Namkha () is the largest

rural municipality A rural municipality is a classification of municipality, a type of local government, found in several countries. These include: * Rural municipality (Canada), Rural municipalities in Canada, a Lists of municipalities in Canada, type of municipa ...

(by area) of

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located in

Humla District Humla District (), a part of Karnali Province, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. The district, with Simikot as its district headquarters, covers an area of and has population of 50,858 as per the census of 2011. Namkha is the larg ...

of Karnali Province. The total area of the rural municipality is and total population is 3900 individuals (as of

2011 Nepal census Nepal conducted a widespread national census in 2011 by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics. Working in cooperation with the 58 municipalities and the 3,915 Village Development Committees at a district level, they recorded data from all the m ...

) only. The rural municipality is divided into 6 wards. The rural municipality was established on 10 March 2017, when

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restricted all old administrative structure ( Village development committee) and announced 744 local level units (although the number increased to 753 later) as per the new

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. Hepka, Khagalgaun, Muchu and

Limi Limi Valley is a high-altitude valley that forms the northernmost part of the Humla District of north-western Nepal. To its north, the Limi valley borders the Purang County of Tibet, China. Administrative Limi is a ward council of the Namkha r ...

Village development committees were incorporated to form this new rural municipality. The headquarters of the municipality is situated at Yalwang. LimiRout

Namkha RM is located in the most North-west part of Nepal in

of Karnali Province. It is surrounded by

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(China) from North and West. Geographically Namkha is a difficult terrain which is also an isolated region which is still not connected by road with District headquarter

Simikot Simikot is the administrative headquarters of Humla District of Karnali Zone in the mountain region of northwestern Nepal. Significance Lying at an altitude of just over 2,900m on a gentle slope high above the Humla Karnali River, Simikot lie ...

. It is totally located on

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. Some villages of

is located across the himalayas. The region is known for

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. There is trekking route connecting

, Muchu and Yalwang. Txu-oclc-10552568-nh44-7

Demographics

At the time of the

, 98.3% of the population in Namkha Rural Municipality spoke Tamang and 0.9% Nepali as their first language; 0.8% spoke other languages. In terms of ethnicity/caste, 58.7% were

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, 20.5%

Chhetri Chhetri (Kshetri, Kshettri, Kshetry or Chhettri), ( ; IAST: ''Kṣetrī'') historically called Kshettriya or Kshetriya or Khas are Nepali language, Nepali speaking people historically associated with the warrior class and administration, some of ...

and 0.8% others. In terms of religion, 67.8% were

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, 20.0%

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and 0.2% others. NepalMap Demographic

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References

External links

* http://www.namkhamun.gov.np/ *https://www.citypopulation.de/php/nepal-mun-admin.php?adm2id=6604 {{Humla District Populated places in Humla District Rural municipalities in Karnali Province Rural municipalities of Nepal established in 2017