Devghat is a Rural municipality located within the Tanahun District of the Gandaki Province of Nepal. The rural municipality spans of area, with a total population of 16,131 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 Devghat,

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Chhipchhipe Chhipchhipe is a village development committee in Tanahu District in the Gandaki Zone of central 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 Stati ...

and part of Baidi VDCs were merged to form Devghat Rural Municipality. Devghat is divided into 5

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, with Devghat VDC declared the administrative center of the rural municipality.

Demographics

At the time of the

, Devghat Rural Municipality had a population of 16,478. Of these, 44.1% spoke

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, 27.7% Magar, 22.0% Gurung, 3.6% Bhujel, 1.3% Bote, 0.6% Tamang, 0.4%

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, 0.1% Chepang, 0.1% Sign language and 0.1% other languages as their first language. In terms of ethnicity/caste, 34.8% were Magar, 31.5% Gurung, 8.8% Hill Brahmin, 6.5% Gharti/ Bhujel, 3.8% Thakuri, 3.5% Chhetri, 2.6% Kami, 1.8% Bote, 1.8% Damai/Dholi, 1.8% Majhi, 0.8%

, 0.8% Tamang, 0.6% Sanyasi/Dasnami, 0.3% Brahmu/Baramo, 0.3% Sarki, 0.1% Chepang/Praja, 0.1%

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and 0.2% others. In terms of religion, 68.0% were

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, 28.4% Buddhist, 3.2%

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 ...

, 0.1%

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, 0.1% Prakriti and 0.2% others. In terms of literacy, 67.2% could read and write, 2.0% could only read and 30.7% could neither read nor write. NepalMap Literac

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References

External links

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