<sod>'''Madhesh''' is a fertile and humid region of southern [[Nepal]] in the [[Terai]] belt. The indigenous [[Nepalese people]] who have connection to Bihar of India and historically lived there are identified as [[Madhesi people]]. The region's name in [[Urdu]] as referred to by [[Muslims]] is {{Nq|ترای}} ''tarāī'', meaning "lands lying at the foot of a watershed" or "on the banks of a river; low ground flooded with water, valley, basin, marshy ground, marsh, swamp; meadow".<ref>{{cite web |author= Platts, J. T. |year= 1884 |url= http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.2:1:3349.platts |title= A dictionary of Urdu, and English. |publisher= W. H. Allen & Co., London}}</ref><eod>
<sod>'''Madhesh''' is a fertile and humid region of southern [[Nepal]] in the [[Terai]] belt. They have cultural and demographic connection to Bihar of India and historically lived there are identified as [[Madhesi people]]. The region's name in [[Urdu]] as referred to by [[Muslims]] is {{Nq|ترای}} ''tarāī'', meaning "lands lying at the foot of a watershed" or "on the banks of a river; low ground flooded with water, valley, basin, marshy ground, marsh, swamp; meadow".<ref>{{cite web |author= Platts, J. T. |year= 1884 |url= http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.2:1:3349.platts |title= A dictionary of Urdu, and English. |publisher= W. H. Allen & Co., London}}</ref><eod>