Bungal is a municipality located in Bajhang District of Sudurpashchim province of

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. It is surrounded by Darchula District in the west,

Baitadi District Baitadi District ( ), historical name “Bairath” (बैराथ), a part of Sudurpashchim Province, is one of the 77 districts of Nepal. It is a Hill district. Baitadi, with Dasharathchand as its headquarters, covers an area of and has ...

in the south, Surma, Chabispathivera, Durgathali, Kedarseu and Bithadchir in the East and

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touches it from the North. On 10 March 2017

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announced 744 local level units as per the new

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. thus this local level unit came into existence. Total area of the municipality is and total population of the municipality (according to

2011 Nepal census Nepal conducted a widespread national census in 2011 by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics. Working in cooperation with the 58 municipalities and the 3,915 Village Development Committees at a district level, they recorded data from all the m ...

) is 33224. The municipality is divided into 11 wards. Dahbagar, Khidatari, Deulikot, Pipalkot and Kaflaseri are the previous villages which were merged to form this new local level unit. Atpali Village is a village in Bungal municipality, and also the ancestral place of Kamalbathyal house.

Demographics

At the time of the

, Bungal Municipality had a population of 33,224. Of these, 100.0% spoke Nepali as their first language. In terms of ethnicity/caste, 79.8% were

Chhetri Chhetri (Kshetri, Kshettri, Kshetry or Chhettri), ( ; IAST: ''Kṣetrī'') historically called Kshettriya or Kshetriya or Khas are Nepali language, Nepali speaking people historically associated with the warrior class and administration, some of ...

, 10.2%

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, 4.2% Hill Brahmin, 1.7% other

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, 1.6%

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, 1.1% Sanyasi/Dasnami, 1.0%

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/Dholi, 0.1%

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, 0.1% Sarki, 0.1% other Terai and 0.1% others. In terms of religion, 100.0% were

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. In terms of literacy, 51.6% could read and write, 3.0% could only read and 45.3% could neither read nor write. NepalMap Literac

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References

External links

*http://mofald.gov.np/sites/default/files/News_Notices/Final%20District%201-75%20Corrected%20Last%20for%20RAJPATRA.pdf *https://web.archive.org/web/20180831065451/http://103.69.124.141/ *http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/news/2017-08-11/govt-prepares-to-add-9-more-local-levels-in-province-2.html *https://www.citypopulation.de/php/nepal-mun-admin.php?adm2id=6802 Municipalities in Bajhang District Municipalities of Nepal Nepal municipalities established in 2017 {{Sudurpashchim-geo-stub