Jhapa Rural Municipality

Jhapa (Nepali: झापा गाउँपालिका) is a rural municipality (gaunpalika) out of seven rural municipality located in Jhapa District of Province No. 1 of Nepal. There are a total of 15 municipalities in Jhapa in which 8 are urban and 7 are rural.

Jhapa झापा गाउँपालिका
Rural Municipality
Division of Jhapa rural municipality
Jhapa Location in Province No. 1 Show map of Province No. 1 Jhapa Jhapa (Nepal) Show map of Nepal
Coordinates: 26°30′14″N 87°52′11″E / 26.5039°N 87.8696°E / 26.5039; 87.8696Coordinates: 26°30′14″N 87°52′11″E / 26.5039°N 87.8696°E / 26.5039; 87.8696
Province	Province No. 1
District	Jhapa
Wards	7
Established	10 March 2017
Seat	Taganduba
Government
• Type	Village Council
• Chairperson	Mr. Jayanarayan Shah (NC)
• Vice-chairperson	Mrs. Anju Devi Thapaliya (NC)
Area
• Total	94.12 km² (36.34 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	34,601
• Density	370/km² (950/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+5:45 (Nepal Standard Time)
Website	official website

According to Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Developme Jhapa has an area of 94.12 square kilometres (36.34 sq mi) and the total population of the municipality is 34601 as of Census of Nepal 2011.^[1]^[2]

Kumarkhod, Taganduba and Sharanamati which previously were all separate Village development committee merged to form this new local level body. Fulfilling the requirement of the new Constitution of Nepal 2015, Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development replaced all old VDCs and Municipalities into 753 new local level body (Municipality).^[1]

The rural municipality is divided into total 7 wards and the headquarter of this newly formed rural municipality is situated in Taganduba.

References

^ ^a ^b . www.mofald.gov.np/en. MoFALD. Archived from the original on 31 August 2018. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
^ "CITY POPULATION – statistics, maps & charts". www.citypopulation.de. 8 October 2017. Retrieved 16 April 2018.

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