Mangalsen ne, मंगलसेन is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

and the capital of

Achham District Achham ( ne, अछाम जिल्ला ) is a district located in Sudurpashchim province of Nepal. It is one of the nine districts of the province. The district, with Mangalsen as its district headquarters, covers an area of 1,692 km ...

Sudurpashchim Province Sudurpashchim Province ( ne, सुदूरपश्चिम प्रदेश, ''Sudurpashchim Province'') (''Far-West Province'') is one of the seven provinces established by the new constitution of Nepal which was adopted on 20 September ...

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...

. It was established on 18 May 2014 by merger of the former Village development committees of

Janalibandali Janalibandali is a market center in Mangalsen municipality in Achham District in the Seti Zone of western Nepal. The municipality was established merging with existing Janalibandali, Kuntibandali, Oligau, Jupu and Mangalsen village developme ...

Kuntibandali Kuntibandali is a market center in Mangalsen Municipality in the Seti Zone of western Nepal. The municipality was established merging with existing Janalibandali, Kuntibandali, Oligau, Jupu and Mangalsen village development committees (VDCs) ...

, Oligaun,

Jupu Jupu is a market center in Mangalsen Municipality in Achham District in the Seti Zone of western Nepal. The municipality was established merging with existing Janalibandali, Kuntibandali, Oligau, Jupu and Mangalsen village development committees ...

, Kalagaun into its current form. 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 ...

it had a population of 32,507 people living in 6,604 individual households. Mangalsen was a major scene of conflict between

Maoist Maoism, officially called Mao Zedong Thought by the Chinese Communist Party, is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed to realise a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of Ch ...

rebels and government forces during the

Nepalese Civil War The Nepalese Civil War was a protracted armed conflict that took place in the former Kingdom of Nepal from 1996 to 2006. It saw fighting between the Nepalese royal government and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) throughout the country. ...

.Govt forces suffer heavy losses in Achham
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References

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Populated places in Achham District Nepal municipalities established in 2014 Village development committees in Achham District Municipalities in Achham District {{Achham-geo-stub