Thuli Bheri () is an urban

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' ...

located in

Dolpa District Dolpa District (), is a district, located in Karnali Province of Nepal, It is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal and one of ten district of Karnali. The district, with Dunai as its district headquarters, covers an area of and has a p ...

of Karnali Province of

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. The district headquarter of

Dolpa Dolpa District (), is a district, located in Karnali Province of Nepal, It is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal and one of ten district of Karnali. The district, with Dunai as its district headquarters, covers an area of and has a po ...

lies in Dunai, which is a village in the south-east of Thuli Beri. The total area of the municipality is and the total population of the municipality as of

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 8,370 individuals. The municipality is divided into total 11 wards.

History

The municipality was established on 10 March 2017, when

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restricted all old administrative structure and announced 744 local level units as per the new

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. Dunai,

Majhphal Mazfal is a village development committee in Dolpa District in the Karnali Zone of north-western 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 Statist ...

Juphal Juphal is a village and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Thuli Bheri Municipality in Nepal. The 1991 Nepal census counted 1,513 persons in 300 households. Transportation Dolpa Airport lies in Juphal and offers flights t ...

and

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Village development committees were incorporated to form this new municipality. The headquarters of the municipality is situated at Dunai.

Demographics

At the time of the

, 96.7% of the population in Thuli Bheri Municipality spoke Nepali, 0.8%

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, 0.6% Magar, 0.6%

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, 0.2% Maithili, 0.2%

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 ...

, 0.1% Tamang and 0.1%

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as their first language; 0.7% spoke other languages. In terms of ethnicity/caste, 67.4% were

Chhetri Chhetri (Kshetri, Kshettri, Kshetry or Chhettri), ( ; IAST: ''Kṣetrī'') historically called Kshettriya or Kshetriya or Khas are Nepali language, Nepali speaking people historically associated with the warrior class and administration, some of ...

, 11.0%

Thakuri The Thakuri (Nepali: ठकुरी) . This term is Nepalese title ""Thakuri"", which translates to 'master of the estate'. The term denotes the royal descendants of kings of Baise Rajya and Chaubisi Rajya. During the height of their influence ...

, 9.5%

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, 2.6% Hill Brahmin, 2.4%

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, 2.2% Magar, 1.8%

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/Dholi, 0.9% Tamang, 0.7%

and 1.5% others. In terms of religion, 97.4% were

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, 2.4%

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, 0.2%

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and 0.1%

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Transportation

Dolpa Airport Dolpa Airport , also known as Juphal Airport is a domestic airport located in Juphal, Thuli Bheri serving Dolpa District, a district in Karnali Province in Nepal. It is one of the two airports of the district. Dolpo Airport was established in ...

lies Old-Juphal, in the north-west of the town and offers flights to

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Education

In education, there is the Dolpa Campus affiliated with

Tribhuvan University Tribhuvan University (TU; ) is a public university located in Kirtipur, Kathmandu Valley, Kathmandu, Nepal. Established in 1959, TU is the oldest and the largest university in Nepal. It offers 1,000 undergraduate and 500 postgraduate programs a ...

, one high school: Sarswoti Higher Secondary School affiliated with HSEB, and the Dunai Community Library which is a community learning center.

Healthcare

There is one hospital, the 15-bed Dolpa District Hospital.

References

External links

* http://www.thulibherimun.gov.np/ * https://www.citypopulation.de/php/nepal-mun-admin.php?adm2id=6207 {{Dolpa District Populated places in Dolpa District Municipalities in Karnali Province Nepal municipalities established in 2017