Bagmati is a Rural municipality located within the Makwanpur District of the Bagmati Province of Nepal. The municipality spans of area, with a total population of 30,495 according to a

2011 Nepal census Nepal conducted a widespread national census in 2011 by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics. Working with the 58 municipalities and the 3915 Village Development Committees at a district level, they recorded data from all the municipalities an ...

. On March 10, 2017, the Government of Nepal restructured the local level bodies into 753 new local level structures. The previous

Raigaun Raigaun is a village in the Bagmati Rural Municipality of Makwanpur District in Bagmati Province. It was a part of a village development committee in Narayani Zone of southern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of ...

, Phaparbari and Betini VDCs were merged to form Bagmati Rural Municipality. Bagmati is divided into 9

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, with Phaparbari declared the administrative center of the rural municipality.

Demographics

At the time of the

, Bagmati Rural Municipality had a population of 30,587. Of these, 60.4% spoke Tamang, 21.6%

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, 7.5% Magar, 5.9% Rai, 2.2% Majhi, 1.2% Pahari, 0.5%

Newar Newar (; new, नेवार, endonym: Newa; new, नेवा, Pracalit script:) or Nepami, are the historical inhabitants of the Kathmandu Valley and its surrounding areas in Nepal and the creators of its historic heritage and civilisatio ...

, 0.2%

Bhojpuri Bhojpuri (;Bhojpuri entry, Oxford Dictionaries
, Oxford U ...

, 0.2% Danuwar, 0.1% Bhujel, 0.1% Maithili and 0.1% other languages as their first language. In terms of ethnicity/caste, 60.5% were Tamang, 12.4% Magar, 8.3% Rai, 4.7% Majhi, 3.9% Pahari, 3.2% Kami, 2.0% Chhetri, 1.7% Hill Brahmin, 1.6%

, 0.7% Damai/Dholi, 0.2% Danuwar, 0.1% Brahmu/Baramo, 0.1% Gharti/ Bhujel, 0.1% Sarki and 0.3% others. In terms of religion, 66.3% were Buddhist, 27.8%

Hindu Hindus (; ) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism.Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pages 35–37 Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for ...

, 3.6%

Christian Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The words ''Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title ''Christós'' (Χρι ...

, 2.1% Prakriti and 0.2% others. In terms of literacy, 54.0% could read and write, 3.4% could only read and 42.6% could neither read nor write. NepalMap Literac

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References

External links

official website of the rural municipality
Rural municipalities in Makwanpur District Rural municipalities of Nepal established in 2017 {{Bagmati-geo-stub