[4] During the late Vedic period (c. 1100–500 BCE), Kingdom of the Videhas became one of the major political and cultural centers of South Asia, along with Kuru and Pañcāla.

[13] Araria district occupies an area of 2,830 square kilometres (1,090 sq mi),[14] comparatively equivalent to Russia's Zemlya Georga.

who was one of the most influential writers of Modern Hindi literature after Munshi Prem Chand .The famous villages of Araria Gayari and Dehti etc.

Train facility is in the form of broad gauge track and the district have two railway stations.

[17] According to the 2011 census Araria district has a population of 2,811,569,[19] roughly equal to the nation of Jamaica[20] or the US state of Utah.

[19] The district has a population density of992 inhabitants per square kilometre (2,570/sq mi) .

[22] At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 28.71% of the population in the district spoke Urdu, 25.05% Hindi, 20.57% Maithili (including Thati), 2.17% Bengali, 2.10% Kulhaiya, 1.91% Surjapuri and 1.05% Santali as their first language.