Sulubung is a

village development committee Village development committee may refer to: * Village development committee (India) * Village development committee (Nepal) A village development committee (; ''gāum̐ vikās samiti'') in Nepal was the lower administrative part of its Mini ...

Ilam District Ilam district () is one of Districts of Province No. 1, 14 districts of Koshi Province of eastern Nepal. It is a Geography of Nepal#The Hill Region, Hill districts of Nepal, district and covers . The 2011 Nepal census, 2011 census counted 290,25 ...

in the

Province No. 1 Koshi Province () is an autonomous province of Nepal adopted by the Constitution of Nepal on 20 September 2015. It covers an area of , about 17.5% of the country's total area. With the industrial city of Biratnagar as its capital, the province i ...

of eastern

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 3,470. Maipokhari, one of the major tourist and religious place of

lies here. A company named Hesty Kiwi Private Limited has been established in this region which had helped to popularize this village with the plantation of

kiwifruit Kiwifruit (often shortened to kiwi), or Chinese gooseberry, is the edible berry (botany), berry of several species of woody vines in the genus ''Actinidia''. The most common cultivar group of kiwifruit (Actinidia chinensis var. deliciosa, ...

. It is about 15 km from Ilam Bazaar. It is a hilly area having cold climate and mainly tea production is the income of most of the people here.

Education

There are many government schools and few primary schools in this VDC.Most of the schools are primary and few are higher/secondary schools. One and only higher secondary school is Shree Saraswati Higher Secondary School. This is the most popular school in the whole district. Others are: Maipokhari Secondary School Shree Bal Niketan Primary school East Sky Academy New Happy Valley Boarding school, etc.

Major villages of Sulubung

Yakpi Gairigaun Hutulung Tari benshi Mudhe Dandakharka Luringtaar Talgaun

Rivers

Maikhola Sani Mai Khahare khola Rupesh Pathak Sulubung 5 Ilam

References

Rupesh Pathak @ 2016

External links

UN map of the municipalities of Ilam District
Populated places in Ilam District {{IlamNP-geo-stub