Gandaki Province
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province of Nepal
Key facts
- Country
- Nepal
- Formation
- 20 September 2015
- Capital city
- Pokhara
- Largest city
- Pokhara
- Type
- Self governing province
- Body
- Government of Gandaki Province
- Governor
- Dilli Raj Bhatta
- Chief minister
- Surendra Raj Pandey ( Congress )
- High court
- Pokhara High Court
- Provincial assembly
- Unicameral (60 seats)
- Total
- 21,504 km (8,303 sq mi)
- Rank
- 4th
- Elevation
- 2,563 m (8,409 ft)
- Highest elevation dhaulagiri i
- 8,167 m (26,795 ft)
- Lowest elevation binayi tribeni
- 87 m (285 ft)
- Density
- 114.70/km (297.06/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+5:45 ( NST )
- Geocode
- NP-FO
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- province of Nepal
- Country
- Nepal
- Located in
- Nepal
- Capital
- Pokhara
- Population
- 2403757
- Area
- 21733
- Official website
- gandaki.gov.np
- Households
- 662480
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- Commons category
- Gandaki Pradesh
- inception
- 2015-09-20
- foundational text
- Constitution of Nepal
- male population
- 1170833
- female population
- 1295594
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
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Encyclopedic overview
Gandaki Province (Nepali: गण्डकी प्रदेश, romanized: Gaṇḍakī pradēśa ([ɡʌɳɖʌki]) Listen) is one of the seven federal provinces established by the current constitution of Nepal which was promulgated on 20 September 2015. Pokhara is the province's capital city. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region in Southwestern China to the north, Bagmati Province to the east, Karnali Province to the west, and Lumbini Province and Bihar in India to the south. The total area of the province is 21,733 km (8,391 sq mi), constituting 14.66% of Nepal's total area. According to the 2021 census, the population of the province was 2,479,745. The newly elected Provincial Assembly adopted Gandaki Province as the permanent name, replacing its initial name Province No. 4 on 27 April 2023. Surendra Raj Pandey is the present chief minister of Gandaki Province.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gandaki Province” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.