Key facts
- Country
- Nepal
- Region
- Mithila
- Province
- Madhesh
- Admin hq
- Janakpurdham
- Type
- Coordination committee
- Body
- DCC , Dhanusha
- Total
- 1,180.7 km (455.9 sq mi)
- Rank
- auto
- Density
- 734.94/km (1,903.5/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+05:45 ( NPT )
- Main language s
- Maithili (85.8%), Nepali (4.5%)
- Website
- ddcdhanusha .gov .np
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Nepal
- Country
- Nepal
- Located in
- Madhesh Province
- Capital
- Janakpurdham
- Population
- 867747
- Area
- 1180
- Official website
- ddcdhanusha.gov.np
- Households
- 177143
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- topic's main category
- Category:Dhanusha District
- Commons category
- Dhanusha District
- male population
- 429893
- female population
- 437854
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Encyclopedic overview
Dhanusha District (Nepali: धनुषा जिल्ला; [dʱʌnusa] ), a part of Madhesh Province, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. It is situated in the Outer Terai. The district, with Janakpurdham as its district headquarter, covers an area of 1,180.7 km (455.9 sq mi) and has a population (2021) of 838,084.
During the elections in April 2008, the district was divided into seven constituencies. It is also the home district of the first president of Nepal, Dr. Ram Baran Yadav, who contested and won the elections from constituency 5. As a political center of the region, Dhanusha has prominent leaders like Bimalendra Nidhi (Former Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal), Anand Prasad Dhungana, Mahendra Yadav and Ram Krishna Yadav from the Nepali Congress, Anand Yadav (Gangaram Yadav) from the CPN-UML, Matrika Yadav from the CPN-Maoist and Ram Chandra Jha from CPN (Unified Socialist) who have been ministers at various point of time and are still active.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dhanusha District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.