Key facts
- Country
- Nepal
- Named after
- Koshi River
- Districts
- List Sunsari District Morang District Dhankuta District Tehrathum District Bhojpur District Sankhuwasabha District
- Total
- 9,669 km (3,733 sq mi)
- Density
- 241.5/km (625.5/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+5:45 ( Nepal Time )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Kosi River
- Country
- Nepal
- Located in
- Eastern Development Region
- Capital
- Dharan
- Area
- 9669
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- language used
- Kulung
- Commons category
- Kosi Zone
- topic's main category
- Category:Kosi Zone
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2015-09-20
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Kosi or Koshi (Nepali: कोसी अञ्चल, Nepali: कोशी अञ्चल Listen) was one of the fourteen zones of Nepal until the restructure of zones to provinces. The headquarters of Kosi Zone was Biratnagar which was also its largest city. Other cities of Kosi Zone were Inaruwa, Dharan, Dhankuta, Jhumka, Duhabi, Tarahara and Itahari. Its main rivers were Arun, Tamor and Sapta Koshi.
Administrative subdivisions
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kosi Zone” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.