Terai Region

Terai Region 

Terai region lies from 70m to 600m. In whole Nepal terai region covers about 17% .and 48% of population lives in this region . terai region is also known as greeneryof Nepal . Terai can also be divided into three parts they are : 1) terai 2) Bhabar tract and 3) Inner terai
20 districts of Terai Region are:
   1) Jhapa 6) Kailali 11) Banke 16) Sarlahi
   2) Dhanusha 7) Kanchanpur 12) Rautahat 17) Nawalparasi
   3)Parsa 8) Morang 13) Siraha 18) Bardia
   4) Dang 9) Mahottari 14) Kapilbastu 19) Rupandehi
   5)Saptari 10) Chitwan 15) Sunsari 20) Bara
In complete topographic contrast to the Mountain and Hill regions, the Tarai Region is a lowland tropical and subtropical belt of flat, alluvial land stretching along the Nepal-India border, and paralleling the Hill Region. It is the northern extension of the Gangetic Plain in India, commencing at about 300 meters above sea level and rising to about 1,000 meters at the foot of the Siwalik Range. The Tarai includes several valleys (dun), such as the Surkhet and Dang valleys in western Nepal, and the Rapti Valley (Chitwan) in central Nepal.

The word tarai, a term presumed to be derived from Persian, means "damp," and it appropriately describes the region's humid and hot climate. The region was formed and is fed by three major rivers: the Kosi, the Narayani (India's Gandak River), and the Karnali. A region that in the past contained malaria-infested, thick forests, commonly known as char kose jhari (dense forests approximately twelve kilometers wide), the Tarai was used as a defensive frontier by Nepalese rulers during the period of the British Raj (1858-1947) in India. In 1991 the Tarai served as the country's granary and land resettlement frontier; it became the most coveted internal destination for land-hungry hill peasants.

In terms of both farm and forest lands, the Tarai was becoming Nepal's richest economic region. Overall, Tarai residents enjoyed a greater availability of agricultural land than did other Nepalese because of the area's generally flat terrain, which is drained and nourished by several rivers. Additionally, it has the largest commercially exploitable forests. In the early 1990s, however, the forests were being increasingly destroyed because of growingdemands for timber and agricultural land.