East Champaran district


East Champaran is an administrative district in the state of Bihar in India. The district headquarters are located at Motihari.

About District

East Champaran District is functioning from 2 November 1972. The headquarter of district is at Motihari. It is situated at 26o 16' to 27o 1' North latitude and 84o 30' to 85o 16' East longitudes. Nepal makes its northern boundary, Sitamadhi and Sheohar eastern while Muzaffarpur South and with part of Gopalganj bounds it in western side. The name Champaran owes its origin to Champa-aranya or Champkatanys. Champa or Champaka means Magnolia and aranya means forest. Hence, Champaranya means Forest of Magnolia trees. The District comprises an area of 3968.0 km2 with 1344 villages having population of 50,82,868 as per 2011 census. The Administrative set up of the District is decentralized into 6 sub-division, 27 blocks, 27 Circles, 3 Nagar Parishads, 6 Nagar Panchayats and 405 Panchayats. The Buddhist Stupta, Kesaria, Ashokan Pillar, Lauriya, Areraj, Gandhi Memorial, Someshwar Shiv Mandir, Areraj, Orwell's birthplace, Raxaul-Gate way to Nepal.
The district occupies an area of 3969 km2 and has a population of 3,933,636. East Champaran is a part of Tirhut Division. It is currently a part of the Red Corridor. During COVID-19 it's have 5 case. 3 of banjariya block and 1-1 of Areraj block and fenhara block
As of 2011, it is the second most populous district of Bihar, after Patna.

Geography

East Champaran district occupies an area of, comparatively equivalent to Vanuatu's Espiritu Santo.
Gandak, Burhi Gandak and Baghmati are important rivers flowing through this region.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census East Champaran district has a population of 5,099,371, roughly equal to the United Arab Emirates or the US state of Colorado. This gives it a ranking of 21st in India. The district has a population density of. Its population growth rate over the decade 2001–2011 was 29.01%. Purbi Champaran has a sex ratio of 901 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 55.79%.

Sub-divisions

Some Villages:- Dhekahan, Baradih Bairiya, kundwa, Rampur, Karhan, kushhar, Sihorwa, Ranigunj, Chakia, Paharpur, Pipra kothi, Ujjain Lohiyar, Gayghat, Yadavpur etc. There are three Nagar Paris had towns in E. Champaran: Motihari, Raxaul, Dhaka and Ghorasahan. Dhaka and Ghorasahan has emerged as a new town with Dhaka is a second highest costly land after Raxaul.

Languages

At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 92.33% of the population in the district spoke Hindi and 7.33% Urdu as their first language.
Languages include Bhojpuri, a tongue in the Bihari language group with almost 40 000 000 speakers, written in both the Devanagari and Kaithi scripts as well as Urdu language also Urdu.

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