Mechinagar Municipality
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Mechinagar
मेचीनगर | |
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Country | Nepal |
Zone | Mechi Zone |
District | Jhapa District |
Time zone | UTC+5:45 (Nepal Time) |
Postal code | 57207, 57208 |
Area code | 023 |
Website | mechinagarmun.gov.np |
Mechinagar (Nepali: मेचीनगर) is a municipality in Jhapa District, Mechi Zone, Nepal and is the main entry point from India on Nepal's eastern border. Nepal's custom office is in Kakarvitta (Nepali: काँकडभिट्टा), a section of the municipality.
Mechinagar municipality was created by combining Dhulabari (Nepali: धुलाबारी) and Kankarbhitta and Itabhatta (इटाभट्टा) Village Development Committee.
Mechinagar has two FM radio station Radio Sargam - 88.8 MHz and FM mechi tunes -96.8 MHz . They both are community radio station.
In the 1991 census it had 37.108 inhabitants, in 2001 40.060. The estimate for 2005 is 56.173.