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 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".