Gauriganj, Nepal

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{{Infobox settlement

| name = Gauriganj

| official_name = Gauriganj Gaunpalika

| native_name = {{lang|ne|गौरिगञ्ज}}

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| pushpin_map_caption = Location of Biratnagar in Province No. 1

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| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = {{NPL}}

| subdivision_type1 = Province

| subdivision_type2 = District

| subdivision_name1 = Province No. 1

| subdivision_name2 = Jhapa

| established_title = Incorporated

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| government_type = Local Government

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| leader_title = Chairperson

| leader_name = Fulwati Rajbanshi (NC){{cite web|title=गौरिगञ्ज गाउँपालिका गृहपृष्ठ|url=http://www.gaurigunjmun.gov.np/|publisher=गौरिगञ्ज गाउँपालिका|access-date=2018-10-28|archive-date=2021-01-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123083702/https://gaurigunjmun.gov.np/|url-status=live}}

| leader_title1 = Vice-Chairperson

| leader_name1 = Pujan Neupane (CON-UML)

| area_footnotes =

| area_total_km2 = 101.35

| elevation_footnotes =

| elevation_m = 80

| population_total = 36145

| population_as_of = 2021{{cite web |url=https://cbs.gov.np/wp-content/upLoads/2022/01/Final%20Preliminary%20Report%20of%20Census%202021%20Newfinal.pdf |title=Preliminary Report of Census 2021 |website=cbs.gov.np |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220206104652/https://cbs.gov.np/wp-content/upLoads/2022/01/Final%20Preliminary%20Report%20of%20Census%202021%20Newfinal.pdf |archive-date=6 February 2022 |url-status=dead |access-date=24 February 2022}}

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| demographics_type1 = Languages

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| postal_code = 57200

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| website = [https://gaurigunjmun.gov.np/]

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| demographics1_info1 = Nepali

| demographics1_title2 = Local

| demographics1_info2 = Rajbanshi, surjapuri, Hindi

| timezone = NST

| utc_offset = +5:45

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| parts_type = Wards

| parts = 6

| established_title1 = Upgraded to sub-metropolitan city

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Gauriganj ({{langx|ne|गौरिगञ्ज}}) is a village and village development committee in the southwest corner of Jhapa District in the Mechi Zone of southeastern Nepal.{{Cite web|url=http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/nepalcensus/form.php?selection=1 |title=Nepal Census 2001 |work=Nepal's Village Development Committees |publisher=Digital Himalaya |accessdate=24 November 2008 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012163506/http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/nepalcensus/form.php?selection=1 |archivedate=12 October 2008 |url-status=dead }} It is in a flat agricultural district in the extreme southeast of Nepal, between Kadamgachhi, Hukkagachhi and Bhavanipur, only about 3 km from the border with Bihar, India.

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