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Saharghat, Madhubani

village in Bihar, India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ123468453 ↗
Source-derived summary

Saharghat is a semi urban panchayat in Madhwapur block of Madhubani district in Mithila region of Bihar, India. It is connected by National Highway 104 and State Highway 75 with different parts of the major cities in the state of Bihar, India and Madhesh Pradesh province of Nepal. The village comes under Harlakhi Assembly constituency and Madhubani Lok Sabha constituency.

Demographics

In the population census 2011, the name of the village is recorded as Sahar. According to the population census 2011, the total population of the village is 14368. Out of the total population, 7463 are males and 6905 are females. The total number of households in the village is 2833.

Geography

Saharghat is around 40 km from the district headquarters town. It is approximately 10 km from the headquarters of Madhwapur block. It is located near the Indo Nepal border sub custum office Pipraun.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Saharghat, Madhubani” as village in Bihar, India. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Saharghat, Madhubani and village.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Saharghat, Madhubani and village providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Saharghat, Madhubani”, the useful work is to connect “village in Bihar, India” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q123468453. Authority coordinates are 26.541, 85.859. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Saharghat, Madhubani” 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.