Key facts
- Country
- Nepal
- Province
- Karnali Province
- Admin hq
- Manma (today part of Khandachakra Municipality )
- Type
- Coordination committee
- Body
- DCC , Kalikot
- Total
- 1,741 km (672 sq mi)
- Density
- 78.66/km (203.7/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+05:45 ( NPT )
- Website
- ddckalikot .gov .np
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Nepal
- Country
- Nepal
- Located in
- Karnali Province
- Population
- 145292
- Area
- 1741
- Official website
- ddckalikot.gov.np
- Image
- Landscape of Kalikot.jpg
- Households
- 26779
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- male population
- 72245
- female population
- 73047
- topic's main category
- Category:Kalikot District
- Commons category
- Kalikot District
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Encyclopedic overview
Kalikot District (Nepali: कालीकोट जिल्ला Listen), a part of Karnali province, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. The district, with Manma as its district headquarters, covers an area of 1,741 km (672 sq mi), had a population of 105,580 in 2001 and 136,948 in 2011. In September 2005, in a bid to encourage a change in social attitudes, the government announced that it would provide rice to any family that had recently had a girl born.
Geography and Climate
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kalikot District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.