Administrative divisions of Nepal

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The administrative divisions of Nepal (

wards. Before 2015, instead of provinces, Nepal was divided into developmental regions and administrative zones
.

Fulfilling the requirement of the

district coordination committees
(DCC) which have much less power than the DDCs. At present there are 6 metropolitan cities, 11 sub-metropolitan cities, 276 municipalities, and 460 rural municipalities.

Federal Government
7 Provinces (e.g. Gandaki)
77
Districts (e.g. Parbat
)
6
Rural Municipalities (e.g. Mahashila
)

Provinces

Main article: Provinces of Nepal
7 Provinces of Nepal

Nepal is composed of seven provinces.[3] They are defined by schedule 4 of the new constitution, by grouping together the existing districts. Two districts however are split in two parts, ending up in two different provinces.

Province Capital Governor Chief Minister Districts Area Pop.
(2021) 		Density
(/km2) 		HDI
(2019) 		GDP per capita (USD; 2021) Map
Koshi Province
 Biratnagar Parshuram Khapung Kedar Karki 14 25,905 km2 4,972,021 192 0.597 1,298
Madhesh Province Janakpur Hari Shankar Mishra Saroj Kumar Yadav 8 9,661 km2 6,126,288 767 0.538 882
Bagmati Province Hetauda Yadav Chandra Sharma Shalikram Jamkattel 13 20,300 km2 6,084,042 300 0.673 2,640
Gandaki Province Pokhara Prithvi Man Gurung Khagraj Adhikari 11 21,504 km2 2,479,745 116 0.631 1,348
Lumbini Province Deukhuri Amik Sherchan Jokh Bahadur Mahara 12 22,288 km2 5,124,225 230 0.583 1,209
Karnali Province Birendranagar Tilak Pariyar Yamlal Kandel 10 27,984 km2 1,694,889 61 0.568 1043
Sudurpashchim Province Godawari Ganga Prasad Yadav Kamal Bahadur Shah 9 19,915 km2 2,711,270 136 0.579 1135
Nepal Kathmandu President
Ram Chandra Poudel
Puspa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’
 77 147,641 km2 30,192,480 198 0.602 1,372

Districts

Main article:
Districts of Nepal
77 Districts of Nepal

Provinces are further divided into districts, of which there are 77 (as of 2017).

District Coordination Committee
.

Municipalities of Nepal

Urban municipalities

Further information: List of cities in Nepal

Municipalities are places having at least some minimum criteria of population and infrastructure and declared as a municipality by the government. There are 293 municipalities in Nepal.

Urban municipalities are categorized into 3 levels:

  • Metropolitan city (Mahanagarpalika)
  • Sub metropolitan city (Upmahanagarpalika)
  • Municipality (Nagarpalikas)

There are six metropolitan cities; the capital city

Birgunj
. There are 11 sub-metropolitan cities and 276 municipalities.

 
Largest cities or towns in Nepal
Central Bureau of Statistics 2021 Nepal census[5]
Rank Name Province Pop. Rank Name Province Pop.
Kathmandu
Kathmandu
Pokhara
Pokhara 		1 Kathmandu Bagmati 845,767 11 Janakpur Madhesh 195,438 Bharatpur
Bharatpur
Lalitpur
Lalitpur
2 Pokhara Gandaki 518,452 12 Butwal Lumbini 195,054
3 Bharatpur Bagmati 369,377 13 Tulsipur Lumbini 180,734
4 Lalitpur Bagmati 299,843 14 Budhanilkantha Bagmati 179,688
5 Birgunj Madhesh 268,273 15 Dharan Koshi 173,096
6 Biratnagar Koshi 244,750 16 Nepalgunj Lumbini 166,258
7 Dhangadhi Sudurpashchim 204,788 17 Birendranagar Karnali 154,886
8 Ghorahi Lumbini 201,079 18 Tarakeshwar Bagmati 151,508
9 Itahari Koshi 198,098 19
Gokarneshwar
 Bagmati 151,200
10 Hetauda Bagmati 195,951 20 Tilottama Lumbini 149,657

Rural municipalities

Further information:
Gaunpalika

Rural municipalities (Gaunpalikas) were established in 2017, replacing the village development committees (VDCs). The main purpose of a gaunpalika resembles that of a VDC, but it has more rights on collection of royalty and taxes and has a higher annual budget than the VDC. Several VDCs were usually combined into each new gaupalika. There are 460 gaunpalikas in Nepal.

See also

Notes

References

  1. ^ "New local level structure comes into effect from today". www.thehimalayantimes.com. The Himalayan Times. 10 March 2017. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  2. Kantipur Publication. 11 August 2017. Archived from the original
    on 11 August 2017. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  3. ^ "Nepal divided by new constitution - Foreign Policy News". foreignpolicynews.org. Retrieved 2018-04-07.
  4. ^ "There will be 77 districts in the country: Minister Thapa". My Republica. Retrieved 2018-04-07.
  5. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20220206104652/https://cbs.gov.np/wp-content/upLoads/2022/01/Final%20Preliminary%20Report%20of%20Census%202021%20Newfinal.pdf
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