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Mahendranagar is a city and municipality in far western Nepal, six kilometres from the border of India and the Mahakali River. It is the headquarters of the district of Kanchanpur in the Mahakali Zone, which is inhabited by people of various races including the indegenous Tharu people.
Mahendranagar is the 8th largest city in Nepal after the cities of Kathmandu, Pokhara, Lalitpur, Biratnagar, Dharan, Birganj and Bharatpur. It is 5 km East of the Indian border and 700 km West of Kathmandu. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 62,050.
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