Bettiah

Bettiah
City
Anticlockwise from top left -Bettiah Raj mahal Saheed Park, Sagar pokhra and Shiv Mandir, Supriya Cinema road, Bettiah auditorium and Maharaja Stadium, Gandhi statue at Hariwatika Chowk, Aeria view of Station chowk.
Anticlockwise from top left -Bettiah Raj mahal Saheed Park, Sagar pokhra and Shiv Mandir, Supriya Cinema road, Bettiah auditorium and Maharaja Stadium, Gandhi statue at Hariwatika Chowk, Aeria view of Station chowk.
Bettiah is located in Bihar
Bettiah
Bettiah
Location in Bihar, India
Coordinates: 26°48′05″N 84°30′10″E / 26.80139°N 84.50278°E / 26.80139; 84.50278
Country India
StateBihar
DistrictWest Champaran
Founded byGangeshwar Dev
Government
 • TypeMayor-council
 • BodyBettiah Municipal corporation
Area
 • City30 km2 (10 sq mi)
 • Urban
64 km2 (25 sq mi)
Elevation
65 m (213 ft)
Population
 (2020)as estimated[1]
 • Rank14th(as in 2011)in Bihar
 • Urban
414,453
Language
 • OfficialHindi[2]
 • Additional officialUrdu[2]
 • RegionalBhojpuri[3]
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN
845438
BTH06254
ISO 3166 codeIN-BR
Vehicle registrationBR-22
Sex ratio53% male : 47% female ♂/♀
Lok Sabha constituencyPaschim Champaran/was before Bettiah
Vidhan Sabha constituencyBettiah
Websitewestchamparan.bih.nic.in

Bettiah is a city and the administrative headquarters of West Champaran district (Tirhut Division)[4] - (Tirhut). It is near the Indo-Nepal border, 225 kilometres (140 mi) northwest of Patna, in the state of Bihar, India.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Upgradation was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b "52nd Report of the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities in India" (PDF). nclm.nic.in. Ministry of Minority Affairs. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 May 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  3. ^ "Bhojpuri". Ethnologue. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
  4. ^ "Tirhut Division". tirhut-muzaffarpur.bih.nic.in. Archived from the original on 16 March 2015.