Sugauli, Bihar

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Sugauli
City
Sagauli
Nickname:  City of sugauli treaty
Sugauli Location in Bihar, India
Coordinates: 26°47′N 84°44′E / 26.783°N 84.733°E / 26.783; 84.733
Country	India
State	Bihar
District	Purvi Champaran
Founded by	Guru Gajraj Mishra
Government
• Type	Nagar panchayat
• Body	Nagar panchayat Sugauli
Area
• Urban	19.25 km2 (7.43 sq mi)
• Rural	149.46 km2 (57.71 sq mi)
Elevation	75 m (246 ft)
Population  (2011)
• Urban	38,815
• Rural	191,992
Languages
• Official	Bhojpuri, Hindi
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
ISO 3166 code	IN-BR
Vehicle registration	BR05
Lok Sabha constituency	Paschim Champaran
Vidhan Sabha constituency	Sugauli
Website	eastchamparan.bih.nic.in

Sugauli is a city and a notified area in East Champaran district in the Indian state of Bihar. Best known for Treaty of Sagauli, 1816 between the British and Gurkhas and role played in the Satyagraha Movement of Mahatma Gandhi, it is also the setting for Rudyard Kipling's story "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" (spelled as "Segowlee" in said story), and the place where a treaty was signed with Nepal in 1816.