Babiya was a former
village development committee in
Sunsari District
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, in the
Kosi Zone
Kosi or Koshi ( ne, कोसी अञ्चल, ne, कोशी अञ्चल ) was one of the fourteen zones of Nepal until the restructure of zones to provinces. The headquarters of Kosi Zone was Biratnagar which was also its largest cit ...
of south-eastern
Nepal
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सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...
. Currently, it is merged with District Headquarter
Inaruwa municipality. At the time of the
1991 Nepal census
The 1991 Nepal census was a widespread national census conducted by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics.
Working with Nepal's Village Development Committees at a district level,
they recorded data from all the main towns and villages of each ...
it had a population of 5546 people living in 888 individual households.
Major castes of this VDC are
Yadav
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,
Muslims
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,
Shah
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,
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and others.
References
Populated places in Sunsari District
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