{"id":"rautahat-district","type":"place","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/rautahat-district","language":"en","name":"Rautahat District","name_en":"Rautahat District","name_ne":"रौतहट जिल्ला","description":"District of Nepal","headline":"District of Nepal","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Rautahat District, a part of Madhesh Province, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. The district headquarter is Gaur, including municipalities like Katahariya, Garuda, Chandrapur, Paroha, covers an area of 1,126 km2 and had a population of 545,132 in 2001 and 686,722 in 2011. This district has a total of 2 VDCs and 16 municipalities. Among other districts, Rautahat has the largest percent of Muslims in Nepal, about 22.4%. The most densely populated village in Rautahat district, Rajpur pharhadwa(राजपुर फरहदवा), is primarily Muslim, but a majority of people in the district are Hindu. Sri Ram Sugar Mill is the only sugar mill located in Garuda municipality. The well known shiva temple located in Shivnagar, which is looked after by Sah and Jha family. The historical temple of Goddess Durga is in Matsari.Every year, the temple welcomes millions of devotees from different parts of Nepal and India as well on the occasion of Navaratri. Late Shri Gulab Narayan Jha, the first person to represent Madhesis in politics, was permanent resident of this village. There is a place called Najarpur in Chandrapur where whole village is vegetarian. They are not even allowed to buy or sell any alcoholic beverages and buying and selling of tobacco products is also prohibited.","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/Q28098#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/Q28098#P131"}},{"key":"population","label":"Population","values":[{"text":"813,573 (2011)","as_of":"2011-11","value":813573.0}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28098#P1082"}},{"key":"area","label":"Area","values":[{"text":"1,126 km²","value":1126.0}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28098#P2046"}},{"key":"website","label":"Official website","values":[{"text":"ddcrautahat.gov.np","url":"http://ddcrautahat.gov.np/"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28098#P856"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rautahat_District","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8C%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%9F_%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28098","http://ddcrautahat.gov.np/"],"faq":[{"q":"Where is Rautahat District located?","a":"Rautahat District is located in Madhesh Province, Nepal."},{"q":"What is the population of Rautahat District?","a":"The population of Rautahat District is 813,573 (as of 2011)."}],"related":[{"name":"Madhav Kumar Nepal","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/madhav-kumar-nepal"},{"name":"Jitendra Mukhiya","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jitendra-mukhiya"},{"name":"Prabhu Sah","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/prabhu-sah"},{"name":"Alka Kumari Jha","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alka-kumari-jha"},{"name":"Kedar Prasad Chalise","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/kedar-prasad-chalise"},{"name":"Bansidhar Mishra","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bansidhar-mishra"},{"name":"Nagendra Rae Yadav","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/nagendra-rae-yadav"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[{"name":"Gaur, Nepal","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/gaur-nepal","km":22.6},{"name":"Sarlahi District","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/sarlahi-district","km":24.8},{"name":"Malangwa","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/malangwa","km":28.7},{"name":"Bara District","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/bara-district","km":30.6},{"name":"Kalaiya","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/kalaiya","km":30.6},{"name":"Simara Airport","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/simara-airport","km":38.3}],"image":{"url":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Nunthar_Shiva_Mandir.jpg/960px-Nunthar_Shiva_Mandir.jpg","width":640,"height":480,"license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","credit":"Gaurav Dhwaj Khadka","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nunthar_Shiva_Mandir.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Rautahat District","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rautahat_District","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikipedia (Nepali): रौतहट जिल्ला","url":"https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8C%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%9F_%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 Q28098","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28098","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Nunthar Shiva Mandir.jpg by Gaurav Dhwaj Khadka (CC BY-SA 4.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nunthar_Shiva_Mandir.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 Rautahat District, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Nunthar Shiva Mandir.jpg — Gaurav Dhwaj Khadka, CC BY-SA 4.0.","cite":"\"Rautahat District\". DigiNepal. Last updated 2 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/places/rautahat-district. Retrieved 21 October 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-02T06:19:02Z","facts_checked":"2026-10-21","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/places/rautahat-district","en":"https://diginpl.com/places/rautahat-district","ne":"https://diginpl.com/places/rautahat-district?lang=ne"}}