Dangisharan Rural Municipality (Nepali : दंगीशरण गाउँपालिका) is a
Gaunpalika in
Dang District in
Lumbini Province of Nepal. On 12 March 2017, the government of Nepal implemented a new local administrative structure, with the implementation of the new local administrative structure,
VDCs have been replaced with municipal and Village Councils. Dangisharan is one of these 753 local units.
Demographics
At the time of the
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 ...
, Dangisharan Rural Municipality had a population of
21,484. Of these, 57.6% spoke
Nepali
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, 42.1%
Tharu, 0.1%
Magar, 0.1%
Tamang and 0.2% other languages as their first language.
In terms of ethnicity/caste, 45.6% were
Tharu, 29.5%
Chhetri, 4.9%
Hill Brahmin, 4.7%
Kami
are the deities, divinities, spirits, phenomena or "holy powers", that are venerated in the Shinto religion. They can be elements of the landscape, forces of nature, or beings and the qualities that these beings express; they can also be the sp ...
, 4.2%
Magar, 3.9% Sanyasi/Dasnami, 3.0%
Damai/Dholi, 1.9%
Sarki, 0.8%
Thakuri, 0.7%
Badi, 0.2%
Kumal, 0.2%
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 ...
, 0.1%
Tamang and 0.2% others.
In terms of religion, 99.3% were
Hindu
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, 0.5%
Christian
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, 0.1%
Buddhist
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and 0.1% others.
In terms of literacy, 69.1% could read and write, 1.9% could only read and 28.9% could neither read nor write.
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References
Dang District, Nepal
Lumbini Province
Rural municipalities of Nepal established in 2017
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