Chandannath is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

Jumla District Jumla District (), is one of the ten districts of Nepal, districts of the Karnali Province, Karnali province of Nepal. This district has Jumla (town), Jumla as its headquarters, an area of ; it had populations of 89,427 and 108,921, respectivel ...

in the

Karnali Province Karnali Province () 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 , making it the largest province in Nepal with 18.97% of the country's ...

Nepal Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...

. 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 developmen ...

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 e ...

( 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 the

Nepali Congress The Nepali Congress ( ; Abbreviation, abbr. NC), colloquially the Congress Party, or simply the Congress, is a Social democracy, social democratic List of political parties in Nepal, political party in Nepal and the largest party in the country ...

is the first elected mayor of Chandannath; she is also the only female elected mayor in the municipality.

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