:''not to be confused with
Chennai
Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of th ...
, India''
Chanai is a town in
Shivaraj Municipality
Shivaraj is a Municipality in Kapilvastu District in the Lumbini Zone of southern Nepal. The former Village development committee (Nepal), village development committee was transformed into Municipality from 18 May 2014 by merging the existing Bir ...
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 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 ...
. The former
village development committee was transformed into Municipality from 18 May 2014 by merging the existing
Birpur, Nepal, Chanai,
Bishunpur,
Jawabhari
Jawabhari is a town in Shivaraj Municipality in Kapilvastu District in the Lumbini Zone of southern Nepal. The former village development committee was transformed into Municipality from 18 May 2014 by merging the existing Birpur, Nepal, Cha ...
and
Shivapur
Shivaraj is a Municipality in Kapilvastu District in the Lumbini Zone of southern Nepal. The former village development committee was transformed into Municipality from 18 May 2014 by merging the existing Birpur, Chanai, Bishunpur, Jawabhari ...
village development committees. 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 6141 people living in 1023 individual households.
References
Populated places in Kapilvastu District
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