Chandannath is a

municipality 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 ...

Jumla District Jumla District ( ne, जुम्ला जिल्ला), is one of the ten districts of the Karnali province of Nepal. This district has Jumla as its headquarters, an area of ; it had populations of 89,427 and 108,921, respectively, in th ...

in the

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 ...

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...

. The municipality was established on 18 May 2014 by merging the existing

Mahat Gaun Mahat Gaun is a market center in Chandannath Municipality in Jumla District in the Karnali Zone of north-western Nepal. The formerly village development committee was merged with Mahat Gaun, Talium, Kartik Swami, Chandannath village development ...

Talium Talium is a market center in Chandannath Municipality in Jumla District in the Karnali Zone of north-western Nepal. The formerly village development committee was merged with existing Mahat Gaun, Talium, Kartik Swami, Chandannath village develo ...

Kartik Swami Kartik Swami is the former name of the Village Development Committee of Jumla, a market center in Chandannath Municipality in Jumla District in the Karnali Zone of north-western Nepal. The former village development committee was merged with exi ...

( Jumla), and Chandannath village development committees (VDCs). At the time of the

1991 Nepal census The 1991 Nepal census was a widespread national census conducted by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics. Working with Nepal's Village Development Committees at a district level, they recorded data from all the main towns and villages of each ...

it had a population of 5,842 persons living in 1,000 individual households.

Politics and Leadership

Kantika Sejuwal of

Nepali Congress The Nepali Congress ( ne, नेपाली कांग्रेस ; abbr. NC) is the largest social democratic political party in Nepal. As per the results of recent local election, ''Nepali Congress'' stands as the single largest party o ...

is the first elected mayor of Chandannath Municipality in

, polling 2,777 votes against 2066 by her nearest rival from CPN Maoist Center. Sejuwal is also the only woman elected mayor in the province with its 25 municipalities, apart from 54 rural municipalities.

Twin towns – sister cities

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References

External links

UN map of the municipalities of Jumla District
Populated places in Jumla District Municipalities in Karnali Province Nepal municipalities established in 2014 {{Jumla-geo-stub