Chitwan is one of the seventy five district, famous and beautiful district of Nepal. It is the part of the Narayani Zone. It is one of the landlock country of south asia. This district is the weastern part of Narayani Zone with Bharatpur. This is the seventh largest city of nepal is Bharatpur. The Bharatpur is the headquater of this district. The Chitwan district is covers an area of two thausand two hundred and eighteen square kilometer. It had four lakh sevent y two thausand and fourty eight peoples are living by the cencus of 2001. Bharatpur is commericial and service central south Nepal and merger sidtination for higher education, health care and transpotation of the region.
The distrit takes it’s name from the chitwan valley, one of Nepal’s Inner Terai valleys between the mahabharat and siwalik ranges, both considered foothills of the himalayas.
Narayangarh, on the band of the narayani river is the main town with numerous shopping zone where peoples come from all over the district and neighbouring district.
Now there are fourty village development committee and one sub-Metropolitan city bharatpur and a municipality Ratnanagar each of which has more than nine wards or urban areas.
Chitwan is one of the few remaining undisturbed vestiges of the teeai region, which formerly extended over the foothills of Nepal.
Chitwan is famous in Nepal because of its dominant production of mustard from which mustard oil is produced. Thes popularity of the mustard planation in chitwan is attributed to the predominant soil types of theplace. The soil in chitwan is mostly of the types silt. The silty nature of the soil is in turn attributed to the flooding over the ages in the past from the rivers like Gandaki. Chitwan is also profusely spotted with lands with soil type clay which are very good for use as rice fields. Other popular cash crops in the region aremaize and wheat. The soil there is also very good for growing various types of vegetables such as cabbage, potato, carrot etc.
At present Chitwan’s largest business area, Natayangarh is less accessible due to the movement of the main bus terminal due to the previous kings son’s anger with politics of the citizens of the city. This bus terminal is howrver no longer is use following a successful peoples movement in 2006. It is believed that Nepali leftist revolutonary lrader Prachanda spent his childhook and youth in Chitwan. Chitwan is adapting the new community movement south korean modes of development.
Chitwan is a particularly flora and fauna. Nepal’s first national park, the chitwan national park together with the adjacent Parsa wildlife Reserve support a species diversity much higher than any other on the Indian subcontinint. Rare species include bengal tiger, gharial and the world’s second largest population of assian rhinocers, bu also leopards, mugger, crocodile, indian rock python and several species of deer. The protected area are guarded by a battalion of the Nepal army and patrolled by seven anti poaching units das dhunga is a famous place in chitwan the peoples leader Madan Bhandari was killed there in an accident.
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