Madhubani is a city

Municipal Corporation Municipal corporation is the legal term for a local governing body, including (but not necessarily limited to) cities, counties, towns, townships, charter townships, villages, and boroughs. The term can also be used to describe municipally o ...

and headquarter of

Madhubani district Madhubani district is one of the thirty-eight districts of Bihar, India, and is a part of Darbhanga division. Its administrative headquarters are located in Madhubani. The district has an area of and has a population of 4,487,379 (as of 20 ...

. Madhubani is situated in the

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Bihar Bihar ( ) is a states and union territories of India, state in Eastern India. It is the list of states and union territories of India by population, second largest state by population, the List of states and union territories of India by are ...

. It comes under

Darbhanga Division Darbhanga Division is an administrative geographical unit of Bihar state of India, and Darbhanga city is the administrative headquarters of the division. It is a part of historical Mithila region. The main language of the division is Maithili an ...

. It is situated at 26 km northeast of

Darbhanga Darbhanga is the fifth largest city and municipal corporation in the state of Bihar in India, and is considered an important city in North Bihar. It serves as the headquarters of the Darbhanga district and the Darbhanga division. Darbhanga ...

City. The Madhuban Raj in Madhubani was created as a consequence. The word "Madhuban" means "

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", from which Madhubani is derived, but sometimes it is also known as "madhu"+"vaani" meaning "sweet" "voice/language". Madhubani temple

Area

* Madhubani occupies a total of 3501 km². * Main Rivers are Kamla, Kareh, Balan, Bhutahi Balan, Gehuan, Supen, Trishula, Jeevachh, Koshi and Adhwara Group. * High Flood Level is 54.017 m. * Whole District is under Earthquake Zone 5. * Total Cropped Area – 218381 Hect. * Barren /Uncultivable Land – 1456.5 Hect * Land under Non-agricultural use – 51273.24 Hect * Cultivable Barren Land – 333.32 Hect * Permanent Pasture – 1372.71 Hect * Miscellaneous Trees – 8835.90 Hect * Cultivable Land – 232724 Hect * Cropping Intensity – 134.23%

Geography

Madhubani is situated about 35 km from the

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Border, 26 km from

, 180 km from

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and 100 km from

Saharsa Saharsa is a city and municipal corporation in the Saharsa District in the eastern part of the state of Bihar, India. It is situated near the eastern banks of the Kosi River. It serves as the administrative headquarters for the Saharsa District ...

. Madhubani Town is located at . It has an average elevation of 56 metres.

Demographics

India

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, Madhubani Town had a population of 166,285. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Madhubani Town has an average literacy rate of 58.62, against the national average of 62.39%: male literacy is 70.14%, and female literacy is 46.16%. In Madhubani Town, 16% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Urban Haat

The first urban haat of Bihar have built in Araria Sangram of Madhubani district, which is known as Mithilahaat, which is a park in Madhubhani, made by the Bihar State Tourism Development Corporation (BSTDC) and inaugurated by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on January 11, 2023.

Trade

Laukaha Laukaha is a very old border town and a Community development block in the district of Madhubani district, Madhubani in the Indian state of Bihar. It is close to the border with Nepal and the Nepalese town of Thadi. The population of Laukaha i ...

is a nearby town close to the border of Nepalese town of

Thadi Thadi () or Thadi Viswaspatti is a very old border town and a market place of Nepal in Siraha District bordering Indian town of Laukaha. It is currently part of Bhagwanpur Rural municipality. It is located nearly 370 kilometers or 107 miles east ...

in India and

in Nepal are a part of one of the agreed route for Mutual Trade between

and

and import and export to

happen via

. Government of

has set up a dedicated customs office in the town. and Government of

has set up a Land Customs Station with a Superintendent level officer.

Education

* Ram Krishna College * Madhubani Medical College and Hospital * Jagdish Nandan College

Notable people

Nischalananda Saraswati Nishchalananda Saraswati is an Indian spiritual leader and scholar in the Advaita Vedanta tradition. He is the 145th Jagadguru Shankaracharya of the Rigvediya Purvamnaya Sri Govardhana Peetha of Puri, Odisha, India. He has played a pivotal r ...

, 145th Shankaracharya of the Govardhana Peetha at Puri. * Bhogendra Jha * Arknath Chaudhary * Chandramani Datta * Mahasundari Devi * Sita Devi *

Ashish Jha Ashish Kumar Jha (born December 31, 1970) is an Indian-American general internist physician and academic who served as the White House COVID-19 response coordinator from 2022–2023. He has been Dean of the Brown University School of Public Hea ...

* Ganganath Jha * Narendra Jha * Sanjay Kumar Jha * Sriram Jha * Mangani Lal Mandal * Ramprit Mandal *

Ram Prit Paswan Ram Prit Paswan (born 21 March 1963) is an Indian politician from Bihar. He is a two time MLA and also served as a minister of public health engineering department in the Government of Bihar. He won the 2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election re ...

* Chaturanan Mishra *

Lalit Narayan Mishra Lalit Narayan Mishra (2 February 1923 – 3 January 1975) was an Indian politician who served as Minister of Railways in the government of India from 1973 to 1975. His political career started when he was made parliamentary secretary to the ...

Mohan Mishra Mohan Mishra (19 May 1937 - 6 May 2021) was an Indian physician, known for his studies on Visceral leishmaniasis, (''Kala Azar'') and its treatment using Amphotericin B, regarded by many as a pioneering attempt. The Government of India honoured h ...

* Prem Chandra Mishra *

Maṇḍana Miśra Mandana Mishra (; c. ) was a Hindu philosopher who wrote on the Mīmāṃsā and Advaita systems of thought. He was a follower of the Karma Mimamsa school of philosophy and a staunch defender of the holistic sphota doctrine of language. He w ...

* Amrish Ranjan Pandey * Mohammad Shams Aalam Shaikh *

Gajendra Thakur Gajendra Thakur (born 1971) is an Indian author. He writes in the Maithili language, a language spoken in Northern Bihar (of India) and South-Eastern Nepal. He is an author, lexicographer, historian (of Mithila- ancient Videha and of ''Maithili ...

Vidyapati Vidyapati ( – 1448), also known by the sobriquet ''Maithil Kavi Kokil'' (the poet cuckoo of Maithili), was a Maithili and Sanskrit polymath-poet-saint, playwright, composer, biographer, philosopher, law-theorist, writer, courtier and ...

, Maithili poet *

Devendra Prasad Yadav Devendra Prasad Yadav (born 26 November 1953) is a former member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Jhanjharpur constituency of Bihar and was a member of the Rashtriya Janata Dal, Janata Dal (United) and Janata Dal. He joine ...

* Hukmdev Narayan Yadav * Ashok Kumar Yadav * Maithili Thakur

References

External links

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Bihar Govt. Official Web Site
{{Authority control Cities and towns in Madhubani district