Kathauna

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|name = Kathauna Bazar

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|nickname = Headquarter of Shambhunath Municipality

|settlement_type = Headquarter of Municipality

|motto = Develop as Tourism Center

|image_skyline = Buddha Chowk at Kathauna Bazar.jpg

|image_caption = Buddha Chowk at Kathauna Bazar

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|map_caption = Map of the village development committees in Saptari District

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|subdivision_name1 = Sagarmatha Zone

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|subdivision_name2 = Saptari District

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|government_type = Municipality

|leader_title = Leader

|leader_name =Peshal Sh

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|leader_name1 =Peshal Sah

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|established_date =2072-03-05

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|population_as_of = 1991

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|population_total = 5167

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Kathauna Bazar is a city in Shambhunath Municipality Ward No. 6, in the Saptari district of Nepal. It is 20 km east of Lahan Municipality, and is the central city of Shambhunath Municipality. Shambhunath municipality's head office is located at Kathauna Bazar.{{cite web|url=http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=74336 |title=72 new municipalities announced |publisher=My Republica.com |accessdate=2014-06-10 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140618191026/http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=74336 |archivedate=2014-06-18 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.ekantipur.com/the-kathmandu-post/2014/05/08/news/govt-announces-72-new-municipalities/262559.html|title=Government announces 72 new municipalities|publisher=The Kathmandu Post|accessdate=2014-06-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006084717/http://www.ekantipur.com/the-kathmandu-post/2014/05/08/news/govt-announces-72-new-municipalities/262559.html|archive-date=2014-10-06|url-status=dead}} At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 5167 people, living in 933 individual households.{{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=22 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012163506/http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/nepalcensus/form.php?selection=1 |archivedate=12 October 2008 }}