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These regions were as below:: Eastern Development Region, Central Development Region, Western Development Region, Far-Western Development region. The three regions were: Himalyan region consisting of 21 districts. Hilly region consisting of 35 districts. Terai region consisting of 21 districts from east to west.
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.
In 1962, all Kshetras were dissolved and the country was restructured into 75 development districts; those districts were further grouped into 14 zones. [2] In 1972, all 14 zones were grouped into 4 development regions; later in 1981, they were rearranged into the following 5 development regions. Eastern Development Region; Central Development ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Former development regions of Nepal. ... (by UN Method) of regions in Nepal since 1990. [2] Region HDI 1990 ...
Download as PDF; Printable version ... This is a list of capital cities of Nepal and its current and former provinces, and ... Former capital [2] Sub-national ...
Before 2015, instead of provinces, Nepal was divided into developmental regions and administrative zones. Fulfilling the requirement of the new constitution of Nepal in 2015, all old municipalities and villages (which were more than 3900 in number) were restructured into 753 new municipalities and rural municipalities.
Subsequently, he divided Nepal into 4 Development Regions in 1972: Eastern, Central, Western and Far Western. Since the Far Western Development Region became too large in size, it was further divided by creating the Mid-Western Development Region in 1981. Mid-western Development Region was created out of Karnali, Rapti and Bheri zones.
The High mountain region has 12,062 km 2 of natural water bodies, snow/glaciers and 13,105 km 2 barren areas. Forests 25.4% of Nepal's land area, or about 36,360 km 2 (14,039 sq mi) is covered with forest according to FAO figures from 2005.