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Terhathum District, a part of Kosi Zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia. The district, with Myanglung as its district headquarters, covers an area of 679 km² and has a population (2001) of 113,111. The word Tehrathum is constructed from thirteen (tehra) and thum (castle or fort). The town supposedly is the site of one of a series of guard posts once protecting the territory of the Limbus (Limbuwan). Terathum district headquarters is also known as Myanglung, or Myanglung Bazar. Myanglung is onomatopoeic for the sound of a cat meowing in Limbu language and refers to an old tradition of a resident cat in the town. Word "Myang" means cat and "Lung" means stone or mountain in Kirat Limbu language, there is still a stone located in Myanglung bazaar which stone is believed to be pawed by the cat.
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