page_title: Itahari
hierarchical_section_title: Itahari
caption_attribution_description: English: Itahari
context_page_description: Itahari is a sub-metropolitan city in the Sunsari District of Province No. 1 of Nepal. Itahari is also counted as one of the biggest cities of Nepal. Situated at a distance of 25 kilometres north of the provincial capital of Biratnagar, 16 kilometres south of Dharan and 92 kilometres west of Kakarbhitta, Itahari serves as a junction point of the east-west Mahendra highway and the north-south Koshi highway.
  According to the Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development, Itahari has an area of 93.78 square kilometres with 140,517 people living in 33,794 individual households as of Census of Nepal 2011. The town is divided into a total of 20 wards.
  The municipality was established in 1997 and became a sub-metro in 2014 after merging the VDCs of Khanar, Ekamba, Pakali and Hansposa.
context_section_description: Itahari (In Devanāgarī: ईटहरी) is a sub-metropolitan city in the Sunsari District of Province No. 1 of Nepal. Itahari is also counted as one of the biggest cities of Nepal. Situated at a distance of 25 kilometres north of the provincial capital of Biratnagar, 16 kilometres south of Dharan and 92 kilometres west of Kakarbhitta, Itahari serves as a junction point of the east-west Mahendra highway and the north-south Koshi highway.
  According to the Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development, Itahari has an area of 93.78 square kilometres (36.21 sq mi) with 140,517 people living in 33,794 individual households as of Census of Nepal 2011. The town is divided into a total of 20 wards.
  The municipality was established in 1997 and became a sub-metro in 2014 after merging the VDCs of Khanar, Ekamba, Pakali and Hansposa.
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