Karnali HighwayKarnali Highway (NH58), also known as Karnali Corridor, is the north–south longest National highway of Nepal. It connects Nepal, China, and India. The Karnali Corridor stretches from Jamunaha in Banke District near the Indo–Nepal border to Hilsa in Humla District near the Nepal–China border.
Surkhet ValleySurkhet Valley is the largest inner Terai valley of Karnali Province, Nepal. It serves as the administrative and commercial center of the province, with Birendranagar as its capital city. The valley is situated in Midwestern Nepal in Surkhet district, surrounded by the Sivalik hills and Mahabharat range. The valley is about 700 m (2,300 ft) above sea level, forming an ellipse about 9 km (5.6 mi) east-west by 6 km (3.7 mi) north-south.
Karnali ProvinceKarnali Province (Nepali: कर्णाली प्रदेश, romanized: Karṇālī pradēśa) is one of the seven federal provinces of Nepal formed by the new constitution, which was adopted on 20 September 2015. The total area of the province is 27,984 square kilometres (10,805 mi2), making it the largest province in Nepal with 18.97% of the country's area.
Ratna HighwayRatna Highway (previously H12) (Nepali: रत्न राजमार्ग) is now a part of NH58 together with Karnali Highway. Ratna Highway was a highway in western Nepal that crosses the districts of Banke and Surkhet in a south to north direction. The 113.08 km highway starts at Nepalgunj, where it depicts a continuation of National Highway 927 of India and runs towards the North, where it crosses Mahendra Highway at Kohalpur.
Surkhet DistrictSurkhet District (Nepali: सुर्खेत जिल्ला, ) is a district in Karnali Province of mid-western and one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. Surkhet is one of the ten districts of Karnali located about 600 kilometres (373 mi) west of the national capital Kathmandu. The district's area is 2,489 square kilometres (961 sq mi). It had 288,527 population in 2001 and 350,804 in 2011 which male comprised 169,461 and female 181,381.
NepalNepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China to the north, and India to the south, east, and west, while it is narrowly separated from Bangladesh by the Siliguri Corridor, and from Bhutan by the Indian state of Sikkim.
NepalgunjNepalgunj (Nepali: नेपालगञ्ज; ), also spelled Nepalganj, is a Sub-Metropolitan City in BankeDistrict, Nepal. It lies on the Terai plains near the southern border with Bahraich district in Uttar Pradesh, India. Nepalgunj is 153 kilometers south-west of Ghorahi and 16 km south of Kohalpur.
KohalpurKohalpur (Nepali: कोहलपुर) is a municipality in Banke District of Lumbini province of Nepal. The municipality was established on 18 May 2014 merging the existing two Village Development Committees i.e. Rajhena and Kohalpur. The town is in East-West highway and one of the fastest developing places in Nepal.
TeraiRegion in northern India and southern Nepal TeraiAerial view of Terai plains near Biratnagar, NepalEcologyRealmIndomalayan realmAnimalsgharial, mugger crocodile, king cobraBird speciesBengal florican, lesser adjutant, swamp francolin, white-rumped vulture, Oriental darter, sarus craneMammal speciesIndian rhinoceros, Asian elephant, gaur, blackbuck, tiger, leopard, jungle cat, fishing cat, leopard cat, smooth-coated otter, large Indian civet, Asian palm civet, small Indian civet, hispid hareGeographyCountriesNepal, IndiaElevation67–300 m (220–984 ft)RiversSharda River, Karnali River, Gandaki River, Koshi RiverClimate typetropical savanna climateSoil typesalluvialConservationGlobal 200Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands The Terai or Tarai is a lowland region in parts of southern Nepal and northern India that lies to the south of the outer foothills of the Himalayas, the Sivalik Hills and north of the Indo-Gangetic Plain.
Nepali languageNepali (Devanagari: नेपाली) is the official and most-widely spoken language of Nepal, where it also serves as a lingua franca. It is an Indo-Aryan language, belonging to the Indo-Iranian branch within the Indo-European language family, native to the Himalayan region of South Asia. Nepali has official status in the Indian state of Sikkim and in the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration, a semi-autonomous region of West Bengal, where it is the majority language.
Bheri RiverThe Bheri River is a major tributary of the Karnali River draining the western Dhaulagiri range in western Nepal. It has three important upper tributaries. Sani Bheri River drains southern slopes of this range while Thuli Bheri River drains northern slopes. Another tributary Uttar Ganga drains Dhorpatan Valley to the south of the Dhaulagiris. Downstream, the Bheri flows through Surkhet Valley before joining the Karnali River in the Mahabharat Range or Lesser Himalaya.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.