Rolpa () (earlier: Liwang municipality) is a municipality located in

Rolpa District Rolpa (), 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 grievances of Rolpa's population made the dis ...

Lumbini Province Lumbini Province () is a Provinces of Nepal, province in western Nepal. The country's Provinces of Nepal, third largest province in terms of area as well as List of Nepalese provinces by population, population, Lumbini is home to the World Herita ...

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. It is one of the municipalities of

. The municipality is surrounded by Sunchhahari and Swarnawati rural councils from the east, Tribeni & Madi rural councils from the West, Duikholi rural council from the North and Swarnawati & Runtigadhi from the South. Total area of the municipality is and total population according to 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 ...

is 32,759 individuals. The municipality is divided into total 10 wards.

Background

The municipality was established on 2 December 2014, when the government announced 61 more new municipalities. This new municipality was established merging the two then VDCs, e.g. Liwang and Khumel and it was named Libang then, later on 10 March 2017 more VDCs Kotgaun, Jankot, Hwama and

Dhawang Dhawang is a village development committee in Rolpa District in Lumbini Province of north-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census The 1991 Nepal census was a widespread national census conducted by the Nepal Central Bureau of Stati ...

incorporated with this municipality and renamed it to Rolpa.

Demographics

At the time of the

, Rolpa Municipality had a population of 34,347. Of these, 73.4% spoke Nepali, 18.4% Magar, 6.6%

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, 1.0%

Gurung Gurung (exonym; ) or Tamu (endonym; Gurung language, Gurung: ) are a Tibetan people, Tibetan ethnic group living in the hills and mountains of Gandaki Province of Nepal. Gurungs speak Tamu kyi which is a Sino-Tibetan language derived from the ...

, 0.2%

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i and 2.1% other languages as their first language. In terms of ethnicity/caste, 43.7% were Magar, 27.4%

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, 13.2%

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, 4.9% Sanyasi/Dasnami, 4.4%

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/Dholi, 2.6% Hill Brahmin, 1.5%

, 0.9%

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, 0.7%

and 0.7% others. In terms of religion, 75.3% were

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, 22.8%

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, 0.9% Prakriti, 0.7%

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, 0.1%

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and 0.2% others. NepalMap Demographic

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References

Municipalities in Lumbini Province Nepal municipalities established in 2014 {{Rolpa-geo-stub

Background

Demographics

See also

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