Mehsi, Bihar

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Mehsi Maheshi or Mesi
City
V.I.P Rd, Chowk Bazar
Mehsi Location in Bihar, India Show map of Bihar Mehsi Mehsi (India) Show map of India Mehsi Mehsi (Asia) Show map of Asia
Coordinates: 26°21′N 85°07′E / 26.35°N 85.11°E / 26.35; 85.11
Country	India
State	Bihar
Division	Tirhut
Established	1216 AD
Founded by	Mirja Halim Shah(R.A)
Nagar Palika	Kaswa Mehsi
Government
• Type	Nagar Panchayat
• Body	Ward - (15)
• Rank	42.68km
Elevation	64 m (210 ft)
Population  (2024)
• Total	~210,101
Demonym	'mehsiwashi
Languages
• Official	Bhojpuri, Urdu, Hindi, English
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	845426,[1] 845406, 843111
Telephone code	06257
ISO 3166 code	IN-BR
Vehicle registration	BR05
Neighbors	Kaswa Mehsi (Office), Rajepur, Bakhari, Ojhilpur, Hardo Patti
Avg. summer temperature	42 °C (108 °F)
Lok Sabha constituency	3. Purvi Champaran
Vidhan Sabha constituency	Pipra, Mehsi
Website	eastchamparan.bih.nic.in

Mehsi is a CD Block and Mehsi Nagar Panchayat City and a municipality in the Purvi Champaran district ^{[citation needed]} in the Indian state of Bihar.^[2] It is a part of the Tirhut Division^{[citation needed]}. The town is the entry point of the Purvi Champaran district. There are many smaller factories manufacturing buttons for the clothing Industry, although most of the population depends upon commercial business and Business agriculture.^[3]

Around 1216–1225 during the time of the Delhi Sultanate, a famous Sunni donor Mirza Haleem named Mehsi after his follower Mahesh Ray. Which is the grave of Data Mirza Haleem in the town Mehsi Bihar state of India.

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Mehsi is located Area (2020) 154.12 km² Population (2020) 207856 Population Density 1348 people per km² Male Population 108041 Female Population 99815

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Mehsi industry include shell buttons^[3] and harvesting of litchi and mango fruits. Mehsi is the major producer of these fruits in India.^{[citation needed]}

The perennial Budhi Gandak river flows near the town of Mehsi which is a tributary of the Ganga river.^[4]

Mehsi town, through railway, is directly connected to the major Indian cities like – Patna, Varanasi, Haridwar, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Allahabad, Kolkata, New Delhi, Mumbai, Bhopal, Amritsar, Guwahati, Lucknow, Gorakhpur, Kanpur, Ranchi, Raipur, Nagpur, Hyderabad etc. Mehsi railway station is situated on Muzaffarpur–Gorakhpur main line under the Samastipur railway division of East Central Railway zone.^[5] It is also the closest railway station to Kesaria Stupa, a Buddhist pilgrimage site.

The nearest airport is Darbhanga airport.^[2] and Patna Airport.

India's 2nd Longest National Highway, NH -27, passes through Mehsi.

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