Lamjung District ( ne, लमजुङ जिल्ला ), a part of

Gandaki Province Gandaki Province ( ne, गण्डकी प्रदेश ) ), is one of the seven federal provinces established by the current constitution of Nepal which was promulgated on 20 September 2015. Pokhara is the province's capital city. It borde ...

, is one of the 77

districts of Nepal Districts in Nepal are second level of administrative divisions after provinces. Districts are subdivided in municipalities and rural municipalities. There are seven provinces and 77 districts in Nepal. After the state's reconstruction of admi ...

. The district, with Besisahar as its district headquarters, covers an area of and had a population of 167,724. Lamjung lies in the mid-hills of Nepal spanning tropical to trans-Himalayan geo-ecological belts, including the geographical midpoint of the country (i.e., Duipipal). It has mixed habitation of casts and ethnicities. It is host to probably the highest density of the

Gurung Gurung (exonym; ) or Tamu (endonym; Gurung: ) are an ethnic group indigenous to the hills and mountains of Gandaki Province of Nepal. Gurung people predominantly live around the Annapurna region in Manang, Mustang, Dolpo, Kaski, Lamjung, Gorkha, ...

ethnic population in the country.

Geography and climate

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 ...

, Lamjung District had a population of 167,724. Of these, 58.6% spoke Nepali, 29.8%

, 6.6%

Tamang The Tamang (; Devanagari: तामाङ; ''tāmāṅ'') are an Tibeto-Burmese ethnic group of Nepal. In Nepal Tamang/Moormi people constitute 5.6% of the Nepalese population at over 1.3 million in 2001, increasing to 1,539,830 as of the 2011 c ...

, 1.8% Newari, 1.0% Dura and 0.9% Magar as their

first language A first language, native tongue, native language, mother tongue or L1 is the first language or dialect that a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical period. In some countries, the term ''native language'' or ''mother tongu ...

. 38.7% of the population in the district spoke Nepali and 1.3%

as their

second language A person's second language, or L2, is a language that is not the native language (first language or L1) of the speaker, but is learned later. A second language may be a neighbouring language, another language of the speaker's home country, or a fo ...

Rural municipalities and municipalities

* Besisahar Municipality * Dordi Rural Municipality * Dudhpokhari Rural Municipality * Kwhlosothar Rural Municipality *

Madhya Nepal Municipality Madhyanepal ( ne, मध्यनेपाल) is a municipality located in Lamjung District in Gandaki Province of Nepal. It is one of four municipalities located in Lamjung. Madhyanepal reestablished on 10 March 2017 renaming the former Karaput ...

* Marsyandi Rural Municipality * Rainas Municipality * Sundarbazar Municipality

2015 earthquake

The

epicentre The epicenter, epicentre () or epicentrum in seismology is the point on the Earth's surface directly above a hypocenter or focus, the point where an earthquake or an underground explosion originates. Surface damage Before the instrumental pe ...

of an earthquake on 25 April 2015 was near Lamjung District. Most of the major damage and casualties took place in nearby Kathmandu, Nepal's capital. The death toll was placed at over 8,800. However, only four deaths were reported in Lamjung District. While Lamjung was the district with the 20th most deaths in Nepal, it was severely damaged. The villages of Bichaur,

Ilampokhari Ilampokhari is a village development committee in Lamjung District in the Gandaki Zone of northern-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3197 people living in 620 individual households. The village was affec ...

Dudhpokhari Dudhpokhari (दूधपोखरी) is a former village development committee in Lamjung District in the Gandaki Zone of northern-central Nepal. The name Dudhpokhari is derived from the lake which lies in the base of Himalchuli. At the time of ...

, Gauda,

Kolki Kolki is a village development committee in Lamjung District in the Gandaki Zone of northern-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 1892 people living in 354 individual households. 2015 Nepal earthquake T ...

and

Pyarjung Pyarjung is a village development committee in Lamjung District in the Gandaki Zone of northern-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2256 people living in 443 individual households. 2015 Nepal earthquake Th ...

were the most affected. Assistant Sub Inspector Bir Bahadur Thapa Magar identified the four deaths in Lamjung District as Lakshmi Gurung, 18, of Ilampokhari village; Nepti Tamang, 91, of Gaudu village; Sher Bahadur Tamang, 62, of Gaudu village; and three-and-a-half-month-old Sumit Bika of Gauda village. Twenty-five people were injured in Lamjung District. Local police estimate 2,094 houses were completely destroyed while another 2,129 houses were partially damaged.

References

* {{Coord, 28, 14, N, 82, 25, E, type:adm2nd_region:NP_source:enwiki, display=title Districts of Nepal established in 1962 Districts of Gandaki Province bar:Gorkha (Distrikt)