map of my kanchanpur Kanchanpur District ( Nepali : कञ्चनपुर जिल्ला Listen ( help · info ) , a part of Province No. 7 in Terai plain, is one of seventy-five districts of Nepal . The district, with Bhimdatta as its district headquarters, covers an area of 1,610 square kilometres (620 sq mi) and had a population of 134,868 in 2001 and 171,304 in 2011. [1] [2] It is located in southern-west of Nepal. It is bordered with Kailali district in east, Dadeldhura district in north and with modern-day india in south and west. Before the reunification of Nepal by Gorkha King PN Shah , this district was the part of Doti Kingdom. Nepal lost it to the East India Company after Anglo-Nepalese war (1814-1816) between the then Kingdom of Nepal and East India Company followed by territorial concessions of Sugauli Treaty . [3] Later on after treaty of 1860, Nepal recovered this land along with Kailali, Banke and Bardiya .