{"id":"birendranagar","type":"place","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/birendranagar","language":"en","name":"Birendranagar","name_en":"Birendranagar","name_ne":"वीरेन्द्रनगर नगरपालिका","description":"City","headline":"City","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Birendranagar officially Birendranagar Municipality is a city in Surkhet District in Karnali Province of Nepal.\nIt is the capital city of Karnali province as well as the district headquarter of Surkhet district. As of March 2022, Birendranagar has a population of 154,886, making it the 17th most populous city of Nepal. Birendranagar is the largest city of Karnali province and 7th largest in Western Nepal. It is one of the fastest growing cities of Nepal and is on two national highways, Ratna Highway and Karnali Highway. It is one of the constituent city of the Ratna Highway Metropolitan Areas along with Nepalgunj and Kohalpur. Birendranagar compromises of panoramic view of Mahabharata and Chure ranges and the plain of the inner Terai. A major trade center in mid-western Nepal, Birendranagar is considered the most expensive city to live in Nepal.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"type","label":"Type","values":[{"text":"city","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q515"},{"text":"municipality of Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3492039"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q865146#P31"}},{"key":"located_in","label":"Located in","values":[{"text":"Surkhet District (district of Nepal)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28589","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/surkhet-district"},{"text":"Karnali Province (province of Nepal)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25104017","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/karnali-province"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q865146#P131"}},{"key":"population","label":"Population","values":[{"text":"47,914 (2011)","as_of":"2011","value":47914.0}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q865146#P1082"}},{"key":"elevation","label":"Elevation","values":[{"text":"152 m","value":152.0}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q865146#P2044"}},{"key":"website","label":"Official website","values":[{"text":"birendranagarmun.gov.np","url":"http://birendranagarmun.gov.np"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q865146#P856"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birendranagar","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%B0_%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q865146","http://birendranagarmun.gov.np"],"faq":[{"q":"Where is Birendranagar located?","a":"Birendranagar is located in Surkhet District, Karnali Province, Nepal."},{"q":"What is the population of Birendranagar?","a":"The population of Birendranagar is 47,914 (as of 2011)."},{"q":"What is the elevation of Birendranagar?","a":"Birendranagar is at an elevation of 152 m above sea level."}],"related":[{"name":"Durga Keshar Khanal","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/durga-keshar-khanal"},{"name":"Hridaya Ram Thani","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/hridaya-ram-thani"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[{"name":"Mid-Western Development Region, Nepal","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/mid-western-development-region-nepal","km":0.0},{"name":"Surkhet Airport","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/surkhet-airport","km":1.6},{"name":"Bheri Zone","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/bheri-zone","km":12.1},{"name":"Surkhet District","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/surkhet-district","km":16.9},{"name":"Bardiya National Park","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/bardiya-national-park","km":21.5},{"name":"Dailekh District","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/dailekh-district","km":26.1}],"image":{"url":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Ghantaghar%40surkhet.JPG/960px-Ghantaghar%40surkhet.JPG","width":640,"height":480,"license":"CC BY-SA 3.0","credit":"Krish Dulal","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ghantaghar@surkhet.JPG"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Birendranagar","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birendranagar","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikipedia (Nepali): वीरेन्द्रनगर नगरपालिका","url":"https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%B0_%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q865146","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q865146","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Ghantaghar@surkhet.JPG by Krish Dulal (CC BY-SA 3.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ghantaghar@surkhet.JPG","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 Birendranagar, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Ghantaghar@surkhet.JPG — Krish Dulal, CC BY-SA 3.0.","cite":"\"Birendranagar\". DigiNepal. Last updated 2 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/places/birendranagar. Retrieved 21 October 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-02T06:19:02Z","facts_checked":"2026-10-21","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/places/birendranagar","en":"https://diginpl.com/places/birendranagar","ne":"https://diginpl.com/places/birendranagar?lang=ne"}}