Kosi or Koshi ( ne, कोसी अञ्चल, ne, कोशी अञ्चल ) was one of the fourteen

zones Zone or The Zone may refer to: Places Climate and altitude zones * Death zone (originally the lethal zone), altitudes above a certain point where the amount of oxygen is insufficient to sustain human life for an extended time span * Frigid zone, ...

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 ma ...

until the restructure of zones to

provinces A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman '' provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...

. The headquarters of Kosi Zone was

Biratnagar Biratnagar () is a metropolitan city in Nepal, which serves as the capital of Province No. 1. With a population of 242,548 as per the 2011 census, it is the largest city in the province and also the headquarters of Morang district. As per the p ...

which was also its largest city. Other cities of Kosi Zone were Inaruwa,

Dharan Dharan ( ne, धरान) a sub-metropolitan city in Sunsari District of Province No. 1, Nepal, which was established as a fourth municipality in the Kingdom in 1958. It is the third most populous city in Eastern Nepal after Biratnagar and It ...

, Dhankutta,

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, Duhabi and

Itahari Itahari ( ne, ईटहरी) is a sub-metropolitan city in the Sunsari District of Province No. 1 of Nepal. Itahari city is business hub of eastern Nepal. It is the second most populous city in Eastern Nepal after Biratnagar. Situated at a dis ...

. Its main rivers were Arun, Tamor and Sapta Koshi.

Administrative subdivisions

Kosi was divided into six districts; since 2015 these districts have been redesignated as part of

Province No. 1 Province No. 1 (proposed names: Kirat, Limbuwan, Khambuwan, Sagarmatha, Birat and Koshi) is the easternmost of the seven provinces established by the new constitution of Nepal which was adopted on 20 September 2015. The province covers an ...

Famous and religious places

* Pindeswari Temple,

Budha Subba Temple Introduction of Budhasubba Temple Budha Subba Temple is a well known religious temple of the eastern Nepal people. It is situated in Bijayapur of Dharan, Nepal. It is believed to fulfill the wishes and bring good luck to the people visiting th ...

* Panchakanya Temple, Dharan * Bishnupaduka Temple, Dharan * Kali Mandir,

* Chintaangdevi Temple,

Dhankuta Dhankuta ( ne, धनकुटा ) is a hill town and the headquarter of Koshi Zone located in Dhankuta District of Eastern Nepal. According to 2011 Nepal census, it has population of 26,440 inhabitants. History Until about 1963 Dhankuta ...

* Namaste Jharana, Vedetar * Ramdhuni Mandir, Dhuni Ban * Jhumkeshwar Mahadev,

* Barahkshetra Mandir

Barahachhetra Barahachhetra (also Barahakshetra or Varahakshrata; ne, वराहक्षेत्र) is a Hindu and Kirat piligram site which remains between the confluence of Koka and Koshi rivers in Barahakshetra, Sunsari of Province No. 1, Nepal. Th ...

* Auliya Baba Mandir,

Chatara Chatara is a village, in Sahid Matangini CD block in Tamluk subdivision of Purba Medinipur district in the state of West Bengal, India. Geography CD block HQ The headquarters of this CD block are located here. Urbanisation 94.08% of the p ...

* Jabdi Mata Mandir, Pakali * Betana Shimsar,

Belbari Belbari, ( ne, बेलबारी) officially known as Belbari municipality, is one of the major suburb of Morang district, Province No. 1. It lies in the eastern Terai region of Nepal. It was officially upgraded to become a municipality in ...

* Durgadevi Mandir,

Laukahi Laukahi is a village development committee in Sunsari District in the Kosi Zone of south-eastern Nepal. It lies in koshi Gaupalika-01. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census The 1991 Nepal census was a widespread national census conducted by th ...

References

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Administrative subdivisions

Famous and religious places

See also

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