{"id":"mirchaiya","type":"place","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/mirchaiya","language":"en","name":"Mirchaiya","name_en":"Mirchaiya","name_ne":"रामनगर मिर्चैया","description":"Human settlement in Nepal","headline":"Human settlement in Nepal","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Mirchaiya formerly known as Ramnagar Mirchaiya is a municipality in Siraha District in the Madhesh Province of south-eastern Nepal. The municipality was established on 18 May 2014 by merging the existing Rampur Birta, Malhaniyakhori, Radhopur, Ramnagar Mirchaiya, Phulbariya, Sitapur PraDa and Maheshpur Gamharia Village Development Committees.  At the time of the 2017 municipality records, it had a population of approx. 52,000 people living in approx 8,496 individual households. This is one of the main business markets for Katari and the southern part of the Siraha district. Raw material produced here includes padday, miaze, and sugar cane.","summary_more":["Frequently used language of Mirchaiya is Maithali and always follow their tradition. However, the people of this locality are well educated and can speak English, Nepali, Hindi and some other local languages according to their ethnicity (language carry forward from ancient period). The famous festival of Mirchaiya is Durga Puja (Dashain, Vijaya Dashami), Jhanda Mela, Holi, Chhat puja, Vasant Panchami, Deepawali. The mode of transportation mostly used include: bus, car, bike, bicycle, rickshaw, tempo, and mini bus.","Mirchaiya is considered as a trade and economic center of Sagarmatha zone and some part of Udayapur district after lahan. It was primarily an agrarian economy, but it has evolved as trade and industrial center of the region. Residents of hilly and mountainous regions of Sagarmatha zone are largely dependent on Mirchaiya for their supplies. Mirchaiya is a free wifi zone."],"facts":[{"key":"type","label":"Type","values":[{"text":"human settlement","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q486972"},{"text":"municipality of Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3492039"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3421554#P31"}},{"key":"located_in","label":"Located in","values":[{"text":"Siraha District (district of Nepal)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28088","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/siraha-district"},{"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/Q3421554#P131"}},{"key":"website","label":"Official website","values":[{"text":"mirchaiyamun.gov.np","url":"http://www.mirchaiyamun.gov.np"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3421554#P856"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirchaiya","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE_%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/Q3421554","http://www.mirchaiyamun.gov.np"],"faq":[{"q":"Where is Mirchaiya located?","a":"Mirchaiya is located in Siraha District, Madhesh Province, Nepal."}],"related":[{"name":"Dilip Kumar Sah","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/dilip-kumar-sah"},{"name":"Mount Everest","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/mount-everest"},{"name":"Himalayas","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/himalayas"},{"name":"Kathmandu","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/kathmandu"},{"name":"Kangchenjunga","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/kangchenjunga"},{"name":"Annapurna (mountain range)","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/annapurna-mountain-range"},{"name":"Dhaulagiri","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/dhaulagiri"},{"name":"Makalu","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/makalu"},{"name":"Lhotse","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/lhotse"},{"name":"Cho Oyu","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/cho-oyu"},{"name":"Manaslu","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/manaslu"},{"name":"Pokhara","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/pokhara"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[{"name":"Malhaniyakhori","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/malhaniyakhori","km":3.4},{"name":"Karjanha","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/karjanha","km":3.7},{"name":"Maheshpur Patari","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/maheshpur-patari","km":3.9},{"name":"Rampur Birta, Siraha","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/rampur-birta-siraha","km":3.9},{"name":"Radhopur","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/radhopur","km":4.5},{"name":"Fulbariya","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/fulbariya","km":5.4}],"image":{"url":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Chure_range_seen_from_Mirchaiya.jpg/960px-Chure_range_seen_from_Mirchaiya.jpg","width":640,"height":264,"license":"CC0","credit":"Chureregionnepal","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chure_range_seen_from_Mirchaiya.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Mirchaiya","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirchaiya","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikipedia (Nepali): रामनगर मिर्चैया","url":"https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE_%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 Q3421554","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3421554","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Chure range seen from Mirchaiya.jpg by Chureregionnepal (CC0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chure_range_seen_from_Mirchaiya.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 Mirchaiya, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Chure range seen from Mirchaiya.jpg — Chureregionnepal, CC0.","cite":"\"Mirchaiya\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/places/mirchaiya. Retrieved 4 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T09:28:17Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-04","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/places/mirchaiya","en":"https://diginpl.com/places/mirchaiya","ne":"https://diginpl.com/places/mirchaiya?lang=ne"}}