Sitamarhi district has a history of communal riots dating back to the partition of India.

[7] In 1948, violence broke out in Belsand, following by riots in 1959 over issue of the Mahavir Flag; roughly 50 people, mostly Muslims, were killed.

Further violence occurred around the issue of Durga Mela - these riots began after a false rumour that Muslims had slaughtered a cow, which was eventually found alive.

Another riot in 1959 on the issue of cow slaughter killed 11 people, again mostly Muslims, and destroyed 200 houses.

Sitamarhi district occupies an area of 2,294 square kilometres (886 sq mi),[8] comparatively equivalent to Australia's Groote Eylandt.

[10] The following is a list of Schools in Sitamarhi, Bihar, India National Highway 77 connects the area to the Muzaffarpur district and Patna to the South.

Railway lines connect Sitamarhi to Darbhanga in east, and to Muzaffarpur in the south and to Raxaul in the west.

The Sitamarhi-Bhitthamore Road is important for religious reasons as it connects Janakpur, which houses a 200-year-old Janki Temple with Sitamarhi—considered to be the birth place of Goddess Sita.

According to the 2011 census Sitamarhi district has a population of 3,423,574,[13] roughly equal to the nation of Panama[14] or the US state of Connecticut.