{"id":"baniyani","type":"place","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/baniyani","language":"en","name":"Baniyani","name_en":"Baniyani","name_ne":"बनियानी","description":"Village development committee in Jhapa District in the Mechi Zone of south-eastern Nepal","headline":"Village development committee in Jhapa District in the Mechi Zone of south-eastern Nepal","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Baniyani  is a Village Development Committee in Jhapa District in the Province No. 1 of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 5043 people residing in 985 individual households. Laxmi Higher Secondary School, Baniyani Health-Post, and an Armed-Force Camp are located in the vicinity. Mechi River flows to the east on the border of Nepal and India.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"type","label":"Type","values":[{"text":"ward of Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1530705"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3414518#P31"}},{"key":"located_in","label":"Located in","values":[{"text":"Jhapa District (district of Nepal)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28160","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/jhapa-district"},{"text":"Koshi Province (province of Nepal)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25104008","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/koshi-province"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3414518#P131"}},{"key":"population","label":"Population","values":[{"text":"6,458 (2011)","as_of":"2011","value":6458.0}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3414518#P1082"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baniyani","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%80","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3414518"],"faq":[{"q":"Where is Baniyani located?","a":"Baniyani is located in Jhapa District, Koshi Province, Nepal."},{"q":"What is the population of Baniyani?","a":"The population of Baniyani is 6,458 (as of 2011)."}],"related":[],"places_in":[],"nearby":[{"name":"Bhadrapur Municipality","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/bhadrapur-municipality","km":13.5},{"name":"Jhapa District","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/jhapa-district","km":14.9},{"name":"Bhadrapur Airport","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/bhadrapur-airport","km":15.9},{"name":"Birtamod Municipality","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/birtamod-municipality","km":22.8},{"name":"Mechi River","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/mechi-river","km":24.1},{"name":"Mechinagar Municipality","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/mechinagar-municipality","km":26.4}],"image":{"url":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/NepalJhapaDistrictmap.png/960px-NepalJhapaDistrictmap.png","width":640,"height":452,"license":"Public domain","credit":"United Nations","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NepalJhapaDistrictmap.png"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Baniyani","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baniyani","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikipedia (Nepali): बनियानी","url":"https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%80","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q3414518","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3414518","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: NepalJhapaDistrictmap.png by United Nations (Public domain)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NepalJhapaDistrictmap.png","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Baniyani, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: NepalJhapaDistrictmap.png — United Nations, Public domain.","cite":"\"Baniyani\". DigiNepal. Last updated 2 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/places/baniyani. Retrieved 21 October 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-02T06:19:02Z","facts_checked":"2026-10-21","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/places/baniyani","en":"https://diginpl.com/places/baniyani","ne":"https://diginpl.com/places/baniyani?lang=ne"}}