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Mahottari Rural Municipality

rural municipality in Central, Nepal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ60753786 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mahottari (Nepali: महोत्तरी ) is a rural municipality in Mahottari District in Madhes Province of Nepal. Established in 2016, it comprises six sections (wards) created from 6 former VDCs. It occupies an area of 28.08 sq. km with a total population of 27,430. Dilip Kumar Pandey of Terai Madhesh Loktantrik Party is the current chairman of the rural municipality who was elected in the 2022 local elections.

Population

As of 2017, Mahottari hosts a total population of 27,784.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Mahottari Rural Municipality” as rural municipality in Central, Nepal. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 2022, 2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Mahottari, Rural and Municipality can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as rural municipality in Central, Nepal. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q60753786. Authority coordinates are 26.690, 85.810. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2016, 2022 and 2017.

Critical limits

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  2. Expand the search: follow Mahottari Rural Municipality primary sources, Mahottari Rural Municipality archive and Mahottari research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Mahottari Rural Municipality” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.