Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Metropolitan city [3] Janakpur: Madhesh Province: Sub-metropolitan city [4] Hetauda: Bagmati Province: Sub-metropolitan city [5] Pokhara: Gandaki Province: Metropolitan city [6] Deukhuri: Lumbini Province: Planned city [7] Birendranagar: Karnali Province: Municipality [8] Godawari: Sudurpashchim Province: Municipality [9]
Each district has local units. Local level bodies in Nepal include six metropolises, 11 sub-metropolises, 276 municipal councils and 460 village councils. [3] The current system of seven provinces replaced an earlier system where Nepal was divided into 14 administrative zones which were grouped into five development regions.
Along with other major criteria as mentioned in Local Governance Act 2017 of Nepal, the number of population to be considered as the municipality: the minimum population in mountainous district should be 10,000 while hilly districts, inner terai districts, terai districts, and Kathmandu valley should include forty thousand, fifty thousand, seventy thousand and one hundred thousand respectively.
The 14 administrative zones were grouped into five development regions (Nepali: विकास क्षेत्र; vikās kṣetra). Each district was headed by a chief district officer (CDO), who was responsible for maintaining law and order and coordinating the work of field agencies of the various government ministries.
A topographic map of Nepal. Nepal is of roughly trapezoidal shape, about 800 kilometres (500 mi) long and 200 kilometres (120 mi) wide, with an area of 147,516 km 2 (56,956 sq mi). It lies between latitudes 26° and 31°N, and longitudes 80° and 89°E.
The following chart lists countries and dependencies along with their capital cities, in English and non-English official language(s). In bold: internationally recognized sovereign states. The 193 member states of the United Nations (UN) Vatican City (administered by the Holy See, a UN observer state), which is generally recognized as a ...
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more
Nepal-regions-map.png Licensing This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International , 3.0 Unported , 2.5 Generic , 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license.