Pipara Simara (also Pipra Simra or Simara or Simra;
Nepali
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: पिपरा सिमरा ''or'' सिमरा) is a
town in
Jitpursimara
Jitpursimara (also Jeetpursimara or Jeetpur Simara) is a sub-metropolitan city in Bara District in Province No. 2 of southern Nepal that was formed on 10 March 2017 after merging Gadhimai Municipality, Inarwasira, Amlekhganj, as well as parts of ...
sub-metropolitan city
Cities and towns in Nepal are incorporated under municipality. A municipality in Nepal is a sub-unit of a district. The Government of Nepal has set-out a minimum criteria for municipalities. These criteria include a certain population, infra ...
in
Bara District in
Province No. 2
Madhesh Province ( Nepali/ mai, मधेश प्रदेश) is a province of Nepal that was formed after the adoption of the Constitution of Nepal. It is Nepal's most populous province, and smallest province by area. It borders Province N ...
of south-eastern
Nepal. The formerly
Village Development Committee was merged to form a new municipality
Gadhimai Municipality
Gadhimai is a municipality in Rautahat district of Narayani zone, Nepal. It lies at the border of Rautahat district that links Sarlahi District over Bagmati River. It was formed by merging former 6 Village development committees Gamhariya, sa ...
on 18 May 2014. Similarly, on 10 March 2017 Gadhimai Municipality, Inarwasira, Amlekhganj, as well as parts of Manharwa, Haraiya and Rampur Tokani were merged to form new
Jitpursimara
Jitpursimara (also Jeetpursimara or Jeetpur Simara) is a sub-metropolitan city in Bara District in Province No. 2 of southern Nepal that was formed on 10 March 2017 after merging Gadhimai Municipality, Inarwasira, Amlekhganj, as well as parts of ...
sub-metropolitan city
Cities and towns in Nepal are incorporated under municipality. A municipality in Nepal is a sub-unit of a district. The Government of Nepal has set-out a minimum criteria for municipalities. These criteria include a certain population, infra ...
. Aauraha, Ramban, Narbasti,Bajani etc are the village in Simara.Auraha lies in the east, Bajani in the south, Ramban & Narbasti in the west. At the time of the
2011 Nepal census
Nepal conducted a widespread national census in 2011 by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics. Working with the 58 municipalities and the 3915 Village Development Committees at a district level, they recorded data from all the municipalities an ...
it had a population of 23,835 people living in 5,253 individual households.
Climate
The highest temperature ever recorded in Simara was on 6 June 1979, while the lowest temperature ever recorded was on 23 January 1985.
[. Retrieved 27 February 2016.]
Transportation
Simara is connected with
Birgunj in the South and with
Pathlaiya
Bara District ( ne, बारा जिल्ला ) is one of the seventy–seven districts of Nepal, located in the western part of the Madhesh Province. The district is third richest district in Nepal after Kathmandu and Morang with 3.3% sh ...
in the north by the
Tribhuvan Highway.
Simara Airport was established on 4 July 1958.
Media
To promote local culture, giving peoples news and entertainment, Simara has three FM radio stations.
Radio Simara (106 MHz) is a
community radio station and a new FM station is going to be on air soon called Radio Samarpan 98.2 MHz which is testing its transmission.
References
External links
UN map of the municipalities of Bara District
Populated places in Bara District
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