Butwal
| Butwal upmahānagarpālikā बुटवल उपमहानगरपालिका Butwal |
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| Coordinates | 27 ° 42 ′ N , 83 ° 27 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Nepal | ||
| Province No. 5 | |||
| District | Rupandehi | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | NP-P5 | ||
| height | 140 m | ||
| surface | 101.5 km² | ||
| Residents | 138,742 (2011) | ||
| density | 1,366.9 Ew. / km² | ||
| founding | 1959 | ||
| Website | www.butwalmun.gov.np | ||
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| Chief Executive Officer | Dhurba Bahadur Khadka (September 2015) | ||
| City law 2nd order 22 wards |
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Butwal is a city with 2nd order municipal rights in southern Nepal .
Butwal is the administrative seat of Rupandehi District . The city is located in the Terai at the foot of the Himalayas at an altitude of 127- 665 m . It is located approx. 240 km west of Kathmandu at the intersection of two important national roads, the Siddhartha Rajmarg from India to Pokhara and the Mahendra Rajmarg , the great east-west connection. Butwal lies on the banks of the Tinau . In 2014, the two neighboring Village Development Committees Semlar and Motipur were incorporated. The urban area now covers 101.5 km².
Residents
At the 2011 census, the city of Butwal had 138,742 inhabitants (68,288 male) in 34,097 households.
Web links
Commons : Butwal - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ^ National Geographic Information Infrastructure Program, Index of Geographical names of Nepal 2007 (p. 5). ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 87 kB)
- ↑ Municipal Association of Nepal (MuAN) ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ National Population and Housing Census 2011 (PDF; 2.1 MB) Central Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original on July 31, 2013.
