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Province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions out ...

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Lumbini Province Lumbini Province ( ne, लुम्बिनी प्रदेश, Lumbinī pradēśa) is a province in western Nepal. It borders Gandaki Province and Karnali Province to the north, Sudurpashchim Province to the west, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar o ...

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District A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivision ...

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Parasi District Nawalparasi (West of Bardaghat Susta) district or Nawalparasi West, as known commonly ( ne, नवलपरासी (बर्दघाट सुस्ता पश्चिम) वा नवलपरासी पश्चिम ), also frequent ...

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Mayor–council government The mayor–council government system is a system of local government that has a mayor who is directly elected by the voters serve as chief executive, and a separately elected legislative city council. It is one of the two most common forms of l ...

, governing_body = Sunwal City Municipality Government , leader_title = Mayor , leader_name = Bimala Aryal ( UML) , leader_title1 = Deputy mayor , leader_name1 = Surya Prasad Dubey ( UML) , unit_pref = Metric , area_total_km2 = 173.50 , area_metro_km2 = , elevation_m = 131 , population_footnotes = , population_as_of =

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, population_total = 72,621 , population_density_km2 = , population_rank = 27th , population_metro = 0.11 million , population_blank1_title = Municipal rank , population_blank1 =

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Nepal Standard Time Nepal Standard Time (NPT) is the time zone for Nepal. With a time offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) of UTC+05:45 all over Nepal, it is one of only three time zones with a 45-minute offset from UTC.The others are Chatham Island Stan ...

, utc_offset1 = +05:45 , postal_code_type = Postal Code , postal_code = 33000 , area_code = 01 , area_codes = , iso_code = , website = , module = , footnotes = , other_name = Sunawal, Golden Place, Golden Wall Sunwal City, officially the Sunwal Municipal City, is the urbanized and the most populous city of

with 72,621 native inhabitants living in 18,689 households in

and 0.11 million people in its urban agglomeration. It is located in the

at an altitude of . The city is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in Lumbini, founded in the 15th century. The city was historically called the " Sunawal" and has been the home of the Brahmin, Chhetri, Gurung, Magar and Newar people, a cosmopolitan urban civilization in the Himalayan foothills. Today, it runs with the local government of the Nepalese republic, established in 2015, and is part of the Lumbini Province.

Demographics

At the time of the 2011 Nepal census, Sunwal City had a population of 39,846 people living in 8,639 individual households. After the announcement of the municipality by combining two VDCs, the total population of Sunwal Municipality increased to more than 100,000, which is the highest in Nawalparasi district. Swathi alone had a population of 10,629 with 2,102 individual households. There are

informal settlements Informal housing or informal settlement can include any form of housing, shelter, or settlement (or lack thereof) which is illegal, falls outside of government control or regulation, or is not afforded protection by the state. As such, the info ...

of squatters at Kerabari, Ramuwapur, Simaltari Charpala, Sirjanatole and Sundarbasti.

Nearby tourist attractions

The

Ramagrama stupa Ramagrama stupa ( ne, रामग्राम नगरपालिका, also Ramgram, Rāmgrām, Rāmagrāma) is a stupa located in Ramgram Municipality, in the Parasi District of Nepal. This Buddhist pilgrimage site containing relics of Ga ...

is a

stupa A stupa ( sa, स्तूप, lit=heap, ) is a mound-like or hemispherical structure containing relics (such as ''śarīra'' – typically the remains of Buddhist monks or nuns) that is used as a place of meditation. In Buddhism, circum ...

located in Ramgram Municipality, about 11 km from Sunwal. This

Buddhist pilgrimage The most important places in Buddhism are located in the Indo-Gangetic Plain of northern India and southern Nepal, in the area between New Delhi and Rajgir. This is the area where Gautama Buddha lived and taught, and the main sites connected ...

site, which was constructed around 2500 BCE, contains

relics In religion, a relic is an object or article of religious significance from the past. It usually consists of the physical remains of a saint or the personal effects of the saint or venerated person preserved for purposes of veneration as a tangi ...

Gautama Buddha Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha, was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism. According to Buddhist tradition, he was born in L ...

. According to

Buddhist texts Buddhist texts are those religious texts which belong to the Buddhist tradition. The earliest Buddhist texts were not committed to writing until some centuries after the death of Gautama Buddha. The oldest surviving Buddhist manuscripts ...

, after Buddha's Mahaparinirvana, his cremated remains were divided and distributed among the princes of eight of the 16 mahājanapadās. Each of the princes constructed a stupa at or near his capital city, within which the respective portion of the ashes was enshrined. One of them was Rāmagrāma, a major city of the

Koliya Koliya (Pāli: ) was an ancient Indo-Aryan clan of north-eastern South Asia whose existence is attested during the Iron Age. The Koliyas were organised into a (an aristocratic oligarchic republic), presently referred to as the Koliya Repub ...

kingdom (sometimes referred to as ''Koliyanagara'') at that time. As of today, the Ramagrama stupa is the only intact and original stupa which contains relics of Buddha. The high stupa is now buried under a mound of earth and is awaiting further research.

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References

External links

Cost of Living Index in Nepal - Statistics & Graphs of Nepalese Citizen's Economic Power
January 10, 2014
Central Bureau of Statistics, Final result of population and housing - census 2011, VDC/Municipality, Table 2 (p. 8)
{{Parasi District Cities in Nepal Nepal municipalities established in 2014 Populated places in Parasi District