Bardiya District, one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, is part of Bheri Zone and is headquartered at the city of Gularia. The 14 administrative zones (अञ्चल of Nepal are subdivided into 75 districts (जिल्ला Bheri zone (भेरी अञ्चल is one of the fourteen zones of Nepal. Gularia is a Town and capital of Bardiya District in the Bheri Zone of south-western Nepal. The district covers an area of 2,025 km² and according to the 2001 census the population was 382,649. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar.
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Bardiya lies in Bheri zone in the mid western region of Nepal. It covers 2025 square kilometers and lies west of Banke district, south of Surkhet district, east of Kailai district. Banke District (बाँके जिल्ला a part of Bheri zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a Landlocked Surkhet District, a part of Bheri Zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a Landlocked country of South Asia. To the south lies Uttar Pradesh in India. Uttar Pradesh (उत्तर प्रदेश اتر پردیش pronounced, Translation: Northern Province) referred to as '''U
It is fertile plain land covered with agricultural land and forest. Agriculture refers to the production of goods through the growing of plants and fungi and the raising of domesticated Animals The study of agriculture A forest is an area with a high density of Trees There are many definitions of a forest based on various criteria The majority of the people living in this district are farmers. The district headquarters, Gularia lies on the Babai River. The Karnali, one of the largest rivers of Nepal, divides into many branches when it reaches the plain and flows through Bardiya. The western branch of the Karnali forms the boundary between Bardiya and Kailali districts. The eastern branch of the Karnali is called the Geruwa. The endangered Gangetic dolphin was often seen in its waters but dolphin population in the rivers of Bardiya have dwindled sharply in recent years. The Ganges River Dolphin ( Platanista gangetica gangetica) and Indus River Dolphin ( Platanista gangetica minor) are two sub-species of freshwater
Bardiya was part of Nepal before the Sugauli Treaty with the British East India Company, through which Nepal lost the territory. The Sugauli Treaty (also spelled Segowlee and Segqulee) was signed on December 2, 1815 and ratified by March 4, 1816 The Honourable East India Company ( HEIC) referred to most commonly as the East India Company, also historically and colloquially as John Company, or It was returned to Nepal along with Banke, Kailali and Kanchanpur at the time of Jang Bahadur Rana. Jung Bahadur (or Jang Bahadur) GCB, GCSI, ( June 18, 1816, Kathmandu, Nepal - February 25, 1877 In the early twentieth century, Bardiya was covered with forest and was sparsely populated with Indigenoustribal people called Tharus. Dang and Deukhuri valleys of Dang district had very large Tharu population at that time. Dang (also known as The Dangs) is an administrative District in the state of Gujarat in India. However, as the Nepali-speaking peoples from the hills started migrating towards Dang valley, Tharus were displaced and moved westward into Banke, Bardiya, Kailali and Kanchanpur. Nepali is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Nepal, Bhutan, and some parts of India and Myanmar (Burma Kanchanpur District, a part of Mahakali Zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal. Later on, Nepali-speaking hill people also migrated into Bardiya. At present, thr majority of people living in Bardiya are Dangora Tharus. They have their own language. Sonaha, also tribals of Bardiya, who live near by the Karnali River, live by extracting gold from the sands of the river. Karnali or Ghaghara (also spelled the Gogra Ghaghra or Ghagra Nepali Kauriala or Manchu or the Karnali literally means ' holy water from the sacred mountain' (Karnali also means “Turquoise