{"id":"siraha-district","type":"place","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/siraha-district","language":"en","name":"Siraha District","name_en":"Siraha District","name_ne":"सिराहा जिल्ला","description":"District in Nepal","headline":"District in Nepal","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Siraha District, a district in Madhesh Province, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. It is situated in the Terai belt of Nepal. The district, with Siraha Municipality as its district headquarters, covers an area of 1,188 km2 (459 sq mi). It has population of 739,953 according to census 2021 in which 49.2% are male where as 50.8% are female. The District is bordered with Saptari district in the east Balan River, Udayapur districting the north Chure Hill, Bihar state of India in the south and Dhanusa district in the west Kamala River. Majority of the population here is Yadav, Kushwaha(mahato), Tharus, Sah(teli), Muslims and ethnic minorities with majority population speaking English, Maithili language and Nēpālī language.","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/Q28088#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/Q28088#P131"}},{"key":"population","label":"Population","values":[{"text":"739,953 (2011)","as_of":"2011-11","value":739953.0}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28088#P1082"}},{"key":"area","label":"Area","values":[{"text":"1,188 km²","value":1188.0}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28088#P2046"}},{"key":"website","label":"Official website","values":[{"text":"ddcsiraha.gov.np","url":"http://ddcsiraha.gov.np/"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28088#P856"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siraha_District","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28088","http://ddcsiraha.gov.np/"],"faq":[{"q":"Where is Siraha District located?","a":"Siraha District is located in Madhesh Province, Nepal."},{"q":"What is the population of Siraha District?","a":"The population of Siraha District is 739,953 (as of 2011)."}],"related":[{"name":"Tulsi Giri","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/tulsi-giri"},{"name":"Anjani Kumar Sharma","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/anjani-kumar-sharma"},{"name":"Ram Chandra Yadav","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ram-chandra-yadav"},{"name":"Uma Singh","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/uma-singh"}],"places_in":[{"name":"Siraha","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/siraha"},{"name":"Lahan","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/lahan"}],"nearby":[{"name":"Siraha","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/siraha","km":14.4},{"name":"Lahan","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/lahan","km":14.9},{"name":"Katari Municipality","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/katari-municipality","km":26.2},{"name":"Khadgapur","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/khadgapur","km":32.2},{"name":"Banauli","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/banauli","km":32.3},{"name":"Dhanusha District","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/dhanusha-district","km":32.8}],"image":{"url":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Mahendra_Highway_in_Lahan%2C_Nepal.jpg/960px-Mahendra_Highway_in_Lahan%2C_Nepal.jpg","width":640,"height":360,"license":"CC BY-SA 3.0","credit":"Innocentbunny","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mahendra_Highway_in_Lahan,_Nepal.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Siraha District","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siraha_District","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikipedia (Nepali): सिराहा जिल्ला","url":"https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BE_%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 Q28088","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28088","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Mahendra Highway in Lahan, Nepal.jpg by Innocentbunny (CC BY-SA 3.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mahendra_Highway_in_Lahan,_Nepal.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 Siraha District, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Mahendra Highway in Lahan, Nepal.jpg — Innocentbunny, CC BY-SA 3.0.","cite":"\"Siraha District\". DigiNepal. Last updated 2 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/places/siraha-district. Retrieved 21 October 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-02T06:19:02Z","facts_checked":"2026-10-21","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/places/siraha-district","en":"https://diginpl.com/places/siraha-district","ne":"https://diginpl.com/places/siraha-district?lang=ne"}}