Gitanagar | |
Other Name: | Geetanagar |
Native Name: | गीतानगर |
Settlement Type: | Village development committee |
Mapsize: | 300px |
Pushpin Map: | Nepal |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Nepal |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Nepal |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Bagmati Province |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Chitwan District |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Total: | 13,929 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Timezone: | Nepal Time |
Utc Offset: | +5:45 |
Coordinates: | 27.61°N 84.4°W |
Gitanagar was a former village development committee in Chitwan District in Narayani zone of Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 13,929 people (6,553 male; 7,376 female) living in 3,375 individual households.[1]
The town was named after "Geeta Rani" during the Rapti Land Distribution Project which occurred in the early 1950s. Gitanagar was divided into nine wards. Wards in Gitanagar include Uzzolnagar,Prithibinagar,Champanagar, Devnagar, Amarbasti, Kesharbhag, Geetangar, Parasnagar, and Indrapuri. Currently Gitanagar lies inside Bharatpur Metropolitan city ward number 6.