Sankranti Bazar
Encyclopedia
Sankranti Bazar is a village development committee in the Himalayas
of Terhathum District
in the Kosi Zone
of eastern Nepal
. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census
it had a population of 3266 people living in 622 individual households. Once a thriving market town, by 2001 the village had declined because road construction had bypassed them and because of Maoist activity.
Himalayas
The Himalaya Range or Himalaya Mountains Sanskrit: Devanagari: हिमालय, literally "abode of snow"), usually called the Himalayas or Himalaya for short, is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau...
of Terhathum District
Terhathum District
Terhathum District of 113,111. The word Tehrathum is constructed from thirteen and "thum" . This can be spelled as Terathum, Tehrathum or Terhathum. The town supposedly is the site of one of a series of guard posts once protecting the territory of the Limbus...
in the Kosi Zone
Kosi Zone
Koshi Zone Koshi Zone is divided into six districts:*Bhojpur District*Dhankuta District*Morang District*Sankhuwasabha District*Sunsari District*Terhathum District-See also:*Zones of Nepal*Regions of Nepal*Districts of Nepal...
of eastern Nepal
Nepal
Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...
. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census
1991 Nepal census
The 1991 Nepal census was a widespread national census conducted by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics.Working with Nepal's Village Development Committees at a district level,...
it had a population of 3266 people living in 622 individual households. Once a thriving market town, by 2001 the village had declined because road construction had bypassed them and because of Maoist activity.