SHANTINAGAR was a Village Development Committee, until it became municipality

Municipality

A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 in Sunsari District

Sunsari District

Sunsari District of 625,633.The area was originally part of Morang but became its own district in 1962 when Nepal was divided into 14 zones and 75 districts....

 in the Kosi Zone

Kosi Zone

Koshi Zone Koshi Zone is divided into six districts:*Bhojpur District*Dhankuta District*Morang District*Sankhuwasabha District*Sunsari District*Terhathum District-See also:*Zones of Nepal*Regions of Nepal*Districts of Nepal...

 of south-eastern Nepal

Nepal

Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...

. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census

1991 Nepal census

The 1991 Nepal census was a widespread national census conducted by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics.Working with Nepal's Village Development Committees at a district level,...

 it had a population of 9351.

Shantinagar, it comes under ITAHARI

Itahari

Itahari is a town and municipality in Sunsari District in the Koshi Zone of south-eastern Nepal. It is located at the main transportation junction of eastern Nepal. It is the center of the west-east Mahendra Highway and south-north Koshi Highway and thus is a town of emerging importance...

 municipality, ward no is 2. Shantinagar has some beautiful places like, budha subba temple, taal-talaiya, etc. The largest forest of Nepal, Char Koshe Jhadi, touches this place. The beautiful forest has contributed to the beauty of Shantinagar. Shera Khola flows through this place. Some of the Chowks in Shantinagar are Devithan, Namuna Tole, Bhulke Chowk, Jogi Dagar, Shiva Chowk, Katar Chowk, etc.