Chapakot () 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' ...

in the southeastern part of

Syangja District Syangja District (; ) is a part of Gandaki Province, and is one of the List of districts of Nepal, seventy-seven districts of Nepal. Its headquarter is Putalibazar with a diverse population including Brahmin, Magar, Chhetri, Dalit and Gurung com ...

Gandaki Province Gandaki Province ( ) ), is one of the seven federal provinces established by the current constitution of Nepal which was promulgated on 20 September 2015. Pokhara is the province's capital city. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region in Southw ...

of central

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 new municipality was formed by merging three existing villages— Ratnapur, Kuwakot and Chapakot—on 18 May 2014. In 12 March 2017 The government implemented the new local administrative structure consisting of 744 local units. With the implementation of this new local administrative structure, the old structure will no longer be in existence. According to the new structure, VDCs will be replaced with village councils. Newly merged VDCs are Sankhar, Sekham, Ward no. 8 of

Pakbadi Pakwadi is a village development committee in Syangja District in the Gandaki Zone of central Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census Nepal conducted a widespread national census in 2011 by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics. Working ...

& Ward no. (1-3, 5-9) of Malyangkot. The office of the municipality is that of the former Chapakot Municipality.

Population

At the time of the

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 ...

Chapakot village had a population of 4,702 people living in 1087 individual households. But now had a total population of 12,742 people living in 2,902 individual households when Ratnapur and Kuwakot VDCs merged with Chapakot. Now 26,042 peoples are living in an area of 120.59 km². It is on a plain surrounded by hills. To the east of Chapakot is

Tanahun Tanahun District ( , or ), a part of Gandaki Province, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. The district lies in central Nepal, with Damauli as its district headquarters. It covers an area of and has a population (2011) of 323,288. ...

; to the west is Galyang. The

Kali Gandaki The Gandaki River, also known as the Narayani and Gandak, is one of the major rivers in Nepal and a left-bank tributary of the Ganges in India. Its total catchment area is , most of it in Nepal. In the Nepal Himalayas, the Gandaki is notable f ...

divides it from

Palpa District Palpa District (, a part of Lumbini Province, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia. The district, with Tansen as its headquarters, covers an area of and has a population (2021) of 245,027. Palpa ...

to the south, and to the north is

Waling Waling List of cities in Nepal#Alphabetical list, Municipality (वालिङ नगरपालिका), located in the heart of Syangja District, Syangja, is a town and municipality in the western hilly region of Nepal. It was formed ...

, Biruwa &

Harinas Harinas () is a Village council in Syangja District in Gandaki Province, central Nepal. History On 12 March 2017, the government of Nepal implemented a new local administrative structure consisting of 744 local units. With the implementation of t ...

Climate

References

{{Syangja District Populated places in Syangja District Municipalities of Syangja District Syangja District Municipalities in Gandaki Province