Birgunjとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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Birgunj

1. A city in Parsa district, Madhesh, Nepal.
   • 2015 October 15, Donatella Lorch, “Snaking Lines Grow as Nepal Confronts Fuel Shortage”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on October 16, 2015, Asia Pacific‎:

     A bit more fuel is coming in from India than at the start of the crisis. Some tankers cross the border every day, enough to deliver the 1.3 gallons of fuel per motorcycle, 2.6 gallons per car and 5.3 gallons per truck that gas stations are permitted to sell. But that is far from enough to satisfy the thousands who wait in line for days. And one crossing remains sealed — at Birgunj, the biggest and most critical border town, which acts as a funnel for imports from the Indian port of Kolkata, including the vast majority of Nepal’s fuel.