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Saptari is renowned for its agricultural output and is bordered on the east by the massive Koshi River, on the west by the Balan River separating Siraha district, on the north by Udayapur district, and on the south by Supaul district and Madhubani district of Bihar, India.","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/Q28613#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/Q28613#P131"}},{"key":"population","label":"Population","values":[{"text":"706,255 (2011)","as_of":"2011-11","value":706255.0}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28613#P1082"}},{"key":"area","label":"Area","values":[{"text":"1,363 km²","value":1363.0}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28613#P2046"}},{"key":"website","label":"Official website","values":[{"text":"ddcsaptari.gov.np","url":"http://ddcsaptari.gov.np/"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28613#P856"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saptari_District","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%AA%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/Q28613","http://ddcsaptari.gov.np/"],"faq":[{"q":"Where is Saptari District located?","a":"Saptari District is located in Madhesh Province, Nepal."},{"q":"What is the population of Saptari District?","a":"The population of Saptari District is 706,255 (as of 2011)."}],"related":[{"name":"Barsha Lekhi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/barsha-lekhi"},{"name":"Deepak Rauniyar","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/deepak-rauniyar"},{"name":"Satya Narayan Mandal","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/satya-narayan-mandal"},{"name":"Jay Prakash Gupta","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jay-prakash-gupta"},{"name":"Bidheshwor Prasad Yadav","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bidheshwor-prasad-yadav"},{"name":"Pushpa Kumari Chaudhary","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pushpa-kumari-chaudhary"},{"name":"Umesh Kumar Yadav","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/umesh-kumar-yadav"},{"name":"Anish Ansari","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/anish-ansari"}],"places_in":[{"name":"Rajbiraj","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/rajbiraj"},{"name":"Chhinnamasta Rural Municipality","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/chhinnamasta-rural-municipality"},{"name":"Khadgapur","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/khadgapur"},{"name":"Koiladi","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/koiladi"},{"name":"Banauli","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/banauli"}],"nearby":[{"name":"Rajbiraj","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/rajbiraj","km":4.9},{"name":"Banauli","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/banauli","km":12.9},{"name":"Koiladi","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/koiladi","km":12.9},{"name":"Chhinnamasta Rural Municipality","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/chhinnamasta-rural-municipality","km":15.1},{"name":"Khadgapur","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/khadgapur","km":16.6},{"name":"Triyuga Municipality","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/triyuga-municipality","km":23.7}],"image":{"url":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Chhinnamasta_Temple%2C_Saptari-WLV-0806.jpg/960px-Chhinnamasta_Temple%2C_Saptari-WLV-0806.jpg","width":640,"height":427,"license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","credit":"Bijay Chaurasia","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chhinnamasta_Temple,_Saptari-WLV-0806.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Saptari District","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saptari_District","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikipedia (Nepali): सप्तरी जिल्ला","url":"https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%AA%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 Q28613","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28613","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Chhinnamasta Temple, Saptari-WLV-0806.jpg by Bijay Chaurasia (CC BY-SA 4.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chhinnamasta_Temple,_Saptari-WLV-0806.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 Saptari District, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Chhinnamasta Temple, Saptari-WLV-0806.jpg — Bijay Chaurasia, CC BY-SA 4.0.","cite":"\"Saptari District\". DigiNepal. Last updated 2 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/places/saptari-district. Retrieved 21 October 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-02T06:19:02Z","facts_checked":"2026-10-21","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/places/saptari-district","en":"https://diginpl.com/places/saptari-district","ne":"https://diginpl.com/places/saptari-district?lang=ne"}}