Gangadev is a

Rural municipality A rural municipality is a classification of municipality, a type of local government, found in several countries. These include: * Rural municipalities in Canada, a type of municipal status in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, a ...

located within the

Rolpa District Rolpa ( ne, रोल्पा जिल्ला), is a "hill" district in Lumbini Province of Nepal. Rolpa district covers an area of with population (2011) of 221,177. Rolpa town is the district's administrative center. The various gri ...

of the

Lumbini Province Lumbini Province ( ne, लुम्बिनी प्रदेश, Lumbinī pradēśa) is a province in western Nepal. It borders Gandaki Province and Karnali Province to the north, Sudurpashchim Province to the west, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar ...

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 ma ...

. The rural municipality spans of area, with a total population of 20,009 according to a

2011 Nepal census Nepal conducted a widespread national census in 2011 by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics. Working with the 58 municipalities and the 3915 Village Development Committees at a district level, they recorded data from all the municipalities an ...

. On March 10, 2017, the

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restructured the local level bodies into 753 new local level structures. The previous

Jinawang Jinawang is a village development committee in Rolpa District in the Rapti Zone of north-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census Nepal conducted a widespread national census in 2011 by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics. Wor ...

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, Pakhapani and portion of

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VDCs were merged to form Gangadev Rural Municipality. Gangadev is divided into 7

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, with

declared the administrative center of the rural municipality.

References

External links

official website of the rural municipality
Rural municipalities in Rolpa District Rural municipalities of Nepal established in 2017 {{Lumbini-geo-stub