Hepka is a
village
A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...
and ward council of
Namkha
The namkha (Tibetan: ''nam mkha'' (ནམ་མཁའ་), 'sky', ' space', ' aether', ' heaven'), also known as ''Dö'' (Tibetan: ''mdos'' (མདོས)),) is a form of yarn or thread cross composed traditionally of wool or silk and is a fo ...
rural municipality in
Humla District
Humla District (), a part of Karnali Province, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. The district, with Simikot as its district headquarters, covers an area of and has population of 50,858 as per the census of 2011. Namkha is the larg ...
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 ...
of north-western
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 ...
. 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 977 persons living in 159 individual households.
See also
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Limi
Limi Valley is a high-altitude valley that forms the northernmost part of the Humla District of north-western Nepal. To its north, the Limi valley borders the Purang County of Tibet, China.
Administrative
Limi is a ward council of the Namkha r ...
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Khagalgaun
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Muchu
Muchu is a village in Namkha rural municipality in Humla District in the Karnali Province of north-western Nepal. Previously Muchu was a separate Village Development Committee which merged with other neighbouring villages and restructured as Namk ...
References
External links
UN map of the municipalities of Dolpa DistrictMinistry of Federal Affairs and General AdministrationMOFAGA GIS MAP
Populated places in Humla District
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