Musikot ( ne, मुसिकोट) 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 district headquarter of

Western Rukum District Western Rukum ( ne, पश्चिमी रुकुम ) a part of Karnali Province, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. Musikot is the headquarter of the district. Formally Western Rukum District was part of Rukum District, whi ...

Karnali Province Karnali Province ( ne, कर्णाली प्रदेश) is one of the seven federal provinces of Nepal formed by the new constitution which was adopted on 20 September 2015. The total area of the province is covering 18.97% of the cou ...

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 ...

that was established as ''Musikot Khalanga'' on 2 December 2014 by merging the two former Village development committees Musikot and ''Khalanga''. From 2014 until 2018, Musikot was called ''Musikot Khalanga'' and until 2017 served as the district headquarter of

Rukum District Rukum District ( ne, रुकुम जिल्ला) was a "hill" and "mountain" district some west of Kathmandu partially belonging to Lumbini Province and partially to Karnali Province before split into two districts Western Rukum Distric ...

. It lies on the bank of

Sani Bheri River Sani Bheri River, a tributary of the Karnali River, starts from the southern slopes of Dhaulagiri range. Sani Bheri River and Thuli Bheri River join at Rimnaghat to form the main Bheri River The Bheri River is a major tributary of the ''Karna ...

. It borders with Eastern Rukum in the east, Sanibheri rural municipality in the west, Banfikot rural municipality in the north and Tribeni rural municipality and Rolpa district in the south. Once a red fort of

CPN (Maoist Centre) The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) (), abbreviated CPN (Maoist Centre), CPN-Maoist Centre, CPN Maoist Centre, or CPN (MC), is the third largest political party in Nepal. It was founded in 1994 after breaking away from the Communist P ...

, Musikot is now ruled by

Nepali Congress The Nepali Congress ( ne, नेपाली कांग्रेस ; abbr. NC) is the largest social democratic political party in Nepal. As per the results of recent local election, ''Nepali Congress'' stands as the single largest party o ...

since the year 2022 and Maoists have finally lost both mayoral and deputy mayoral post.

Media

To Promote local culture Musikot has one FM radio station, Radio Sani Bheri F.M. - 89.2 MHz, which is a

Community radio Community radio is a radio service offering a third model of radio broadcasting in addition to commercial and public broadcasting. Community stations serve geographic communities and communities of interest. They broadcast content that is popular ...

Station.

Transportation

Rukum Salle Airport Salle Airport , also known as Musikot Airport, is a domestic airport located in Musikot serving Western Rukum District, a district in Karnali Province in Nepal. It is the main tourist gateway to Mount Sisne. History The airport was original ...

lies in Old-Musikot offering flights to

Nepalgunj Nepalgunj (), also spelled Nepalganj, is a Sub-Metropolitan City in Banke District, Nepal. It lies on the Terai plains near the southern border with Bahraich district in Uttar Pradesh, India. Nepalgunj is 153 kilometers south-west of Ghorahi a ...

and

Kathmandu , pushpin_map = Nepal Bagmati Province#Nepal#Asia , coordinates = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = , subdivision_type1 = Province , subdivision_name1 = Bagmati Prov ...

. Rapti Highway links Musikot to the

Terai The Terai or Tarai is a lowland region in northern India and southern Nepal that lies south of the outer foothills of the Himalayas, the Sivalik Hills, and north of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. This lowland belt is characterised by tall grasslands, scr ...

region of Nepal.

References

External links

Official website
Populated places in Western Rukum District Municipalities in Karnali Province Nepal municipalities established in 2014 {{WestRukum-geo-stub