Mechinagar

Development region

Mechinagar is a city in Nepal. She had 2011 57.545 inhabitants in the census of the year.

Geography

Mechinagar lies in Jhapa District in the far east of Nepal, near the border with the Indian states of West Bengal and Bihar. The district lies in the development Eastern Region.

The city was created by the merger of the main towns Kakarbhitta (border crossing to India ) and Dhulabari ( trade and supply center of the city) with a large number of villages and small settlements. Mechinagar is part of the Management Zone ( " Anchal " ) Mechi. Geographically Mechinagar belongs to the landscape of the Terai, which is situated at the lowest, to the Gangetic Plain that part of the Himalayan state. The area is dominated by the border river Mechi. The town 12 kilometers south to Bhadrapur has benefited with the airfield Chandragadhi a high priority for the infrastructure and tourist development of the border region of the ostnepalesischen also Mechinagar.

History

The area on the eastern border of Nepal is located in a densely populated region of the country. The eastern region of Nepal has however been hit hard in the recent past ( for example, in September 2008) of flood affected in these natural disasters numerous places were wiped out.

In the surroundings of the town Kakadvitta is since 1991 one of the most significant refugee camps of displaced from the southern provinces of the neighboring country Bhutan minorities. The situation of these refugees is estimated by UNHCR to be dramatic, it came at the Mechin Bridge in the no man's land between Nepal and India to a Sitzblokade and riots with at least two dead. Meanwhile, could be resettled in other Asian countries by an auxiliary program of the UNHCR 20,000 people.