Bangai is a village development committee in

Kapilvastu District Kapilvastu district ( ne, कपिलवस्तु जिल्ला ), often Kapilbastu, is one of the districts of Lumbini Province, Nepal. The district, with Kapilbastu municipality as its district headquarters, covers an area of and in ...

in the

Lumbini Zone Lumbini ( ne, लुम्बिनी अञ्चल) was one of the fourteen zones of Nepal until the restructure of zones to provinces. It is home to the Lumbini site, the birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama, who later became the historical Budd ...

of southern

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...

. Locally, there are two places known by the name of Bangai, Gherawa Bangain in the east and Koili Bangain in the west, separated by the distance of 1 km.

Mahendra Highway Mahendra Highway (), also called East-West Highway () runs across the Terai geographical region of Nepal, from Mechinagar in the east to Bhim Datta in the west, cutting across the entire width of the country. It is the longest highway in Nepal a ...

(Mahendra Rajmarg in Nepali) or east–west highway passes through it. The Banganga river marks the south boundary of Bangain. Manoharipur is the first adjacent village in the south of it which lies in the Kopawa V.D.C. Locally, Bangain is famous for its funeral site on the bank of Banganga known as Laxmanghat. It is also a major shopping hub within 5 km of its radius due to its proximity with the highway. 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 2983 people living in 528 individual households.

References

Populated places in Kapilvastu District {{Kapilvastu-geo-stub