Rautahat District

Rautahat District रौतहट जिल्ला
District
Nunthar Shiva Mandir, Paurai
Rautahat District (dark yellow) in Madhesh Province
Country	Nepal
Region	Mithila
Province	Madhesh
Established	During Rana regime
Headquarter	Gaur
Local bodies	List Municipality: Baudhimai Municipality Brindaban Municipality Chandrapur Municipality Dewahi Gonahi Municipality Gadhimai Municipality Garuda Municipality Gaur Municipality Gujara Municipality Ishanath Municipality Katahariya Municipality Madhav Narayan Municipality Maulapur Municipality Paroha Municipality Phatuwa Bijayapur Municipality Rajdevi Municipality Rajpur Municipality Rural Municipality: Durga Bhagwati Rural Municipality Yamunamai Rural Municipality
Government
• Type	District Coordination
• Body	Rautahat DCC
• Chief	Ramayodhya Ray Yadav
• Deputy Chief	Mahesh Baitha
Area
• Total	1,126 km2 (435 sq mi)
Population  (2011)
• Total	686,723
• Density	610/km2 (1,600/sq mi)
Time zone
Kathmandu	UTC+05:45 (NPT)
Main Languages	Bajjika, Urdu, Nēpālī
Website	dccrautahat.gov.np

Rautahat District (Nepali: रौतहट जिल्लाListen^ⓘ), a part of Madhesh Province, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. The district headquarter is Gaur, including municipalities like Katahariya, Garuda, Chandrapur, Paroha, covers an area of 1,126 km² and had a population of 545,132 in 2001 and 686,722 in 2011. This district has a total of 2 VDCs and 16 municipalities. Among other districts, Rautahat has the largest percent of Muslims in Nepal, about 22.4% (census 2021).^[1] The most densely populated village in Rautahat district, Bairiya (बैरिया), is primarily Muslim, but a majority of people in the district are Hindu. Sri Ram Sugar Mill is the only sugar mill located in Garuda municipality. The well known shiva temple located in Shivnagar, which is looked after by Sah and Jha family. The historical temple of Goddess Durga is in Matsari.Every year, the temple welcomes millions of devotees from different parts of Nepal and India as well on the occasion of Navaratri. Late Shri Gulab Narayan Jha, the first person to represent Madhesis^{[what language is this?]} in politics, was permanent resident of this village. There is a place called Najarpur in Chandrapur where whole village is vegetarian. They are not even allowed to buy or sell any alcoholic beverages and buying and selling of tobacco products is also prohibited.

There is a place called Katahariya which lies in Katahariya Municipality itself. It is famous for katiya meat. Katiya is an earthen pot in which mainly goat meat is cooked with the help of charcoal.

Nunthar is a famous place for picnic and there is a temple of lord shiva which is located in Paurai Bagmati, Rautahat.

Rautahat district is rich in natural resources. There are varieties of trees and varieties of medicinal herbs in the forest of Rautahat. There are dense forest with varieties of wild animals in the forest of Rautahat, including cheetahs, tigers, elephants, varieties of snakes, etc. There are also varieties of birds in the forests of Rautahat, including doves, hornbills, parrots, pigeons, cuckoos, sparrows, crows, and many more.