Key facts
- Country
- Nepal
- Region
- Mithila
- Province
- Madhesh Province
- Admin hq
- Jaleshwar
- Type
- Coordination committee
- Body
- DCC , Mahottari
- Total
- 1,002 km (387 sq mi)
- Density
- 704.4/km (1,824/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+05:45 ( NPT )
- Telephone code
- 044
- Main language s
- Maithili (88.0%), Nepali (5.6%), other (6.4%)
- Website
- ddcmahottari .gov .np
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Nepal
- Country
- Nepal
- Located in
- Madhesh Province
- Capital
- Jaleshwar
- Population
- 706994
- Area
- 1002
- Official website
- ddcmahottari.gov.np
- Households
- 137902
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- topic's main category
- Category:Mahottari District
- Commons category
- Mahottari District
- male population
- 349159
- female population
- 357835
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Encyclopedic overview
Mahottari District (Nepali: महोत्तरी जिल्ला, Listen), a part of Madhesh Province, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. The district, with Jaleshwar as its district headquarters, covers an area of 1,002 km (387 sq mi) and had a population of 553,481 in 2001, 627,580 in 2011 and 705,838 in 2021 census. Its headquarters is located in Jaleshwar, a neighbouring town of the historical city of Janakpur. The name Jaleshwar means 'God in Water'. One can find a famous temple of Lord Shiva in Water there. Jaleshwar lies at a few kilometres distance from the Nepal-India border and has a majority Maithili population.
Geography and climate
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mahottari District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.