Itahari

Itahari
  • Country: Nepal
  • City: Itahari
  • Population: 198,098
  • Area: 94 km2
Hem Karna Poudel

Mayor: Hem Karna Poudel

Hem Karna Poudel is Nepalese politician, belonging to Nepali Congress Party. Poudel is the current mayor of Itahari Sub-Metropolitan City.

Itahari is a sub-metropolitan city in the Sunsari District of Koshi Province of Nepal. Itahari City has grown as an important business hub of eastern Nepal. It is the second most populous city in Eastern Nepal after Biratnagar. Situated at a distance of 25 kilometres north of the provincial capital of Biratnagar, 16 kilometres south of Dharan and 92 kilometres west of Kakarbhitta, Itahari serves as a junction point of the east-west Mahendra Highway and the north–south Koshi Highway. Itahari has an estimated city population of 1,98,098 living in 40,207 households as per 2021 Nepal census.