Hetauda

Hetauda is a small town and municipality and seat of Makwanpur District in the Narayani Zone of southern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 53,836 people living in 10,420 individual households.

It is 132 km from the capital Kathmandu via the old

Tribhuvan Highway

. There are now two alternate roads that are less than 80 km. They are, however, not black topped yet. The city is enclosed by three rivers, the Rapti to the west, the Samari to the north and the to the south. It is one the important industrial regions of Nepal. The settlement could have started due to its location at the meeting point of two major highways -

East-West Highway

and

Tribhuvan Highway