merged under Bharatpur Metropolitan.