Kalikot District ( ne, कालीकोट जिल्ला ), a part of
Karnali province
Karnali Province ( ne, कर्णाली प्रदेश) is one of the seven federal provinces of Nepal formed by the new constitution which was adopted on 20 September 2015. The total area of the province is covering 18.97% of the cou ...
, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. The district, with Manma as its district headquarters, covers an area of , had a population of 105,580 in 2001 and 136,948 in 2011. In September 2005, in a bid to encourage a change in social attitudes, the government announced that it would provide rice to any family that had recently had a girl born.
Geography and Climate
Demographics
At the time of the 2011 Nepal census, Kalikot District had a population of 136,948. Of these, 99.5% spoke Nepali as their first language.
The largest ethnic group is the Khas Chhetri which are 28.8% of the total population, The second largest group is
Thakuri
Thakuri ( ne, ठकुरी) is a sub-caste of Khasas tribes in Nepal. It consists of the historical ruling class, and is made up of the descendants of the Great Khasa Malla kingdom rulers of the Baisi and Chaubisi principalities. The former ...
which is 25.1% of the total population. 17.7% are
Kami
are the deities, divinities, spirits, phenomena or "holy powers", that are venerated in the Shinto religion. They can be elements of the landscape, forces of nature, or beings and the qualities that these beings express; they can also be the sp ...
Damai
Damai ( ne, दमाइँ) is an occupational caste found among Khas people. They comprise 45 subgroups. Their surnames take after the subgroup they belong to. People belonging to this caste are traditionally tailors and musicians. They are ade ...
and 3.2% Sarki.2011 Nepal Census, Social Characteristics Tables /ref>
Administration
The district consists of nine
municipalities
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
Chilkhaya
Chilkhaya is a village development committee in Kalikot District in the Karnali Zone of north-western Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census
The 1991 Nepal census was a widespread national census conducted by the Nepal Central Bureau of S ...
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Daha Daha or DAHA may refer to: Places India
* Daha, Karnal, a village in Karnal district of Haryana state of India
* Daha, Bagpat, India
Nepal
* Daha, Bheri, Nepal
* Daha, Karnali, Nepal
Other places
* Daha (modern Kediri, East Java), the ...
Gela
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Kotbada
Kotbada is a village development committee in Kalikot District in the Karnali Zone of north-western Nepal. At the time of the 2001 Nepal census The 2001 Nepal census ( ne, राष्ट्रिय जनगणना २०५८) was conducte ...
Lalu Lalu may refer to:
People
* Lalu Muhammad Zohri, an Indonesian sprinter
*Lalu Prasad Yadav, an Indian politician
* Shahidul Islam (Lalu), the youngest Bangladeshi to receive the Bir Pratik award
* Polly Bemis, born Lalu Nathoy, a Chinese American p ...
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Malkot
Malkot is a village of Abbottabad District in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Until the local government reforms of 2000 it was a Union Councils of the district.Manma
* Mehalmudi
* Mugraha
* Mumra
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Nanikot
Nanikot is a village development committee in Kalikot District in the Karnali Zone of north-western Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census
The 1991 Nepal census was a widespread national census conducted by the Nepal Central Bureau of Sta ...
Rupsa
Rupsa is a Village development committee (Nepal), village development committee in Kalikot District in the Karnali Zone of north-western Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2659 people living in 423 individual hous ...
Zones of Nepal
Until the establishment of seven new provinces in 2015, Nepal was divided into 14 administrative zones (Nepali: अञ्चल; ''anchal'') and 77 districts (Nepali: जिल्ला; ''jillā''). The 14 administrative zones were grouped i ...