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2 unusual facts about Koshi


Kikuchi Medical Prison

was a prison in Koshi City, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, where criminals with leprosy were imprisoned between 1953 and 1996.

Triyuga

The Koshi Island wild life reserve is inside a big Island of Koshi River, which is the store of the wild water buffalo (called Arna) in Nepal.


Bhimnagar, Supaul

Bhimnagar is on India's northern border with Sunsari District, Koshi Zone, Nepal with a border crossing to Setobandha village and the (east-west) Mahendra Highway, plus a customs checkpoint for goods.

Honorific speech in Japanese

There is also a rarer prefix mi- (kun'yomi), which is mostly used in words related to gods and the emperor, such as mi-koshi (御輿, "portable shrine" in Shinto) and mi-na (御名, "the Holy Name" in Christianity).

Revolutionary Communist Organising Committee

The group had its origins in the faction led by Bharat Mohan Adhikari in the early 1970s, which was formed by a section of the Eastern Koshi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Nepal (which had practically separated itself from the mother party and functioned in an autonomous manner) and a small splinter section of the Gandaki-based Marxist-Leninist Revolutionary Communist Party.

Vajji

On the east, its territory was probably extended up to the forests along the banks of the rivers, Koshi and Mahananda.


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