Menhdawal is a town and a Nagar Panchayat in Sant Kabir Nagar District in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.Menhdawal is Main Town for the Menhdawal Mandal and also Mandal head. Menhdawal is 33.4 km far from its District Main City Khalilabad and 219 km far from its State Main City Lucknow. Near By villages of this village with distance are Barakhal (2 k.m.), Bandumar (5 k.m.), Khalilabad (24.8 k.m.), Pakhuapar (27 k.m.), Chakdahi(28.1 k.m.). Nearest Towns are Menhdawal (4 k.m.), Khalilabad (25.5 k.m.), Pauli (49.9 k.m.).
Menhdawal, Barakhal, Amar Dobha, Aurahi, Bandumar, Bankasia, Bankata, Harna, Raksha are the villages along with this village in the same Menhdawal Mandal .
As of 2001 India, Mehdawal had a population of 24,683. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Mehdawal has an average literacy rate of 48%, lower than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 57%, and female literacy is 37%. In Mehdawal, 18% of the population is under 6 years of age.
Sant kabir Nagar district was created on September 5,1997 from district Basti headquarter at Tahsil Khalilabad including 131 villages from tahsil Basti, and 161 from tahsil Bansi of district Siddharth Nagar. The district lies among Gorakhpur in the east, Basti in the west, Siddharth Nagar in the north and Ambedkar Nagar in the south.
