Nawalparasi District, a part of Lumbini Zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia. The district, with Parasi
as its district headquarters, covers an area of 2,162 km² and has a
population (2001) of 562,870. This district has given birth to many
Nepal's top level people including late Prime Minister Tanka Prasad
Acharya. The mid point of Nepal's east west highway (Mahendra
Highway)lie in this district.
