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Sonepur Cattle Fair

Cattle fair held on Kartik Poornima in Sonepur, Bihar

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 5, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Sonepur Cattle Fair is held on Kartik Poornima over the months of November and December in Sonepur, Bihar, on the confluence of river Ganges (Gandak). It is also known as Harihar Kshetra Mela. To date, it is the biggest cattle fair in Asia and usually lasts from between fifteen days to one month in duration. The Sonepur Cattle Fair used to attract traders from places as far away as Tamil Nadu and Delhi. In 2018, the Fair started on the 21st of November and continued until the 22nd of December.

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“Sonepur Cattle Fair” enters the record as cattle fair held on Kartik Poornima in Sonepur, Bihar. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sonepur, Cattle and Fair can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sonepur Cattle Fair” 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.