Nigalihawa is a village development committee in Kapilvastu District in the Lumbini Zone of southern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census, it had a population of 7564 people living in 1231 individual households.
There are numerous historical Buddhist pilgrimage sites in Nepal.
Lumbini is the place where Queen Mayadevi gave birth to Siddhartha Gautama in 563 BCE. .