{"id":"mahottari-district","type":"place","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/mahottari-district","language":"en","name":"Mahottari District","name_en":"Mahottari District","name_ne":"महोत्तरी जिल्ला","description":"District of Nepal","headline":"District of Nepal","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Mahottari District, 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 km2 (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.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"type","label":"Type","values":[{"text":"district of Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2537537"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28618#P31"}},{"key":"located_in","label":"Located in","values":[{"text":"Madhesh Province (province of Nepal)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25104009","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/madhesh-province"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28618#P131"}},{"key":"population","label":"Population","values":[{"text":"706,994 (2011)","as_of":"2011-11","value":706994.0}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28618#P1082"}},{"key":"area","label":"Area","values":[{"text":"1,002 km²","value":1002.0}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28618#P2046"}},{"key":"website","label":"Official website","values":[{"text":"ddcmahottari.gov.np","url":"http://ddcmahottari.gov.np/"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28618#P856"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahottari_District","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28618","http://ddcmahottari.gov.np/"],"faq":[{"q":"Where is Mahottari District located?","a":"Mahottari District is located in Madhesh Province, Nepal."},{"q":"What is the population of Mahottari District?","a":"The population of Mahottari District is 706,994 (as of 2011)."}],"related":[{"name":"Bharat Mohan Adhikari","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bharat-mohan-adhikari"},{"name":"Dhanush Chandra Gautam","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/dhanush-chandra-gautam"},{"name":"Kedar Prasad Giri","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/kedar-prasad-giri"},{"name":"Mahendra Kumar Raya","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mahendra-kumar-raya"},{"name":"Dipendra Jha","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/dipendra-jha"},{"name":"Shivajee Yadav","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/shivajee-yadav"}],"places_in":[{"name":"Jaleshwar","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/jaleshwar"}],"nearby":[{"name":"Madhesh Province","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/madhesh-province","km":10.6},{"name":"Janaki Mandir","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/janaki-mandir","km":19.6},{"name":"Janakpur","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/janakpur","km":21.0},{"name":"Janakpur Airport","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/janakpur-airport","km":21.4},{"name":"Dhanusha District","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/dhanusha-district","km":22.7},{"name":"Malangwa","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/malangwa","km":23.1}],"image":{"url":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Jaleshwar_Mahadev_Temple_at_Jaleshwar_%2C_Janakpur.jpg/960px-Jaleshwar_Mahadev_Temple_at_Jaleshwar_%2C_Janakpur.jpg","width":640,"height":427,"license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","credit":"Aditya Pal","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jaleshwar_Mahadev_Temple_at_Jaleshwar_,_Janakpur.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Mahottari District","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahottari_District","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikipedia (Nepali): महोत्तरी जिल्ला","url":"https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q28618","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28618","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Jaleshwar Mahadev Temple at Jaleshwar , Janakpur.jpg by Aditya Pal (CC BY-SA 4.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jaleshwar_Mahadev_Temple_at_Jaleshwar_,_Janakpur.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 Mahottari District, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Jaleshwar Mahadev Temple at Jaleshwar , Janakpur.jpg — Aditya Pal, CC BY-SA 4.0.","cite":"\"Mahottari District\". DigiNepal. Last updated 2 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/places/mahottari-district. Retrieved 21 October 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-02T06:19:02Z","facts_checked":"2026-10-21","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/places/mahottari-district","en":"https://diginpl.com/places/mahottari-district","ne":"https://diginpl.com/places/mahottari-district?lang=ne"}}