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Araria
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Araria is a city and a municipality that is the headquarters of Araria district in the Indian state of Bihar. Araria is situated in the northern part of Bihar.
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Araria is a city in India that serves as the capital of Araria district. Located in the state of Bihar, the city was established in 1990. It sits at an elevation of 47 meters above sea level and falls within the UTC+05:30 time zone. The local postal code is 854311, and the dialing code is 6453.
The city’s official website is maintained at araria.bih.nic.in. While current weather data indicates a temperature of 25.6 degrees, humidity of 88 percent, and wind speed of 6.32, these are transient measurements. A nearby location named Basantpur in Bihar has a recorded population of 0 and an elevation of 56 meters.
Synthesized by Vinony from 32 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Openweathermap, OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Vinony graph, Geo. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
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Place details
- Locality
- Araria
- Region
- Bihar
- Country
- India
- Population
- 79,021
- Timezone
- Asia/Kolkata
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Araria
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- India Bihar#India
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Bihar, India
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Bihar
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Kosi-Seemanchal
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Araria
- Settlement.established_date
- January 1990
- Settlement.government_type
- Municipal Council
- Settlement.governing_body
- Araria Municipal Council
- Settlement.leader_title1
- District Magistrate
- Settlement.leader_name1
- Shri ANIL KUMAR (IAS)
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
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Araria is a city and a municipality that is the headquarters of Araria district in the Indian state of Bihar. Araria is situated in the northern part of Bihar.
==Etymology== During the British Raj the area was under the administration of a British district collector and municipal commissioner, Alexander John Forbes (1807-1890) of East India Company. Forbes had a bungalow at the same location. Consequently, the area was known as 'residential area' also abbreviated as 'R-area'. Over time the name transformed to 'Araria' and the neighbouring subdivision came to be known as 'Forbesganj'.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Araria” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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