Lumbini Zone
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Key facts
- Country
- Nepal
- Capital
- Butwal
- Total
- 8,975 km (3,465 sq mi)
- Density
- 315.8/km (818.0/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+5:45 ( Nepal Time )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Lumbini
- Country
- Nepal
- Located in
- Western Development Region
- Capital
- Butwal
- Area
- 8975
- Shares border with
- Uttar Pradesh
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- Commons category
- Lumbini Zone
- topic's main category
- Category:Lumbini Zone
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2015-09-20
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Encyclopedic overview
Lumbini (Nepali: लुम्बिनी अञ्चलListen) was one of the fourteen zones of Nepal until the restructure of zones to provinces. Within the zone is the city of Lumbini, widely believed to be the birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism and renowned as a major Buddhist pilgrimage site. The zone's headquarters was Butwal.
Administrative subdivisions
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lumbini Zone” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.