Makwanpur District( ne, मकवानपुर जिल्ला; , a part of

Bagmati Province Bagmati Province ( ne, बाग्मती प्रदेश, ''Bagmati Pradesh'') is one of the seven provinces of Nepal established by the constitution of Nepal. The province is Nepal's second-most populous province and fifth largest provinc ...

, earlier a part of

Narayani Zone Narayani ( ne, नारायणी अञ्चल) was one of the fourteen zones of Nepal until the restructuring of zones to Provinces, located in the central south of the country. The headquarter of Narayani zone was Hetauda. Narayani Zone i ...

, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. The district, with Hetauda as its district headquarter, as well as pradesh headquarter covers an area of and had a population of 392,604 in 2001 and 420,477 in 2011.

History

During

Rana regime Rana dynasty ( ne, राणा वंश, IAST=Rāṇā vaṃśa , ) is a Chhetri dynasty that imposed totalitarianism in the Kingdom of Nepal from 1846 until 1951, reducing the Shah monarch to a figurehead and making Prime Minister and other ...

, the district was named Chisapani District and the headquarter of the district was situated in Chisapanigadhi. The district renamed as Makwanpur on the name of Makwanpurgadhi and the headquarter moved to Hetauda in 1982.

Geography and climate

Demographics

At the time of the 2011 Nepal census, Makwanpur District had a population of 420,477. Of these, 45.3% spoke

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 ...

, 41.9% Nepali, 4.0% Newari, 3.8% Chepang, 1.3% Magar, 1.0% Bhojpuri, 0.7% Maithili and 0.5%

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as their

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. 54.0% of the population in the district spoke Nepali 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 ...

Administration

The district consists of 10 Municipalities, out of which one is a sub-metropolitan city, one is an urban municipality and eight are rural municipalities. These are as follows: * Hetauda Sub-Metropolitan City * Thaha Municipality * Bhimphedi Rural Municipality * Makawanpurgadhi Rural Municipality * Manahari Rural Municipality * Raksirang Rural Municipality *

Bakaiya Rural Municipality Bakaiya is a Rural municipality located within the Makwanpur District of the Bagmati Province of Nepal. The municipality spans of area, with a total population of 39,620 according to a 2011 Nepal census. On March 10, 2017, the Government of Ne ...

* Bagmati Rural Municipality * Kailash Rural Municipality * Indrasarowar Rural Municipality

Former Village Development Committees and Municipalities

* Agara * Ambhanjyang * Bajrabarahi * Betini * Bhainse * Bharta Pundyadevi *

Bhimphedi Bhimphedi ( ne, भीमफेदी), is a village located in the Bhimphedi Rural Municipality of Makwanpur District of Bagmati Province of Nepal. This village is known for its bazaar (marketplace). Bismuth ore is mined here. Etymology The wo ...

Budhichaur Budhichaur is a village development committee in the Makawanpurgadhi Rural Municipality of Makwanpur District in the Bagmati Province of southern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census The 1991 Nepal census was a widespread national census ...

* Chhatiwan *

Chitlang Chitlang (Nepali:चित्लाङ, Nepal Bhasa:चिलं/चिलिम]) is a village located in Thaha Municipality of Makwanpur District, Bagmati Province, Nepal. Religions of chitlang Geography Chitlang sits southwest of Kathmandu v ...

* Dandakharka, Narayani, Dandakharka *

Dhimal The Dhimal or Dhemal(in Nepali:धिमाल) are an Kirati ethnic group residing in the eastern Terai of Nepal. They are a Sino-Tibetan-speaking ethnic group of the eastern Terai. They mainly reside in Morang and Jhapa districts of Nepal a ...

* Gogane * Handikhola * Hetauda (Sub metropolitan city) * Hurnamadi * Ipa Panchakanya * Kalikatar * Kankada * Khairang * Kogate * Kulekhani *

Makwanpurgadhi Makwanpurgadhi or Makwanpur Gadhi (literally ''Makwanpur Fort'') is a village development committee in Makwanpur District in the Narayani Zone of southern Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census Nepal conducted a widespread national censu ...

* Manahari * Manthali * Markhu * Marta Punchedevi *

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* Nibuwatar * Fakhel * Phaparbari *

Raigaun Raigaun is a village in the Bagmati Rural Municipality, Makwanpur, Bagmati Rural Municipality of Makwanpur District in Bagmati Province. It was a part of a village development committee in Narayani Zone of southern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 ...

* Raksirang * Sarikhet Palase * Shikharpur * Sripur Chhatiwan * Sisneri Mahadevsthan * Sukaura * Thaha Municipality * Thingan * Tistung Deurali

Notable people

* Birodh Khatiwada * Indra Bahdur Baniya * Kabiraj Negi Lama * Girija Prasad Adhikari * Prabesh Rijal * Dipak Bahadur Singh * Rajan Mainali

References

* {{Coord, 27, 25, N, 85, 02, E, type:adm2nd_region:NP_source:enwiki, display=title Districts of Nepal established during Rana regime or before Districts of Bagmati Province