East Champaran District is functioning from 2 November 1972. The headquarter of district is at Motihari. It is situated at 26o 16’ to 27o 1’ North latitude and 84o 30’ to 85o 16’ East longitudes. Nepal makes its northern boundary, Sitamadhi and Sheohar eastern while Muzaffarpur South and with part of Gopalganj bounds it in western side. The name Champaran owes its origin to Champa-aranya or Champkatanys. Champa or Champaka means Magnolia and aranya means forest. Hence, Champaranya means Forest of Magnolia (CHAMPA) trees. The District comprises an area of 3968.0 sq km with 1344 villages having population of 50,82,868 as per 2011 census. The Administrative set up of the District is decentralized into 6 sub-division, 27 blocks, 27 Circles, 3 Nagar Parishads (Motihari,Raxaul and Dhaka), 6 Nagar Panchayats and 405 Panchayats. The Buddhist Stupta, Kesaria, Ashokan Pillar, Lauriya, Areraj, Gandhi Memorial, Someshwar Shiv Mandir, Areraj, Orwell’s birthplace, Raxaul-Gate way to Nepal.
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My pleasure to be a part of local guide and share some of the experience with you guys.
Thanku SO much from bottom of my heart:purple_heart:
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