Kanchanpur District
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district of Sudurpashchim Province, Nepal
Key facts
- Country
- Nepal
- Province
- Sudurpashchim Province
- Administrative headquarters
- Bheemdatta
- Municipality
- List Urban Bheemdatta Punarbas Bedkot Mahakali Shuklaphanta Belauri Krishnapur Rural Beldandi Laljhadi
- Type
- Coordination committee
- Body
- DCC , Kanchanpur
- Head
- Mr. Phairu Tamang
- Deputy head
- Mrs. Sanu Kumari Budthapa
- Total
- 1,610 km (620 sq mi)
- Density
- 280/km (726/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+05:45 ( NPT )
- Main language s
- Doteli (37.9%), Tharu (25.4%), Nepali (16.1%), Baitadeli (5.2%), others (15.4%)
- Major highways
- Mahendra Highway
- Website
- ddckanchanpur .gov .np
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Nepal
- Country
- Nepal
- Located in
- Sudurpashchim Province
- Capital
- Bhimdatta
- Population
- 513757
- Area
- 1610
- Official website
- ddckanchanpur.gov.np
- Households
- 111217
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- Kanchanpur District
- male population
- 240686
- female population
- 273071
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Encyclopedic overview
Kanchanpur District (Nepali: कञ्चनपुर जिल्ला [ˈkʌnt͡sʌnpur] ), a part of Sudurpashchim Province in the Terai plain, is one of seventy-seven districts of Nepal. The district, with Bhimdatta as its district headquarters, covers an area of 1,610 square kilometres (620 sq mi) and had a population of 134,868 in 2001 and 171,304 in 2011. It is located in south-western of Nepal. It is bordered by Kailali district in the east, Dadeldhura district in the north and with India in the south and west.
Before the reunification of Nepal by Gorkha King Prithvi Narayan Shah, this district was part of the Doti Kingdom. Nepal lost it to the East India Company after the Anglo-Nepalese war (1814–1816). Then the Kingdom of Nepal and the East India Company followed by territorial concessions of Sugauli Treaty. Later on after the treaty of 1860, Nepal recovered this land along with Kailali, Banke and Bardiya. Its first headquarters was Belauri Municipality, and the current headquarter, Mahendranagr, was declared in 2019 B.S.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kanchanpur District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.