Dhanusha District


Dhanusha District, a part of Madhesh Province, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. It is situated in the Outer Terai. The district, with Janakpurdham as its district headquarter, covers an area of and has a population of 838,084.
During the elections in April 2008, the district was divided into seven constituencies. It is also the home district of the first president of Nepal, Dr. Ram Baran Yadav, who contested and won the elections from constituency 5. As a political center of the region, Dhanusha has prominent leaders like Bimalendra Nidhi (Former Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal), Anand Prasad Dhungana, Mahendra Yadav and Ram Krishna Yadav from the Nepali Congress, Anand Yadav from the CPN-UML, Matrika Yadav from the CPN-Maoist and Ram Chandra Jha from CPN (Unified Socialist) who have been ministers at various point of time and are still active.
The most common language spoken in Dhanusha is Maithili.
Dhanusha District has an airport and the only railway system of Nepal which connects Janakpurdham with an Indian town, Jayanagar. It also has the Janakpur Zonal Hospital and several private hospitals.
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Economy

Agriculture is the major economy of the Dhanusha district. About 90% of citizens of the district are involved in the cultivation of wheat and rice. Rice is the major output. Dhanusha still relies mostly on old-age farming practices, such as the use of bullock-cart for transportation and bull plow for tilling the agriculture fields. However, there is a slow introduction to modern techniques such as a tractor for goods transportation, thrasher, and so on. Remittances make up a large portion of its GDP.

Demographics

At the time of the 2021 Nepal census, Dhanusa District had a population of 867,747. 11.03% of the population is under 5 years of age. It has a literacy rate of 65.22% and a sex ratio of 1019 females per 1000 males. 710060 lived in municipalities.
Ethnicity/caste: Madheshis are the largest group. Yadavs are over 17% of the population. Muslims are 9% of the population, and Hill Janjati are 3% of the population.
Religion: 89.0% were Hindu, 9.6% Muslim, 1.1% Buddhism.
Maithili is the largest language. Magahi is the second-largest language. Urdu and Nepali are spoken by a small minority.

Administration

The district consists of one sub-metropolitan city, eleven urban municipalities and six rural municipalities. These are as follows:

Former municipalities and VDCs

Villages

Notable people

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